No Nukes Festival 2012
The No Nukes festival was initiated by Ryuichi Sakamoto and called for a ban of nuclear power plants and weapons.
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Ja(a)pan
A blog about Tokyo, traveling and yes, penguins
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Seoul Drum Festival 2011: Drum Cat, Nanta & more
For some reasons, major festivals seem to be concentrated on very few weekends in Seoul. This weekend, there was the Seoul Drum Festival, the YonKo Games and some expat festival.
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Namsangol Hanok Village: Traditional Korean Fan Dance
Traditional Korean fan dance at the Namsangol Hanok Village, shortly before the Taekwondo performance started. Namsangol is a place where lots of cultural experience programs are offered, I took a short Taekwondo lesson there.
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Sinchon Festival: Seoul rocks!
In an effort to reach out to the people living around the universities, the Sinchon Festival was organized. Sinchon is the area where Yonsei, Ewha, Hoingik and Sogang University are located.
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Street musicians in Hongdae, Seoul
Hongdae is not only full of bars, clubs and unusual coffee shops (don’t stick to Starbucks if you go there) but is also popular with street musicians.
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Grand Mint Festival Seoul (Day 2)
I started into day 2 of the festival a bit later by watching indie artist Thomas Cook (토마스 쿡) on the Mint Breeze Stage. That stage felt awfully big for his sparse live show however, and he was accompanied only by one other Guitar player.
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Grand Mint Festival Seoul (Day 1)
The GMF is an alternative festival showing all kinds of music genres from electro to classic without featuring mainstream pop, i.e. no Girl’s Generation or 2PM there. Instead you get artists like Clazziquai, Kim Yuna, Lee Sora or Teenage Fanclub.
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Clazziquai in Tokyo
Clazziquai is one of my favorite bands from South Korea. They combine various music genres into their music, from Electronica to Acid Jazz. DJ Clazzi is the master mind behind the band, he is the composer and producer of the songs.
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Retsuden Big 08: Indie bands live in concert
It’s been a while since I’ve been to a concert (Tsukiko Amano in Akasaka). A few days ago I bought
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Tsukiko Amano live
A few weeks ago I was very happy to get a ticket for the Tsukiko Amano concert. Tsukiko Amano (Japanese order: Amano Tsukiko) is still considered an underground artist it seems and no one I know seems to know her.
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Mr.Children
One Japanese group I really like is Mr.Children. Despite having an odd name, they make really good rock/pop music and
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