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Mini-Interview with SALTNPAPER
MYK may be best known for his work in hip-hop, but his songwriting skills extend farther. A couple of weeks ago he released his first mini album under the alias SALTNPAPER offering more of a modern rock oriented sound. Already from the brief samples in the the trailer it was clear that the SALTNPAPER mini ...
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Interview with Gate Flowers
With Galaxy Express, Apollo 18, and Goonam heading to England and Wales for Korea Rocks, I realized that we had never talked to Gate Flowers before. So before the tour starts next week, I had a chance to send some questions over to the band and Seungshik Yeom, guitarist, was able to take the time ...
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Slide Rosa : Ticket to Ride
I’ll be honest. I really enjoy when labels reach out about their music because it makes discovery a lot easier. And considering I like listening to almost any genre, giving an album a chance takes no work. Slide Rosa is on Dada Music and she plays mellow acoustic folk music. It’s a really laid back ...
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Rooster Ride (루스터 라이드) : 고생 끝에 Rock이 온다
I didn’t know it at the time, but a member of Rooster Ride stopped by when I was filming Yellow Monsters 3rd Anniversary show. Rooster Ride’s style is pop rock. It comes across as direct and high energy. There’s really nothing amazing in the style of music that they chose, but their energy makes every ...
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Music Alliance Pact : May 2013
It’s the middle of May and with that the Music Alliance Pact stands ready to offer yet another fine selection of songs from all over the world. As of this month we no longer have The Guardian among us and instead welcome Drowned in Sound as the new representative of England. From South Korea we’re ...
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가게 : Gage
I didn’t know at the time, but I was able to attend an early practice of Gage before the group decided to form beyond a project band for Salon Badabie’s second anniversary. With members of Apollo 18, The Quip, now disbanded Midnight Smoking Drive, and others; Gage is an interesting mixture of musicians who are ...
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거츠 (Gutz) : Push
Gutz is another band introduced to me by Anna from Korean Rock is Real. I think I may have heard of the name once, but never looked into the music. Seeing them live changed my mind. The bands style of music is mainly rock with a bit of 70s attitude in the performance. Push was ...
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Oh Hee Jung (오희정) : Everybody Here Wants You Back
I follow a lot of Korean musicians on various social networks. I know Oh Hee Jung more from Instagram and Twitter than any other source. She was also part of the band 뷰티풀 데이즈 (Beautiful Days), who I listened to a while back, but it sounds like they disbanded. She used Tumblbug to fund her ...
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We Are The Night : We Are The Night
I’m a big fan of Rocket Diary, but when hearing that the band would be releasing an album as We Are The Night, I was much more skeptical. Another band using electro-pop and synth to their music could remind me of a lot of other bands. Given Rocket Diary’s history in pop punk, I was ...
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SALTNPAPER : SALTNPAPER
I’m a little familiar with MYK, mainly through his hip-hop work. After Anna’s mini-interview with him and his new project SALTNPAPER, I was really interested in hearing what this sound would be. If you ever heard MYK’s work before, you’re going to be very surprised at his songs for SALTNPAPER. Essentially, it’s an entirely new ...
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윌리암스타운 (Williams Town) : 중독
Williams Town is a newer band that was introduced to me by Anna from Korean Rock is Real when we met for the first time. I wasn’t able to watch the band live, but was able to get a feel for band dynamics over drinks. While I called the night early, I was very interested ...
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24Hours : Party People
I’ve been keeping an eye on 24Hours since they were introduced to me. After listening to their single, Blackhole, and finding out they were in the process of recording their new album, I was very excited to find out that it would be released during my trip to Seoul. I wasn’t able to listen to ...
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Support Your Music 2013 : Second Circuit Finalists
Mint Paper and Daum Music continues their Support Your Music 2013 initiative. Manggakhwa came out the winner among the first circuit finalists and ended up with 187.4% of the funds he needed to record his second full-length album. Auditions to become the second artist of the year started in April with online voting for the ...
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Romantiqua (로만티카) : When and Where
I didn’t know much when I first heard of Romantiqua, besides constantly spelling their name wrong, I only knew that they were signed to Gogol Sound, started by Apollo 18. The description of “psychedelic postrock music” is one that is very interesting to me especially considering how post-rock music from Seoul is becoming more interesting ...
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Jinbo the Superfreak (진보) : Fantasy
I don’t know much about Jinbo, though I did see his music video for “Cops Come Knock.” I assumed that Jinbo is a hip-hop artist, but a lot of the first impression sounds much more like R&B. It’s a little different because the instrumentals that Jinbo uses have a different sound from other performers. It ...
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How to Contribute to Tumblbug Crowdfunding Projects
The concept of crowdfunding is nothing new, but with the Internet gathering funds from a large number of people for some particular venture has become easier than ever. As the number of platforms grow, so does the number of users. The market has expanded plenty over the last couple of years internationally as well as ...