Indie Band Names' Meaning

Yesterday, I was searching for Achime(as searching with this name one finds everything but the band), I stumbled upon an article explaining the meanings of names from indie bands. Probably interesting to know that most of them don't have a real meaning, I did a quick translation.

This had been called 'part 1', so I hope there comes more. The first part contains Gloomy Monkeys, Soran, Daybreak, Munk, Neon Bunny, Broccoli you too, Oyster Boys and Joa Band. Please excuse me if there are names romanized wrong, I write them simply as I feel like.

The KOXX, No Reply and 2 new artists at Happy Robot's

Happy Robot posted some news on their blog today, also mentioning a new albums from No Reply and the KOXX. No Reply plans on gather new, unpublished songs and make an album out of them. If I understood it right, it's supposed to be released before their performance at the Olympic Hall in July.

The KOXX will release their first full-length album with the title 'Access OK'. It's supposed to come out in the beginning of June.

Happy Robot has also signed two new bands, Soran and Lala Sweet.

Soran working on their first EP

Modern Rock/Pop group Soran, which has been once introduced in Janet's Videophile at Indieful ROK, are working on their first EP. The songs that will be recorded for it are 잊어야해, 타임머신(feat. Monni's Taewoo), 가을목이, 그때는 왜 몰랐을까, 이렇게 행복해, 너에게(feat. 10cm's Jung Yeol, Serengeti's Soo Wan). They will have an album release concert August 6. You can watch a kind of music video of 너에게(feat. Jung Yeol, Soo Wan) here and listen to 잊어야해 here (not sure if this is already the album version though).

Band Soran was formed in autumn 2009. Even though it's a young band, every member has its experiences. Vocal Go Young Bae studied Classic composing at Chugye University For The Arts, guitarist Jun Hoon is currently guitarist at Lee Seung Hwan's band and active as a session artist for the musical 'Legally Blonde', bassist Seo Myun Ho is active as session artist for Beautiful Days and drummer Pyun Hyu Il won the first prize at 'Seoul Drum Festival Drum Contest' in his High school time.