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Hipsters will get a chance to start your Halloween early this year with Crying Nut, No Brain, Windy City, Achime, Cheez Stereo, Third Stone and Chiva Sound at Blue Spirit in Hongdae, Seoul. Doors open at 9pm and admission in w15,000 at the door. The party goes all night.

Sunshine State is from Toronto and their pop-acoustic sound and quirky narratives are quickly earning them fans in Canada, the US, UK, and Japan. Band members include, Aleza (vocals) and veteran Canadian musician, James Bryan (guitar/producer). James is a former member of The Philosopher Kings and Prozzak and is an award winning producer and songwriter who has worked with an long list of musicians, including Nelly Furtado, Fefe Dobson and Divine Brown. A few years ago, James was looking  for a different kind of voice to use on his solo album, Beautiful World (2005), and was blown away when his long-time friend Aleza sang for it.  The two took the album across Canada and started writing Sunshine State songs along the way.

Sunshine State’s self-titled debut album was released in May 2007 and since then they have been described as a “brilliant live show.” We talked with them about this, coming to Korea, and “Drug Dealer” – the song everyone is curious about. (more…)

This weekend Club Spot in Hongdae, Seoul will host 24 hours of punk rock from Korea and Japan. Part One starts at 5pm with Japanese Oi Punk skinheads Booted Cocks, Raise A Flag, 100 Hooligans and The Tabloid Play. w15000 at the door. Part Two, from 11pm until 6am, has over a dozen Korean punk bands including Crying Nut and No Brain. w10000 at the door.
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Presenting the South Mountain Jazz Orchestra at the Welcome Post.

As mentioned in this month’s schedule, the 6th annual Jarasum Jazz Festival was one of the better jazz performances I’ve seen in person. A few flaws kept it from being an even better show, but it’s an event I’ll be looking for next year when October rolls around again. (more…)

Seoul’s own electro band Swingset Committee are set to join Dairyland Youth in a tour across Korea and Japan this November. Swingset Committee is the newest member of the Minneapolis indie label Catlick Records. The Youth in Asia Tour will hit all three of Korea’s major cities: Nov. 6 Club FF in Seoul, Nov. 7 in Daegu at Club That and Nov. 8 in Busan at Vinyl Underground. The tour then heads to Japan to tour across the country from Nov. 9-15

Hongdae’s Kingston Rudieska join forces with Melbourne ska-jazz octet Skazz on Oct. 11th at Club Ta in Hongdae. Doors open at 5 and tickets are w20000 Skazz was scheduled to perform at the Ulsan Music Festival that has since been cancelled.
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In a scene rife with cover bands it’s a breath of fresh air to encounter a Westerner band with a sound of their own. Yet Ssighborggggg (that’s not a typo) are more than a breath of fresh air, in fact they’re more like a breath of Martian air: A bizarre sound clash of beautiful earl bleeding synth lines, drum loops of unsettling off beats, and mutant guitar riffs that would give Steve Vai a headache. Their live show is more of an experience that anything else, with two masked individuals almost completely ignoring the audience and refusing to interact in anyway, instead engrossed in working through the intricate songs. (more…)