From humble beginnings in a Tapdong parking lot 12 years ago, the Stepping Stone indie rock festival celebrated another success in 2015 in spite of heavy rain, intense winds and a washed-out beach due to Typhoon Chan-hom.

The Korea File was at the festival's Plan B, Daemyung Resort's Diamond Ballroom on Hamdeok Beach, to speak with festival organizer Kim Myoung-su and some of the bands, including:

the Stooges-era garage rock of Dead Buttons,
https://www.gigmit.com/dead-buttos

Romantiqua's guitar-heavy post-rock
http://www.koreanindie.com/2013/05/07/romantiqua-%EB%A1
%9C%EB%A7%8C%ED%8B%B0%EC%B9%B4-when-and-where/

the Mogwai-esque soundscape harmonics of Apollo 18
https://apollo18.bandcamp.com/

and the dynamic folk punk of Jeju's own Zen Alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUA-cLDLoKo

For more on the festival check out Ann Bush's eyewitness account at
http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=4846