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Indieful ROK’s favorite contestant on MBC’s Star Audition has been doing well since our interview. In the Friday episode, Sweet Guerillaz vocalist Yang Jung-mo sang the Lim Jae Bum and Park Hyun Jung duet 사랑보다 깊은 상처 together with fellow contestant Baek Chung-gang. Because of their efforts, both were picked to be mentored by Boohwal’s legendary guitarist Kim Tae Won, who is a judge on the show.

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Two weeks ago, on Christmas Eve, word of some guy wearing a GMC Records T-shirt on TV started spreading on Twitter. Turns out it was Yang Jungmo, the vocalist of Sweet Guerillaz, showing off some very impressive vocal skills in MBC’s new idol-making show Star Audition: 위대한 탄생. I watched his YouTube clip from the show several times, then asked GMC founder Kyono if perhaps he could help me ask Yang Jung-mo a few questions.

Could you please start by introducing yourself?

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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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