Musicroom, the UK’s leading music retailer, comments on the startling rise of South Korea’s most successful cultural export. Psy’s internationally successful song, Gangnam Style, has got the whole world pretending to ride horses. Hopelessly likable and yet wickedly tongue-in-cheek, the music video features South Korean superstar Psy tearing up the dance floor with K-pop’s distinctive style of synchronised dance.
The Playlist: Top 5 Essential Artists for a Southeast Asian Road Trip
Jenny O’Connor returns to give us another dose of her rocking playlists after last months exploration of Latin America. This month we head to Southeast Asia and stuff our ears with tunes picked out by her.
Travel As I See It: Globe Trotting Multi Instrumentalist Anthony Johns
Rejoice! For today I welcome long-standing friend of mine and a boy I once met in the cold wilderness of London, Anthony Johns. Then battering the skins for British band Rubicks, Anthony now finds himself in Czech Republic lending his talented musical hand to many local projects. We sit down with him to see just how travel has helped shape his musical influences and learn about what is in store for him next.
Kick-Ass African Festivals: Jahazi Jazz and Literary Festival
Jazz lovers might just have a new hot spot to visit on a festival tour. Far from the booze-infused jazz festivities of the American south, Zanzibar’s Jahazi Jazz and Literary festival just completed its second year and, in spite of a few hiccups, is on its way to becoming a jazz institution in the region.
Kick-Ass Spanish Festivals: Figueres Acustica
GrooveTraveler recently posted on the top five music festivals in Spain, the difficulty of which being that there are so many. Summer in Spain sees an impressively eclectic musical spread. Some are grand festivals that attract music lovers from around the world and music makers as well known as they get. Others are impromptu DJ raves behind Barcelona’s Boqueria that only stay small because word can’t spread fast enough through the streets before they end and wind up with 200 people drunk on La Rambla at 16h. Err, hypothetically… Somewhere in the middle is Festival Acústica Figueres, otherwise known simply…
