Monthly Archives: January 2009
aTunes News: YPM Calendar
Quick update everyone! If you look at the tabs up top you’ll see a new page entitled “YPM Calendar“. Clicking it will take you to a Google Calendar page that contains the dates for important Yellow People Music events! It’s a bit bare bones now but hopefully it’ll become more and more full over time.
Feel free to shoot me an email at (giftedthought at gmail dot com) if you have any suggested calendar events!
JohnnyPhlo debuts with “The Notebook” mini-album
JohnnyPhlo, who’s been garnering a lot of buzz in just a few short weeks since his single release for “White Lie” has just dropped his debut album entitled “The Notebook”. You can purchase the album here.
Here’s the tracklisting:
1. Turn Around feat. Decipher
2. Eraser (Erase Her) Pt. I
3. U+Me = 1, Me Without U = 0, U Must be the 1 feat. Amy Lee
4. White Lie (Baby Please) feat. Ailee [produced by E-Motion-L Productions]
5. It Will Be Alright feat. Juno
6. S.T.A.Y. (Still Thinkin’ About You) Pt. II
7. Eraser (Erase Her) Pt. II
8. Keep Your Head Up (To The Sky) feat. Dj Dutta [produced by E-Motion-L Productions]
9. Life Against Time feat. Gifted Thought & RoK
Read more about his thoughts on the release along with his touring activities in his blog.
Fun Fact: The last track features yours truly 
BoA’s Debut Album Release Date Set!
The album release date and tracklisting for BoA’s self titled US debut has finally been set.
It’s slated to drop March 17th. Let’s hope its a success!
Source: AllKPop
1-I Did It For Love (featuring Sean Garrett)
2-Energetic
3-Did Ya
4-Look Who’s Talking
5-Eat You Up
6-Obsessed
7-Touched
8-Scream
9-Girls On Top
10-Dress Off
11-Hypnotic Dancefloor
Paul Dateh Releases New Album
Kollaboration 9 competitor Hip Hop violinist Paul Dateh has just released a new album. You can purchase via , CD Baby, or Amazon (DRM free FTW!).
He will also be holding a release party on January 31st, both in person and via live stream (similar to the Far East Movement).
Read more about it all at Angry Asian Man and ChannelAPA.
Ken Oak Band to release new album and band name
The Ken Oak Band has just announced via Myspace that they will be releasing a new album on March 26th. Also, it seems they will be rebranding themselves as Oak & Gorski.
Personally I can’t wait for the album. These two create great music. But I do question the move to renaming their band. Although I do understand that they are very much a duo and deserve equal billing, changing the band name after all these years may set them back in terms of recognition and word of mouth.
Read the myspace bulletin after the break.
Just ‘Cause: A Humble BoA
I remember seeing this a while back and thinking how crazy it is that even with all the success BoA has had all over asia, it still hasn’t really gone to her head. This is a performance of her in Japan. After she finishes the crowd continues and just watch her reaction.
Now as she actively works to make inroads into the US music industry it’s good to see the support she still has back in Asia. Maybe this can one day happen for her in the US?
I think its refreshing to see real emotions coming from real people who ordinarily don’t have the luxury of being… real.
News Quickies 1-26-09 Ningin & ChannelAPA Edition
Asian Media Portal Ningin has posted interviews with:
- Jane Lui, a contestant in the upcoming Kollaboration 9and winner of Kollaboration Acoustic. (Fun Fact: She was a last minute replacement in Kollaboration Acoustic)
- Quest Dance Crew (part 1 and part 2), a dance group currently competing in ABDC Season 3 and featured in FM’s video for “Dance Like Michael Jackson”.
ChannelAPA posted some articles on:
- Rin on the Rox, two filipino girls who managed to get enough attention on youtube to warrant a shout out from Ellen Degeneres on her show. (Also check their myspace).
- Charice Pempengco, the child prodigy singer who sang at some of last weekend’s festivites.
- How to win tickets to Kollaboration 9!
Johnnyphlo & Decipher to perform together
Korean American MC’s on the rise, Johnnyphlo & Decipher, will be performing together on Friday, 2-6-09.
The two most recently had collaborations together on Decipher’s last mixtape, “The Best Things in Life Vol. 1” and Johnnyphlo’s upcoming mini-album, “The Notebook”.
See an old video of them performing together 3 years ago after the jump.
News Quickies 1-25-09 AllKPop Edition
Instead of posting 3 seperate articles that were all jacked from AllKPop I decided to be lazy and just aggregate them here.
- MTV Iggy has some behind the scenes footage of BoA working on her US debut.
- “Blacklisted” KPOP artist Yoo Seung Jun has made comments on how he believes he is being treated unfairly for not going into the Korean military as initially promised.
- The Wonder Girls will be performing in SoCal in early march.
Jennifer Chung to release EP album
Jennifer Chung announced via her facebook fan page that she is all set to release an EP in just a few days on January 29th. I know I’m looking forward to it!
From facebook:
Jennifer’s E.P. will be available online!
January 27, 2009.
Mark your calendars!
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