“I always had a thing for rock-operas,” tells the quirky pop-rocker Rod Kim, “And I was born in a city called Kokomo and raised by a very religious Korean father and a Korean mother that learned her English in Ebonics.”This is the norm for Rod Kim: a series of humorous twists seemingly plucked from the screenplay of a dark indie comedy. His art reflects this unconventionally “normal” life. Rod went from growing up in a small town to going on to produce hundreds of indie records spanning genres of rock, hip-hop, blues and more. Thousands of studio hours later, Rod was encouraged to tour and record the songs that he had been writing over the years. After an unprecedented live performance at the historic LaDue Auditorium near... read more