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Apollo 18

Award-winning South Korean post-rock and post-hardcore act Apollo 18 formed in the summer of 2008 in the suburbs of Seoul. The trio released their debut EP, Red, in February 2009. In July 2009 they issued their [0] or The Blue Album full-length. Later that month, Apollo 18 performed at South Korea’s two largest summer rock festivals, the Jisan Valley Rock Festival and Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival. In September of 2009 they played at a pair of sold-out Tokyo gigs for Japanese indie label Zankyo Records fifth anniversary party.

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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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Galaxy Express

갤럭시 익스프레스 (English: Galaxy Express) is a band which was made up in 2006 in Seoul, South Korea. Currently it consists of three members: 이주현 (Lee Joohyeon) - Bass/Vocals, 박종현 (Park Jonghyeon) - Guitar /Vocals, and 윤홍구 (Yoon Honggu) - Drums. Each member gained experience in the music scene in the bands like Ghetto Bombs, Vassline, etc. They appeared at various concerts such as EBS Space Gong Gam, Gwang Myeong Music Valley 2007, and Indie Music Festa 2007. Discography:

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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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Witches

There are three bands with the name Witches: 1. Witches (rock alternative pop. Korea)
2. Witches (alt/indie rock. Oxford, UK)
3. Witches (thrash metal. France)
1. Witches (Korea)
Witches are Ha Yang Soo (vocals), Woo Jae Jun (basses) and Shin Sun Ho (drums).
They mostly play rock music and alternative pop. In their first album "Broomstick" that was released in late 2002 and was published by Yejeon Media, they have one song that have influence of Ska and has been featured in a flash animation entitled: "There she is!" created by the SamBakZa studio.

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Overhead

Overhead the name of four popular bands. One is a French alternative/indie band and the other is a progressive rock band from Finland. There was also a third band called Overhead from Portugal. The fourth one is a band from New Zealand that plays rock and roll. The following information refers to the Finnish band. Alex Keskitalo: vocals and flute
Jaakko Kettunen: guitars
Tarmo Simonen: piano and keyboards
Janne Pylkkönen: bass
Ville Sjöblom: drums

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Eve

There are five artists who use this name:
1. A female rapper from the United States
2. A rock band from Korea
3. A pop trio from Japan
4. a singer from Finland
5. A visual kei band from Japan (イヴ) 1. Eve (born Eve Jihan Jeffers on November 10, 1978 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rapper, singer, and actress associated with the Aftermath crew. She adopted the name Gangsta in high school as part of an all-female group called EDGP (pronounced Egypt), and eventually went solo as Eve of Destruction.

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Grayscale

There are at least four artists with the name Grayscale: 1. An American indiepop group founded in 2005 and active through the present.
2. A Gothic metal band founded in Finland in 2000.
3. A trio of 8bit/chiptune ATARI musicians from Poland. See Grayscale Project instead.
4. A Hardcore band from Semarang, Indonesia, free download and listen their EP here 1. Brit-pop influenced rock with a New Wave kiss… a mashup of U2, The Psychedelic Furs, and Pink Floyd. Straight outta Cleveland.

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