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Lee Joon and Thunder of K-Pop Boy Band MBLAQ Leave Group

After months of speculation, Lee Joon and Thunder of the popular South Korean boy band MBLAQ have announced that they are officially leaving the group to focus on their individual careers.Lee Joon and Thunder’s legal team released an official statement regarding their departure from the five-member group following the expiration of their contracts with label J. Tune Camp, which was in late November. According to the statement, Lee Joon will be focusing on filming his latest drama "Mr. Baek," while Thunder will focus on his music studies.J. Tune Camp has released a statement regarding the status of MBLAQ. The company is uncertain whether it will continue promoting the group as a trio or if it will add new members to its line-up, but it assured that MBLAQ will continue on. It is not immediately known whether the two will sign a contract with J. Tune Camp and continue to be managed by the agency.Rumors first surfaced of the group's break-up in October, with J. Tune Camp saying that the two will still be negotiating contacts and that nothing had been officially decided. But the two performers's last concert “Curtain Call" Nov. 31 gave way to their departure, with Lee and Thunder hinting that they would end their five-year careers as members of MBLAQ.
By Jaime Prisco

  • Bassist AKi of Japanese Rock Band SID Will Be Making His Solo Debut

    AKi, bassist for the Japanese visual kei rock band SID, has announced that he will be making his solo debut at the beginning of the year with an album release.The upcoming album, titled "ARISE," will be released Jan. 28 through Tower Records. AKi will hold his first solo concert Feb. 3 in Tokyo at the Tsutaya O-East.On Dec. 5, Danger Crue Records released a free digital single titled “Freak Show" from an unidentified rookie artist, which has now been revealed to have been AKi. "ARISE" will come with 11 tracks, one of which will be the already-released track “Freak Show." AKi wrote all of the album's lyrics, including the English ones. Glay's Toshi Nagai, The Mad Capsule Markets’s Motokatsu Miyagami, usagi's Takayuki Kato and MUCC's Miya will be featured as guest performers on the album.
    By Jaime Prisco

  • New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Presents 'Romeo and Juliet' with Music Direction by Jacques Lacombe

    The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and music director Jacques Lacombe present of trio of works inspired by "Romeo and Juliet" from Tchaikovsky, Gounod and Prokofiev in Newark and New Brunswick.The program will open the 2015 Winter Festival: Sounds of Shakespeare, which will be the first year of a two-season Winter Festival cycle showcasing music inspired by William Shakespeare. Actors from The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will perform scenes from The Bard’s great tragedy while selections from Prokofiev’s "Romeo and Juliet" are performed.
    By Jaime Prisco
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