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Swingz
Swingz is South Korean indie rock duo originally formed as a trio in Daegu, South Korea. They were featured in episode "Breaking Down Our Prejudice" of Arirang TV's program "Rock on Korea" in July 2013. In June 2013 Swingz collaborated on stage with another all-female indie rock band Rubber Duckie "Rubber Duckie" is a song written by Jeff Moss, arranged by Joe Raposo and originally sung by Jim Henson who performed it as the Muppet character Ernie on the television program ''Sesame Street''. The song is named after Ernie's toy, a rubb ... and formed project group "Walking After U". Members Current * Haein (guitar, vocals) * A-hyun (drums) Former * Misun (bass guitar, vocals) Discography Albums * ''Beginning Of Swingz'', October 2011 * ''Renewal'', September 2012 References *https://www.mk.co.kr/news/musics/5112507 External links Swingz in naver music {{Authority control South Korean indie rock groups South Korean all-female bands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubber Duckie (band)
Rubber Duckie is South Korean all-female indie rock band. The band was formed originally in 2004 in Bucheon, but went on hiatus a year later. The band returned to perform in Hongdae, Seoul in late 2009. They were featured on Arirang Radio's program "Music180 - Musician Search" in July 2010 and in the episode "Breaking Down Our Prejudice" of Arirang TV Arirang TV () is a South Korean international broadcaster owned and operated by Korea International Broadcasting Foundation. It broadcasts current news and programs offering political, economic, and cultural content from a Korean perspective t ...'s program "Rock on Korea" in July 2013. In June 2013 Rubber Duckie collaborated on stage with another all-female indie rock band Swingz and formed project group " Walking After U". Members Current * Jia (guitar, vocals, leader) * Sunny (drums, vocals) Former * Baemi (bass guitar, vocals) * Baeky (drums, vocals) Discography Singles * ''I Am A Single'', February 2010 * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking After U
Walking After U (Korean: 워킹애프터유) is a South Korean female rock band based in Seoul, South Korea. It was formed in 2014 as a merger of Rubber Duckie and Swingz. Members Current * Baek Haein 백해인 (lead vocals, guitar) * Seo Ahyeon "A-zzang" 서아현 (drums, backup vocals) * Jo Hangyum 조한겸 (bass) Former member * Bae Mihye "Baemi" 배미헤 (bass, backup vocals) * Song Jia 송지아 (guitar, backup vocals) * Cho Minyeong 조민영 (bass, backup vocals) * Kim Seonghee "Sunny" 김성희 (keyboard, backup vocals) History The band is a merger originating from a collaboration at the Girls' Rock Festival Season 6 between Rubber Duckie and Swingz. Rubber Duckie was led by technical guitarist Jia starting in the early 2000s, along with (then) drummer Sunny. Rubber Duckie had attained much recognition as a strong female rock group, and had released two singles and a full album. Swings was led by vocal and bassist Haein, along with drummer A- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daegu
Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level cities of South Korea, metropolitan city in the nation with over 2.3 million residents; and the second-largest city after Busan in the Yeongnam Regions of Korea, region in southeastern South Korea. Daegu and the surrounding North Gyeongsang Province are often referred to as Daegu-Gyeongbuk, with a total population of over 5 million. Daegu is located in south-eastern Korea about from the coast, near the Geumho River and its mainstream, Nakdong River in Gyeongsang Province. The Daegu basin is the central plain of the Yeongnam List of regions of Korea, region. In ancient times, the Daegu area was part of the proto-kingdom Jinhan. Subsequently, Daegu came under the control of the Silla Kingdom, which unified the Korean Peninsula. During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and the Sea of Japan to the east. Like North Korea, South Korea claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and List of islands of South Korea, adjacent islands. It has Demographics of South Korea, a population of about 52 million, of which half live in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, the List of largest cities, ninth most populous metropolitan area in the world; other major cities include Busan, Daegu, and Incheon. The Korean Peninsula was inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Gojoseon, Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early seventh century BC. From the mid first century BC, various Polity, polities consolidated into the rival Three Kingdoms of Korea, kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand in the early to mid-1980s. Although the term was originally used to describe rock music released through independent record labels, by the 1990s it became more widely associated with the music such bands produced. The sound of indie rock has its origins in the New Zealand Dunedin sound of the Chills, Tall Dwarfs, the Clean and the Verlaines, and early 1980s college rock radio stations who would frequently play jangle pop bands like the Smiths and R.E.M. The genre solidified itself during the mid–1980s with ''NME''s ''C86'' cassette in the United Kingdom and the underground success of Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Unrest (band), Unrest in the United States. During the 1990s, indie rock bands like Sonic Youth, the Pixies and Radiohead all released albums on major labels and subgenres like slowcore, Midwest emo, slacker rock and space rock began. By this time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arirang TV
Arirang TV () is a South Korean international broadcaster owned and operated by Korea International Broadcasting Foundation. It broadcasts current news and programs offering political, economic, and cultural content from a Korean perspective to a global audience in 134 countries around the world. History Launched locally by the government in 1996, with the motto "Korea for the World, the World for Korea," the Korea International Broadcasting Foundation, began broadcasting as Arirang TV in 1997. The foundation started broadcasting overseas in 1999 within the Asia region. The name of the broadcast comes from the traditional Korean folk song ''Arirang''. In January 2010, the network split its programming into two categories, news and non-news, with additional news bulletins and current affairs programs being added to the schedule, as well as more cultural programming. The Vietnamese drama series ' premiered on 4 January, with subtitles in both Korean and English. In 2011, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Indie Rock Groups
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant). South is sometimes abbreviated as S. Navigation By convention, the ''bottom or down-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
