DoIndie has some signed Smacksoft CD’s to giveaway. For more details on how to win this prize, please go to our Facebook page. For a band, the process of maturation brings with it a great deal of anxiety and no little amount of angst. The debut album is easy by comparison. There’s no expectations, no […]
Interview with Smacksoft, by Chris P I had the chance to interview Smacksoft last year after I had heard Follow Your Heart. Prior to their too-short US tour starting in March, I had a chance to check back in with the band. Whang, Bo Ryung, vocal and guitar, was nice enough to take some time and […]
[헤럴드경제=정진영 기자] 싱어송라이터 황보령이 미니앨범 ‘마치 아무 일도 없었던 것처럼(As If Nothing Ever Happened)’를 27일 발매한다. 황보령은 지난 1998년 정규 1집 ‘귀가 세 개 달린 곤양이’로 데뷔한 이래 독창적인 음악 세계로 주목을 받아왔다. 지난해 황보령은 정규 5집 ‘팔로우 유어 하트’를 발매해 전작들의 깊고 무거운 느낌을 덜어내고 거칠지만 따뜻한 새로운 사운드를 선보여 호평을 받았다. 황보령은 지난해 9월부터 앨범에 실릴 신곡을 매 쇼케이스마다 […]
By John Redmond While the commercial music scene is dominated by an endless string of girl-group, boy-band clones hoping to capture international fame, Korean post-punk band Smacksoft has been setting the local expat music scene on fire. Smacksoft will head to the U.S. next month to play at SXSW in Texas and at CAAMFest in […]
Whang Bo Ryung, the font-woman of the independent band SMACKSOFT has released a teaser for her new track ‘As If Nothing Ever Happened’. Whang Bo Ryung belongs among the first wave of Korean independent artists and musicians, whose music reached beyond borders of nationality while still being influenced by their Korean roots. Her music is both captivating and dynamic. […]
Here is the issue link for Groove’s August issue where you can find SMACKSOFT’s article and photos on page 56. View the issue online »
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“What do you do when you are an iconoclastic artist and musician who has myriad ideas, concepts, and feelings, yet cannot seem to find an outlet? If you’re Whang Bo-ryung, you combine them into a uniquely synesthetic format that—literally and figuratively—adds color to sound and sound to color, kind of like an aural version of […]