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Realizing I will never have the time to do something useful with all those Korean indie music-related posts I’ve starred in Google Reader over the last few months, here’s a selection of links from the past couple of days:

Malaysia-based entertainment site Voize has provided its audience with an introduction to The Koxx: Meet the Koxx. In case you have yet to check out the electro/rock band yourself, it just so happens that they have 5 out of 6 songs from their first mini album available on MySpace.

Over at Violet Sweets, wassereis has started a new post series called “infocorner” where I’m sure there’ll be plenty of interesting things to learn on selected artists. First up is 10cm: [Infocorner] 10cm.

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A version of this interview was published in May 2010’s issue of the Groove magazine. All photos in the printed article are Aaron Brown’s; all photos below are my own.

With little warning, the synth keyboard, guitar, and drum trio halted their sound check and listened. “Can you check that feedback? It might be a bad cord.” The venue staff went silent as the noise played on. The curious part was this feedback had a melody – not like the tune they were playing, but something strangely similar. A off-kilter foreshadowing of the performance, or just a weird glitch? Turns out it was the latter, but still an unusual moment with an unusual band.
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