20 hand-picked creatives have two minutes to tackle a slightly ethereal question. Join 20x2 as we attempt to discover “What Changed?”……

Presented by: K-Pop Night Out

Remember when hardcore bands sang about important topics and cared about what they said? Well, some still do and, sometimes, you have to look around the world to find them. THE GEEKS is that band. Prior to 2005, THE GEEK…

Presented by: K-Pop Night Out

Since his 1994 debut as part of the pioneering Korean modern rock duo, U & Me Blue, New York City native, Yi Sung Yol, has soared as a solo artist by making his name and making his mark as one of Korea’s top modern rock …

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Biography Indie rock band Guckkasten has been lauded as one of the most innovative bands in Korea due to their amazing array of sounds: rock with a touch of heavy metal, opera, synth and explosive vocals. What’s interes…

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Powered by raw vocals, razor guitars, and sharp suits, Korea's premier punk brigadiers < No Brain > have notched 3,000+ shows in over 15 years to stomp up K-Pop charts and march across Korean Music Award red carpets with…

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A legend in the 90s Korean indie scene, former Rainy Sun lead singer, Jeong Cha Sik, has transformed into a critically-acclaimed solo artist who channels his haunting ghost in the shell musings through a mesmerizing, mus…

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Award-winning trio Galaxy Express formed in 2006 in Seoul, South Korea and immediately began attracting attention with their tightly wound blend of garage rock, punk, and psychedelic sounds and explosive performances. …

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Biography Providing an electric sounding shock to the system of K-pop for the past couple of years has been music giant SM Entertainment’s f(x), a multi-national, all-female, quaking quintet. The name is a play on the m…

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Archie Pelago is a production and live performance trio based in Brooklyn, NY. Formed in late 2010, the trio of Hirshi (trumpet/DJ), Cosmo D (cello/Ableton) and Kroba (sax/Ableton) combine their varied backgrounds in ja…

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Blue Hawaii, Arbutus Records and many of their Montreal counter-parts all began with the same breath in early 2010. To date they’ve released an 8 song EP: in May of that year,Blooming Summer (Arbutus Records 2010) was re…

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Andy Stott made his debut for the Modern Love label in 2005 with the 'Replace EP' - a 4 track exposition of his uniquely slanted production style taking in Chi-Town and Motor City influences with an obtuse genetic code a…

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If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut “My Old School“ (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacatio…

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Richard Henry is a dj with an ear for beats from all over the globe. He's been collecting tunes since an early age from Flea Markets to local record stores in search of a different sound adding to his large record collec…

Hot Sugar makes thrilling, addictive electronic music out of sounds he generates from the world around him. That means there's some very weird, unusual and downright dangerous source material, but more on that later.……

Evy Jane is the project of Vancouver-based musicians Evelyn Mason and Jeremiah Klein. Drawing from UK bass, R&B, and psychedelia, the partnership yields beat-smart, hyper-textural pop. Both Mason and Klein have been i…

Jesse Boykins III is a singer / songwriter with a timeless sound. He is the creator of a new approach to music he calls “World Soul” in which he shares a point of view that crosses all genres, generations and cultures. …

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King Midas Sound, Techno Animal/Ice/God (with Justin Broadrick of Godflesh/Jesu), Razor X Productions (with The Rootsman & various M.C’s), Pressure, Ladybug, the man behind Pathological Records, compiler of various compi…

DJ Kentaro returns in August 2012 with his new album 'Contrast', his first since 2007's 'Enter'. One of the world's top turntabalists (receiving top marks and winning at the DMC's no less), 'Contrast' sees Kentaro reinfo…

Presented by: Japan Nite

Kaori Kawabuchi (Vocal/ Japanese sword performance) Shuji Yamagiri (Vocal/Guitar) Jack (Tsugaru-Syamisen) Daisuke Kaminaga (Shakuhachi) A band from Japan which creates an extremely original performance of beauty, p…

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The beginning of Pirates Canoe was when Sara, a Buddhist monk/mandolin player, happened to walk into a baseball bar in the middle of Kyoto, Japan. That’s where she met Kanako, carrying a fiddle case and drinking beer. Th…

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JOSY: the guiter-less-organ all girl band from Tokyo Mami : keyboard Non : bass Nanohana : drums Kumi : vocal/keyboard With an estatic love for the Doors and MGMT, these four girls first met each other at a …

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Band member vocal&guitar:watanabe satoshi Drums&chorus:iwanaka hideaki Bass&chorus:nishi tsukasa CD Release Mini Album[FIRING DEVICE] 2007/09/05 ON SALE Mini Album[Boost the Edge] 2009/03/11 ON SALE Single[スパイダ…

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Chihiro Yamazaki + Route 14 Band is the new-generation instrumental group fromed withRoute 14 Band, who have done many works on the music field as producing music and music events, and Chihiro Yamazaki a.k.a anna,who pla…

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Momo: Vocal Koharu: Accordion “Charan-po-rantan” means sloppy or irresponsible in Japanese, and obviously the name of this free-wheeling sister duo is a wordplay of the phrase. 19 year old vocalist, Momo, and 23 …

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Four Minutes 'Til Midnight is a unique funk/rock group comprised of members from Japan (Kenta Hayashi-guitar, Yusuke Ikegaya-bass) and the U.S. (Eli Taylor-vocals). The band was formed in Hollywood in 2005 when Kenta Ha…

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"Whoa. The Mannequin label is a relatively new one to me, but with Survive’s self-titled debut LP, they’ve set the mark pretty damn high. This album is full of synth-heavy soundtrack/horror sentiments, drifting from soun…

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Xeno and Oaklander are a minimal electronics girl/boy duo, and they are based in Brooklyn, NY. They began writing music and soundtracks in 2004. Miss Liz Wendelbo is French / Norwegian and Sean McBride is from Maryland. …

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The Soft Moon was never intended for the public's ears, but you found it, were drawn in by its danger, and insisted that others hear. Oakland's Luis Vasquez began the project in order to better know his own self. He'd ho…

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“I don’t think it’s possible for me to write in a major key,” says Katie Stelmanis, co-founder and lead singer of Toronto trio Austra. “I don’t know why. It doesn’t seem to factor in my brain.” It’s not like the longt…