The local punk label World Domination, Inc. (WDI) has released devastating news: IT S A FEST! (IAF!), its beach music festival, held last year and in 2019 on Incheon s Hanagae Beach, will not be proceeding as planned. Instead, it will be moved to indoor venues in Seoul, where it will be held under the subtitle Escape to Sinchon.
It s been over 15 years since Trash and Jeff Moses got married, and started the melodic punk band that would become known as .Whatever That Means (WTM). It s also been 10 years since they released their second full-length album, Sixty-Eight, Twenty-Two, and it s been five years since they founded IT S A FEST! (IAF), a music festival at Incheon s Hanagae Beach.
It s been over 15 years since Trash and Jeff Moses got married, and started the melodic punk band that would become known as .Whatever That Means (WTM). It s also been 10 years since they released their second full-length album, Sixty-Eight, Twenty-Two, and it s been five years since they founded IT S A FEST! (IAF), a music festival at Incheon s Hanagae Beach.
The legendary Seoul punk venue Skunk, recently reopened in eastern Sindang-dong, and is hosting a benefit show this Saturday for the Marriage for All Korea cause. It will feature the bands Drinking Boys and Girls Choir, DeadButtons, Dead Chant and Smoking Goose, as well as solo performances by folk musician Seth Mountain and the venue owner Won Jong-hee, going by the stage name Jonny Ruckus.
If you catch him at one of his stands, streetwear entrepreneur Matthew Gamble may introduce himself as Guksu, a Korean word for noodles. Just take a look at his designs, and you ll see why.