Speed's Shin Jong-guk to be Guest Vocal during CoreMagaZinE's Performance

CoreMagaZinE will be performing among other amazing acts at Rolling Hall's 21st anniversary concert on Februar 21st. They will be supported by K-Pop group Speed's Lead Vocal Shin Jong-guk, who posted a selfie with the band and said:

제가 이번에 평소에 정말 좋아하고 친하게 지내는 대한민국 대표 신스팝밴드 '코어매거진' 형님들과 이번 홍대 롤링홀 21주년 기념 공연에 객원보컬로써 같이 무대에 서게 되었습니다! 너무나도 기쁘고 뜻깊습니다^_^ 이번달 2월 21일 오후 5시부터 홍대 롤링홀에서 공연하구요! 티켓예매는 '인터파크'에서 하실 수 있습니다. 많이 찾아주셔서 같이 즐기고 가길 바라겠습니다! 감사하겠습니다! 정말 멋진 음악들려드릴게요. @ryu_coremagazine @coremagazine_dr @bandcoremagazine @guya88 #홍대 #공연 #롤링홀 #홍대롤링홀 #홍대롤링홀21주년 #밴드 #korea #pop #rock #신스팝 #코어매거진 #coremagazine #신종국

Ein von Jongkook Shin (@jongkookshin) gepostetes Foto am 12. Feb 2016 um 4:05 Uhr

"It happened that I will be standing with South Korea's representative Synth Band 'CoreMagaZinE', whom I usually really like and am close with, on the stage of Hongdae Rolling Hall's 21st Anniversary Concert as a guest vocalist! I'm so happy and it's so meaningful to me^_^ We perform this month, February 21st starting 5pm! You can preorder tickets at Interpark. I hope that many of you come and we can go have fun together! Thank you very much! We'r going to play really amazing music for you."*

*roughly translated

Speed gains fans with their startling acrobatics in their "Don't Tease Me!" choreography or more recently with their Heelies-incorporating choreo for "What U".

10cm's Americano doesn't die

10cm and Ha Ji Won acted together in a cf for coffee where 10cm's hit song 'Americano' had been rearranged with Ha Ji Won joining them. Even though it was their first time appearing in a cm, 10cm performed without a NG.

The Behind Story of Lee Juck’s ‘Laundry’

Lee Juck’s song ‘Laundry’ from his upcoming 4th album was made public on several music sites. It shot up to high ranks and even reached rank 1 on a popular music site the time it has been published.

The song talks about ‘laundering’ his hurting heart, not knowing how to deal with the hollowness after a separation. It starts off with “I have to do the laundry. It may be raining in the afternoon.”

Now he revealed the story to that introduction part: “When I was talking with Lucid Fall on the phone, I asked ‘What are you going to do now?’ ‘I want to do the laundry. Did they say it will rain in the afternoon?’ That moment suddenly. ‘Can I write that down as lyrics?’”

His 4th album will have its release September 30 and be called ‘사랑’(Love). It will consist of 10 songs and the title song will be ‘그대랑’(With You).

src: Lee Juck's Twitter, Arts News

No Reply's Keyboard Sungwan gets a guitar

During their concert Road 4, No Reply's Sungwan and Wookjae changed instruments on request of the fans. Even though Sungwan said he don't like to play guitar, because his fingers hurt, he just bought his very first electric guitar.
He wanted a guitar for simple recording, but after all his desires grew and he spent more money than he thought he would. Nevertheless he has no regrets about it, he loves his guitar and its icetea color.



No Reply is currently working on their 2nd album that is supposed to have it's release September 9. Besides that Sungwan is appearing in Lee Seung Hwan's music video '완벽한 추억'. He composed the song himself and it is the 2nd(or new?) titlesong from Lee Seung Hwan's 10th album.

[Naru] New Infos on 2nd Album

Happy Robot twittert new infos about Naru's 2nd album.

Naru's 2nd album will be out soon and it contains 11 songs, under it a huge song that goes over 8 minutes. The title of the album will be 'YET'.
Naru performed the song 'YET' at Soundholic's 'Holiday - Promenade' at February 7. A video of that has been posted at the Happy Robots blog, but it has been taken down again to raise the anticipation for the 2nd album.

[Phonebooth] Vocal Laser to Stop Smoking?

Laser, Vocal of Phonebooth, wrote February 17 that he stopped smoking. But already after 15 hours, he wrote, he feels like dieing. One day later, February 18 about 7pm he gives up.

Seems giving up on smoking is quite hard and it is questionable if he will try it again.

Stay tuned, Violet Sweets keeps you up on this serious issue.

[Serengeti] Soowan in a Documentary About Pama

In an epiode of the series '30 Min Docu' on 19.September 2009 Soowan had an appearance. The Episode was about pama hair and of course Soowan had to be there too.

[No Reply] Narration job from 2008

2nd July 2008 the spanish group La Casa Azul, lead by producer Guille Milkyway, releases their Album 'La Revolucion Sexual'. The title song with the same name is a spanish song with japanese narration. The album contains several versions of this song, also a korean one with Yeongene on vocals. The japanese narration has been replaced by a korean one by No Reply's Jung Wook Jae.


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His voice can be heard around 1:38 and 2:46.

[Dr. Core 911] New Bassist?

- Not really.

At a broadcast of SBS' 'Bae Ki Wan, Choi Young Ah, Jo Hyung Gi's Nice Morning' from 30th November actress Lee Ji Ah was shown on the concert of Dr. Core 911 on 29th November. That day she said that when she was little she also played 'a bit' bass and went up to the stage, playing. Dr. Core 911 Leader and bassist Shogi said about the surprising performance "When she first said she'll do it I thought she would do just a bit, but she played a lot. She played very well" he didn't spare with compliments.

Lee Ji Ah is mostly known through Dramas like 'Style' and 'Beethoven Virus'.

[Naru] The Name 'Naru'

As I was asking myself how Naru actually came to his name, as it is usually translated with 'ferry, ship', I found accidentally an article (from may 2008) where he explains it.

"You ask why 'Naru'? Friends called me 'Kkangnaru'. When I wrote on the Ssamji Sound Festival Board, I left without thinking the 'kkang*', which is the last name, away and wrote as 'Naru'. At the end this became my name. It really has no meaning. It's a bit boring, isn't it?"

* His real name is Kang Kyung Tae, Kang being the last name.

When Naru was in a school band in High School, playing the guitar wasn't more than a hobby, but listening to friends he participated at the Ssamji Sound Festival (which takes place every year), uploading two of his home made songs (meaning he did all - guitar, bass, drums, singing). Even though he didn't came through, Happy Robots who heard his songs was calling him and taking him into their 'family'.

Next question that has to be solved: How did the friends come to call him 'Kkangnaru'.

[No Reply] Fashonista Gwon Sungwan

Now it has been finallyy revealed. Sungwan is a fashion leader.

As fashionista Sungwan points out the importance of the socks. The socks are the main point of every outfit, so he carefully chooses his socks together with No Reply's stylist before every performance, preferably fitting to his jacket for a perfect look.

Fashion Leader Gwon Sungwan!

Fashion's finish: socks?!

socklove. Sungwan!
This day ... fitting to the color of the jacket,
so you chose these socks ^^

(from Sweet Sorrow's Tenten Club)

[No Reply] Little View on 2010

After finsihing their Encore Concert 'Road 4' successful, No Reply will hold a 'Final Road' concert end of February next year. This will be the last performance for their first album, right after that they will go over working on their 2nd album which is planned to be released around May~June.

During that time Sungwan helps one of his Seonbaes with composing for his new album and Wookjae becomes a producer for a newcomer for the new Mintpaper compilation LIFE.

[Pony] Activities

For People who were curious if Flowerboy Band Pony was planning something new, they're not.

Their Fancafe announced that they will be active performing until the end of 2009 and starting January the members will follow their own activities, thus Pony will take a break starting next year.

[Apollo18] Violet Recordings to Start Soon

Apollo18 Bassist Kim Dae In wrote in the fancafe that despite the cold weather Apollo18 did shoot their teaser video for Violet in a tree garden.
The mastering for Red+ started on monday and recording for Violet will start soon after that.

They are busy but everything procedes well and it seems they can do everything as planned.

[TUNE] And His Tattoo

Tune posted at his blog the history about his tattoo.

Right after Tune's logo was finished he decided to have a tattoo of "TUNE" and his first album title "TUNE your mind". But since it is the first time he has a tattoo, he was also worried ... for 0.03seconds.

Before getting a tattoo he consulted musicians around him that already have one and mentioned that especially the thoughtful and careful advices from Yozoh were good.
The artdirector who made the logo together with TUNE and the tattoo artist sat together planning out the exact size needed and to avoid any errors during tattooing. Even though a lot of people told that it hurts, Tune said that it was just a pricking, not huting at all. The only thing was the tension during the 1 hour job.
Thinking about what he should call his second album, people around him are starting to ask if he will have a tattoo everytime he releases a new album. He said that if he would do it, he would be all over album titles when he's 50 then and no space for movie mementos...

He also warns before making a tattoo, to think carfully about it, since it stays for a very long time, and to not have regrets later.
For people who think "Tattoo=scary guy", he wants them to see it as a kind of art, like hip hop and rock music, like graffiti or videos are, and wants them to recognize the diversity of tattoos.

Actually TUNE wanted the photo with his fist and the tattoo to be a jacket photo, but even though it wasn't used as that, he's comfortable with showing at the beginning and end of a performance.

On another note, his third music video for '달려가잖아' is in work and is probably going to be released in January next year.

[No Reply] Sungwan's New Hair

Sungwan complained about his hair during No Reply's 3rd concert. His front hair has been cut too short and he said that he will never trust the person who cuted it again. See it in one of the photos that were uploaded in their fancafe here.

A casual remark from Wookjae revealed then that Sungwan's hair wasn't cutted, he cutted it himself. Sungwan's words to Wookjae contained a several hatred from this point on and the talk about hair went through the whole concert.

The concert went successfully and beside No Reply's family and friends also collegues like Jung Soo Wan (Serengeti), Naru, Kim Dong Ryul and others visited the concert. Naru was also added as guest for the upcoming encore performance 'Road 4' that procedes 26~27th December.

[Happy Robot] New Artists for 2010

Posting new informations on the Happy Robot Blog, it has been said that 2010 2 new Teams will come to Happy Robot. Both of them are said to be fully male. Probably not being able to hold it back, exact informations may already follow at the end of December.
Hints have been posted in form of little, photoshopped photos. Eagle-eyed(?) fans recognized easily that the second group is Daybreak, who also participated at the Hello Rookie this year.

It also implies a project group, with one member out of each team. Maybe a soccer team. A male synchronized swimming team would work too... that's what the entry says...

[W&Whale] Marriage

W&Whale member Kim Sang Hoon(34) will marry on 12th December.

He will marry the 4 years younger ex-stylist of W&Whale in Kangnam at 1pm.
Who will join the meal hasn't been decided yet but marriage photos have been revealed.




Congratulations~
(He normally plays the Drums, sometimes also Bass and Guitar)

[Phonebooth] 2 New Songs

Phonebooth had their first concert 13th November where they also played two other songs from their 2nd album. Over at R.O.K Scene you can watch very well done fancams of 'Glassdoor' and 'Revolver'.

No release date for the 2nd album yet.

[Phonebooth] Making Pizza for their Fans

After 4 years Phonebooth had their first concert on November 13th.
To thank the fans they made pizza with the help of Pizza Hut.



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