This week’s episode was slightly late because Noelle had to gain access to a new mic to replace one that was misplaced. I somehow managed to call 2NE1 4minute in this episode, in probably what is one of my greater brainfarts, so in points its a comedy of errors. I’m sorry.
Download Episode 68 – Once More With Fire
News:
A Pink member leaves.
SPICA is pretty awesome on Immortal Song 2
Jay Park involved with Will & Jaden Smith’s Film After Earth
Jaden & Will meet up with YG & the younger promises to work with G-Dragon
Oh yeah, T-ARA made a subgroup, for some reason, and now Chris Brown wants it.
Sex Assault charges dropped against Park Shi Hoo.
When did all of these things happen to Park Jung Ah?
Comebacks/Debuts/New Releases
G-Dragon – MichiGO
Cho Young Pil – Hello ft. Verbal Jint
Lyn – Breakable Heart ft. Junhyung
Shinee – Why so serious?
4minute – What’s your name?
N-Train – Come Back to me
History – Dreamer
Ladies Code – Won’t cry
T-ARA N4 – Jeongwon Diary
Jay Park – Welcome
Lee Hyori – Miss Korea
Geeks – Wash Away
2PM – Come Back When You Hear this Song
2PM – ADTOY the name is like Killer Mike’s ADIDAS but lame.
uBeat – Should’ve Treated you Better
Younha – The Real Reason We Broke Up
B1A4 – What’s Happening?
Freetalk: Yesung Does Blackface (and here without the makeup) to play Nick Fury & I am tired of this happening. If you got the opportunity to run a seminar for Hallyu artists on international cultural sensitivity what would you include?
Notes:
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Armywatch: Yesung
U-KISS creates a subunit consisting of Kevin, Eli & AJ. This is how that goes.
Back in the day embarrassing U-KISS
Hyori to have 3-4 MVs
BAP doing a world tour because whoever heard of resting?
RaNia is doing things I’m not too sure I’ll be happy about. Good News/Bad News for Wonder Girls fans. (Hint: It’s the same thing.)
Comebacks/Debuts/New Releases
Jay Park – JOAH
Zion T. – Babay ft. Gaeko
M.I.B. – Nod Along
Younha – Unacceptable
Double K – Rap Movement
BTOB – Confession
PSY – Gentleman
Opening Song: Zion T. – Babay ft. Gaeko
Ending Song: M.I.B. – Hello Goodbye ft. Tasha/T/Yoon MiRae
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Now that my four-day Easter weekend is done the podcast is back on track with featuring discussion of the dire situation those few Dalmatian/DMTN stans amongst us find ourselves in. Download Episode 66 – I Know a Guy
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News
Our Boy Se7en has enlisted in the army.
Supreme Team is Back Together again.
Music Core’s ranking system to return.
Daniel of DMTN (formerly known as Dalmatian) arrested and questioned over his alleged involvement in marijuana deals.
JYPE’s US office finally accepts the inevitable and decides to go quietly into the night.
Comebacks/Debuts/New Releases
Space Cowboy – It’s Over
eVoL – Get Up
GLAM – In Front of the Mirror
Supreme Team – Stay Still
G.NA – Oops ft. Ilhoon of BTOB
Girl’s Day – Expectation
Freetalk
This episode we focus in a bit on this article regarding Sayuri’s appearance on Pyo Chang Won’s Fastball to Current Affairs and her comments about sexual abuse in the entertainment industry. We follow that up with a brilliant email from a valued listener.
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Thank you for supporting us the past two years, we hope to be able to pick things up and continue to deliver quality Kpop discussion with our usual rational flair. Download Episode 65 – Birthday Remix
News
SuPearls is over.
Strange things start happening with witnesses in Go Young Wook’scase.
PSY releases Remix Style EP featuring diplo, 2Chainz & Tyga. It…yeah…
Stardom made an episode answering to the allegations against them by Block B, and then get it summarily dismantled by Block B’s legal team.
Debuts/Comebacks/New Releases
Zion T – Two Melodies
RaNia – Just Go
Gaeko – Rhythm is Life
2AM – One Spring Day
D-Unit – Talk to my Face
Dok2 – I’m 1LL
FeelDog (of BigStar), Yong Junhyung (of B2ST) & LE (of EXID) – You’ve Got Some Nerve
Yankie – I.N.D.O. ft. Tablo
Teen Top – Miss Right
AA – Rollin Rollin
Ladies Code – Bad Girl
U-KISS – Still Standing
Opening Song: Yankie – I.N.D.O. ft. Tablo
Insert Song: Ladies Code – Bad Girl
Closing Song: RaNia – Just Go
All songs are property of their original owners.
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Sorry for the lateness of this episode. I’ve been having motivational issues, but herein we discuss those ridiculous moments of 2012 that left us scratching our heads. From the inane (dating) to the absurd (weed) to the completely disgusting (pedophilia) we cover all the bases as we remember them. So make sure and bring your popcorn as we recap the Scandals of 2012.
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Last week was a bit hectic so this episode didn’t get released on time, however it’s here in its entirety to wrap up our 2012 musical review. The next episode takes a look at the Scandals that so easily besot us in 2012 and some looming on the horizon already in 2013.
Download Episode 63-2: Not Your Mother’s Best Singles
Bless and Keep Tei, we need Handsome People to endure
No opening or ending song this week as it’s jam packed with music anyway. In this episode we belatedly discuss the first half of our favorite 81 singles of 2012 in Kpop. The criteria for being chosen requires that the song either be released as a single (digital or physical), have a music video or be performed on stage (obviously songs performed at concerts don’t count right away). Thank you for bearing with the length of time this took to be edited and I hope you’ll stick around for us in 2013.
Probably the last episode to be released in 2012, but will be followed by our Top Singles of 2012 episode and our Top Scandals of 2012 episode, so you have a lot to look forward to. This episode is a bit dated, but we had fun recording so you guys should be able to enjoy it. Download Episode 62 – We Expect So Much of You
The End?
News:
Kpop artists snubbed from Kohaku
The Last Great Wonderbang special stage.
Sunye’s upcoming nuptials. We talk a bit about how that’s going to affect The Wonder Girls going forward.
SM & JYJ’s two sides allegedly come to an agreement finally.
Our MAMA Discussion
You can view all of the MAMA performances if you missed them on Mnet’s account here.
Davichi opts to re-sign with CCM despite almost ditching the company entirely.
How much do sites like allkpop have influence over how we perceive the Korean Music Industry? Example A: Zico/Hwayoung scandal.
Opening Song: Trouble Maker – Trouble Maker
Ending Song: Wonder Girls – Like This
Excuse the lateness, please. Both this episode and the next to be released were recorded last month, which accounts for the discussions that are a bit dated. The delays are my fault as my weekends (best available time to edit) suddenly got taken up by softball. Never fear though, I think the discussion here is pretty interesting as we seem to work best when we’re talking about scandal.
We all have accidentally clicked send on the wrong thing, most of us haven't been a much lusted after Kpop star with an "innocent" image while doing it.
“New Releases”
Son Dambi – Tears are Falling
Miss $ – Good Night
Jerry K. – Good Night
Jerry K. – You’re not a Lady
B1A4 – Tried to Walk
Peppertones – Open Run
News
<a href=”http://www.billboard.com/news/bigbang-in-america-behind-the-scenes-with-1008016262.story?utm_source=most_recent#/news/bigbang-in-america-behind-the-scenes-with-1008016262.story?utm_source=most_recent”>Small Interview with Big Bang /Concert BTS</a> by Billboard Magazine
PSY wins an <a href=”https://twitter.com/psy_oppa/status/267746592260509696″>EMA</a>
Hyuna talks with <a href=”http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/hey-sexy-lady-hyuna-k-pops-gangnam-girl#_”>Interview Magazine</a>
Free Talk: If you were in charge of a company where two artists got caught in a dating scandal what would your Press Release say?
Opening Song: Block B – Mental Breaker
Insert Songs: Hyuna – Unripe (Green) Apple ft. Jung Ilhoon of BTOB
Miss A – I Don’t Need a Man
Closing Song: NS Yoonji – If You Love Me ft. Jay Park
With Noelle unfortunately unable to participate due to health and personal reasons I went it alone in this recording, attempting to put my thoughts together on Epik High’s 7th album 99, as well as to reply to 3 emails we had from really nice listeners. I tried my best to keep the conversation going on my own, but hopefully I won’t have to do this very often. As an apology, this episode has background music, 11 tracks from various Epik High albums that I believe show off the diversity of their sound.
For Comparison’s sake here’s the last video from their final release under Woolim
For a lot of people their music videos were a great part of the reason why Epik High stood apart from many of the other artists in the mainstream.
Unfortunately there were some recording issues with Audacity so around minutes 15-18 the audio goes a bit wonky. My advice is to focus your hearing portion of your brain on the songs in the background.
Song List: All songs by Epik High links go to translated lyrics
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