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Lune

This tag covers three bands: 1) A northern Indiana alt folk band, Lune is the problem child project of Chad Forbregd, Josh Meert, and Nathaniel South. They're remarkable for rarely playing live shows, not touring and not selling merchandise, opting instead to focus purely on the music, on their sound. 2) The Korean female vocalist lune; her debut album features predominantly acoustic arrangements, with whispered melancholy lyrics and strong folk influences.

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Ophelia

There is more than one artist with the name Ophelia: 1. Ophelia are a metal band hailing from Chelmsford, Essex. Formed in late 2008, the band immediately started writing material and playing gigs in the local area. The spring of 2009 saw the band recording their debut E.P. at CDS Studios in Essex. By summer artwork and design had been finished, and the band raised money for CD replication throughout the autumn using a ‘presale scheme' that allowed fans to preorder and pay for the E.P. before it came out, ensuring them a signed copy.

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Huckleberry Finn

1. A Short Introduction Being an axis to their band, Lee Ki Young who both writes and composes music, started a band under the name of Huckleberry Finn at hip clubs near Hong Ik University in 1997.
As a core part of “Indi music” in Korea starting mid 1990s along with Crying Nut, Deli Spice, Kokoer and Sister’s barbershop, Huckleberry Finn is a representative of Korean Indi Rock band. Huckleberry Finn certainly walked one road for 10years pursuing their distinctive Rock music.

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Youme

A Korean singer with soprano voice. Youme’s debut album was released in 2002. In the same year, one of her song [사랑은 언제나 목마르다] was used in a Lotte Drink’s commercial video performed by Jeon Ji-Hyun. Later in 2002, she got the New Female Singer Award in m.Net Music Video Festival. After Winstuck OST was released in 2004, she had been known internationally. Her lastest album is in 2005.

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RUX

Due to Won Jonghee's Skunk Label (www.skunklabel.com), Rux are one of the most important punk bands in Korea in the mid-90s. As one of the forerunners of the scene, Rux set up a label that allowed many other punk bands in Korea to emerge from a music scene that concentrates mainly on pop and urban. Punk spawned in Korea around 1994 when Drug Records opened a punk club around Hongik University. Many youths took to this genre very easily and were soon forming bands of their own but there was a lack of record labels prepared to take on these bands.

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Super Junior

Super Junior (Korean: 슈퍼주니어), also known as simply SJ or SuJu (Korean: 슈주), is a (currently) eight-member South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2005, masterminded by Lee Soo Man. The group's current members are: 강인 (Kangin), 신동 (Shindong), 성민 (Sungmin), 은혁 (Eunhyuk), 시원 (Siwon), 동해 (Donghae), 려욱 (Ryeowook), 규현 (Kyuhyun) and 희철 (Heechul) who has recently returned from military service in 2013. Two additional members who are members of sub-unit Super Junior M only are: 周觅 (Zhou Mi) and Henry (헨리).

Read more about Super Junior on Last.fm.

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C.N.Blue

C.N.BLUE (Korean: 씨엔블루), stylized as CNBLUE (Code Name Blue), is a rock band from Seoul, South Korea, which debuted under F&C Entertainment on August 19, 2009 in Japan with the band's first mini album, Now or Never. The group released four teasers for their 1st album Bluetory, starring one member per each of the videos in the sequence of Jonghyun, Minhyuk, Jungshin and lastly, Jung Yong Hwa on the 6th, 8th, 11th and 13 January respectively. On the January 14, CN Blue debuted their first mini-album with lead single "I'm a Loner" (Korean: 외톨이야).

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