Indie Band Names' Meaning Part 2

This was quite confusing and at times I thought making a part 2 had been a mistake, some parts turned out quite weird.

This time: Dear Cloud, Yellow Monsters, The KOXX, Galaxy Express, Monni, Guckkasten, Sister's Barbershop, No Reply and Gajami Boys

T/N: Names are again romanised on a whim. Cookies for people who can give me romanised name for 가자미소년단. Sorry for weirdness.

K-League dedicated album

For the '2010 FC Barcelona – K-League All Star match' the K-League Supporter Alliance decided to make an album called 'INTO THE K-LEAGUE'. 6 month later the album has been produced by Rokstarr Music and published on August 4, the day of the match. 13 bands (No. 1 Korean, Super Kidd, Sugar Donut, No Brain, Galaxy Express, Yellow Monsters, Lunatic, The Strikers, Yellow Puffer, Napoleon Dynamite, GoGo Star, Sweet Revenge, GoGo Boys) participated with songs about friendship and dedication to the K-league. The intro 'Here is the Glory' by No Brain's drummer Hwang Hyun Sung was also made the entrance song for the K-League All Star players and decided to be used as the 'K-League Anthem'.

The 13 songs plus intro can be downloaded for free at the K-league website here.(continues on page 2).

[New Albums] Musicians at work

Some news about albums I caught on.

On her 2009 travel in Hokkaido Oh Ji Eun started thinking about making more lively songs. She gathered her session musicians Jung Joon Yeob(guitar), Park Min Soo(keyboard), Park Soon Chul(bass) and Shin Dong Hoon(drum) and formed 'Oh Ji Eun and The Wolves' (after 'Oh Ji Eun and The Blockheads' was disliked by the members). Their digital single '미리듣기' came out yesterday, July 21, and consist of the title song '너에게 그만 빠져들 방법을 이제 가르쳐줘타이틀곡' and '아저씨 미워요'. They also have an official homepage.

New team Yellow Monsters decided their first album release to be June 22. The self-titled album consists of 10 tracks.

After Yozo postponed the release of her album due performances, cf, broadcasts etc, she's working now on it next to her radio broadcast. If everything goes well, it may be released beginning of next month already.

Super Kidd are coming back with their 3rd album. No release date yet, an event will take place at Kubrick in The Forest August 1. They'll talk about their 3rd album and it will probably be released after it.

Also Jaejoo Boys are at finishing their 4th album (mixing process is said to be finished) and it will be released after Jisan Valley Rock Festival.

After 3 years Daybreak will release their 2nd album. It is called 'Aurora' and has already a full track list and title song here. There is also a full concert planned for August 29 at Sang Sang Madang.

Han Hee Jung started the recording of her new single. It will probably consist of 5 tracks and be released around October.

Casker is also working on a new single, seem to have some troubles and a lot of worries though. For the first time, they take external lyrics and work in an outside studio for a longer time.

[New Albums] What’s Coming Up?

After 5 years Modern Rock Band Monni brought out their 2nd album yesterday, Monday June 14. The album has been produced by Jaurim’s Guitarist Lee Sun Gyu and mixed by Bassist Kim Jin Man. The title song of the album ‘This Moment’ is 나를 떠나가던 and there is also a music video for it. At the same time of the release, their official homepage www.monni.co.kr has been opened.


Today, Tuesday, June 15, the KOXX’ very first EP ‘Enter’ will be released. Happy Robot gave some head ups on the band and the tracks. The Electro Rock band started through at the 2009 Hello Rookie and their average age is 21,5. They gathered around drummer Shin Sa Ron at the end of 2008 and before they had the current line-up, vocal Lee Hyun Song was also drummer and Synthesizer Shaun was also a guitarist. They appeared on festivals and performed in small and big clubs and received attention not just from national clubbers but also foreigners with their Daft Punk medley.
The first song on their EP ‘531’ is an intro to the 2nd track ‘ACDC’, 531 being the number of days from their forming to their first mini album release. ‘ACDC’ has nothing to do with the band AC/DC, it is simply the name of notes, like ‘Ra Do Re Do’. The next song ‘Over and Over’ is a new song they didn’t perform that often. Under the members it’s called ‘super song’; it’s based on garage rock, but has a relatively popish sound. ‘A Fool Moon Night’ is a ballad; the members explain it is best to listen to during a jogging in a bright moon night. The song ‘얼음땡’ is a love song to the expression ‘Koxx’. The last song ‘Trouble Maker’ is a danceable number that represents the Koxx with its dynamic sound and at every performance it made the audience enjoy to their limits.


A lot of you may already know, Zitten releases their new EP ‘Wonderland’ June 17. Yesterday, June 14, Pastelmusic released next to a two part reality video, a music video for ‘TV Show’. A live version of this song will be posted June 22.
After Yoon Hyung Ro came back from army last autumn, they worked on the EP and it looked like they’d be finished in winter, but Sung Yong Uk got sick and it had to be delayed an uncertain time. Yong Uk recovered and they finished the work. The album art will be done by Japanese illustrator Marumiyan, who already worked for the 1st album.


Naru’s 2nd album ‘Yet’ is set to be released on June 29th. A track list and cover have been revealed. You can also listen to 3 previews on Hyang. ‘Yet’ has, compared to the first album, more electronic elements. So is for example the interlude ‘Spring!!!’ that can be compared to ‘Take Off’ a more electronic arrangement.
Even though there have been made plenty of jacket photos, it is still not sure if there will be actually photos in it or if the album will consist like the first one just of Naru’s own drawings.

A new formation called ‘Yellow Monkeys’ has been brought up, consisting of GumX’ Young Won as lead vocal and guitar, Delispice’s Choi Jae Hyuk as drummer and vocal, and My Aunt Mary’s Han Jin Yeong as bass and vocal. Han Jinyeong wrote on his personal blog ‘see you in July’ and some time ago he posted that recording has been finished. They have performed already at the Time To Rock Festival though. Their homepage is yellowmonsters.net


Delight’s dk gives his fans a new mistery announcing that Delight is working on something(a new record) called ‘절름발이’(cripple)