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• MUM, WAVVES & SHELVES – LIVE AT ZOUK [REVIEW]
  It ain’t rock n’ roll.  Well, for most part (two-thirds) this oddly curated gig featured the loud, brash, melody-driven indie rock that I personally get my rocks off to completely. And whereas the likes of Shelves and Wavves had whipped up the crowd into a frenzy of sorts, Icelandic experimental outfit Mum duly engineered a […]
• DEAD STARS – HIGH GAIN EP [REVIEW]
  The early 90s were an exciting time for alternative rock. It was an epoch where edgy melodies met crunchy guitars with pummeling rhythms! Hell yes, it’s time for a 90s alt-rock revival and Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s Dead Stars have no qualms declaring their intent to evokes the likes of Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur, Jr. in […]
• LONG AND WINDING ROAD: EMO FASCISM – ARE WE THERE YET?
  We are about seven weeks away from the launch of Emo FASCISM Launch Week! As far as the music is concerned, Pat and I are working on the final mixes of the 12 songs that will make up the CD. A 4-track sampler is now available at Soundcloud with opening track “Silver” the final teaser […]
• POPTV: ESTHER LOWLESS – STRANGE PLACE TO MEET [VIDEO]
  Heads up, folks! This coming Friday 21st June, Esther Lowless will launch her amazing debut EP – Strange Place to Meet – at the Esplanade Recital Studio. How good is the EP? Well, I gave it 5 stars over at TODAY and it is no exaggeration to state that it is one of the best debut recordings […]
• GEEK OUT! MAN OF STEEL [REVIEW]
  Reboot. Re-imagination. Re-telling. In geek movie franchises (scifi, fantasy or superhero), going back to the beginning to re-introduce a iconic character is virtually unavoidable nowadays. In Batman Begins (2005), Christopher Nolan (director/co-screenwriter) and David S Goyer (co-screenwriter) succeeded in re-vitalizing the Dark Knight after the critical fa […]
• BORN CAGES – THE SIDELINES EP [REVIEW]
  Lest we forget, in the mid-70s New York brought forth nascent punk and the ‘new wave’. Even as there appears to be a new punk uprising in London, might we also witness an exciting fresh rock n’ roll perspective from New York? Well, when I first heard the opening lines to “Don’t Look Back” – […]
• WAVVES – LIVE AT ZOUK [INTERVIEW]
  One more for the road. Stephen Wavves talks to us about the upcoming gig at Zouk with Mum and Shelves. What is the first thing you’re gonna do when you arrive in Singapore? Eat eat eat eat What is the one fact that you do know about Singapore? Singapore has a reputation of having incredibly […]
• THE ROLLING STONES: CROSSFIRE HURRICANE [DVD REVIEW]
  Considering the number of iconic films that The Rolling Stones have been associated with – Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Performance and Cocksucker Blues, it was simply not enough for director Brett Morgen to come up with a by-the-numbers 50th anniversary retrospective. Which, to his immense credit, he didn’t! Fact is, Crossfire Hurricane manages to […]
• BEVLYN KHOO – THE PEOPLE I’VE KNOWN [REVIEW]
  After a couple of albums where she mainly recorded covers, singer-songwriter Bevlyn Khoo is in her element once again, with an indie album of her own original material. This bi-lingual work (seven Mandarin, four English) demonstrates Bevlyn’s astute understanding of the soft rock dynamics of the Seventies (which forms the core of Mando-pop). Crucially, Bevly […]
• MUM – LIVE AT ZOUK [INTERVIEW]
  Icelandic wonders Mum will thrill local audiences when they return to our shores on 15th June at Zouk, alongside Wavves and our very own Shelves. Ahead of the gig, we had a short and sharp exchange with Mum’s Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason. What is the first thing you’re gonna do when you arrive in Singapore? I am […]