Posted on 14 August 2010. Tags: Down Up Down, IndiefulROK, Kim Doo Soo, Kinzli, Kinzli & the Kilowatts, Korean indie, Korean indie music, Korean music

Since a couple of weeks back I’ve been quite fond of Kinzli & the kiloWatts. I liked Kinzli’s music from the start, was happy to find Kim Doo Soo first in the list of her influences, and even happier to find that she likes scientific calculators with the fraction to decimal function. I’ve listened a lot to her sweet and lovely songs since then, and though the album info (see “about me” section at MySpace) offered a generous amount of information I still wanted to ask her a few questions.
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Posted on 28 July 2010. Tags: festivals, Guckkasten, Incheon Dreampark, Korean indie, LCD Soundsystem, Pentaport, The Koxx, 펜타포트 락 페스티벌
Korea’s increasingly crowded festival season kicked off this weekend with the granddaddy of them all, Pentaport.

With Jisan taking place next week — and with the prospect of two festivals in two consecutive weekends not as appealing as it would have been a few years ago — I hadn’t originally planned on going to Pentaport this year. But when I found out that LCD Soundsystem were on the bill on Saturday, my resolve gradually weakened until all it took was a gentle prod from a friend to convince me to go. In the end, a nebulous group of between three and six of us were there, with a bunch of other people I knew in attendance as well.
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