Category Archives: Asian Music

The Forgotten #3: Jung Joon Young

Jung Joon Young

It’s Wednesday, so that means another post in NeeNee’s “The Forgotten” series. I really like doing this series. I’m not sure if anyone actually reads these posts or understands just why I do them, but it’s unlikely (for the time being) that I’ll stop them until I run out of rediscoveries of albums and artists. Also, rather unfortunately, most people

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Song of the Week – 24 March 2014

I’m thinking Taiwanese rock to get through the work week after a long weekend of rearranging and cleaning is in order. Thus…why not “Wake Up (拼了)” from Alan Kuo’s debut album? This song is actually written for the singer’s deceased father and is a high energy track. I think between “零” (“Ling” aka “Zero” from the Mars OST) and this

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The Forgotten #2: Eugene Lim ‘1’

Eugene Lim

My Asian music collection is rather Korean heavy. It used to be Japanese heavy, but it’s so dang hard buying Japanese music without spending a small fortune and the digital library in the US is actually rather small and lacking for current music. Well…my Chinese/Taiwanese music collection is sadly very lacking in comparison, so you would think I would remember

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Song of the Week – 10 March 2014

Neo Nal Tteona i Jari EP

This will be a tad different. Yes, I am picking a song, just one, for the week that’s stood out to me. But this time around, I’m also picking out an album for the week month.. Yes, an entire album. I’ve mentioned this album now in 2 posts and it’s officially been an album I’ve been listening to nonstop…on repeat.

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New Discovery: 엑티비티 (Activity)

Neo Nal Tteona i Jari EP

Thanks to discovering Bar Eden Hall’s YouTube channel where videos of Korean indie artists playing live are posted, I discovered this awesome Korean band called 엑티비티 (Activity)! It was a love at first listen…to a LIVE video. Half the time live videos aren’t the most stellar, mainly just because the video and sound quality are generally low, but these are

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