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• LISTENING BOOTH: FREE ENERGY
    “Electric Fever” (from upcoming new album, Love Sign. Everything you ever loved about 70s rock anthems is brought to bear on this electrifying (pun intended) first single from retro rockers Free Energy. “Electric Fever is in my blood/You know it’s been there all my life” Oh yeah!   […]
• SMASH PALACE
  RETRO STYLE Smash Palace has been a stalwart of the Pop Underground scene for some time now and new album Do It Again (from Zip Records) is its seventh effort. Power pop is not an easy ‘genre’ to excel in due to the stringent comparisons with the seminal music of the past but it must be […]
• I HATE THIS PLACE
  AT THE CONCOURSE 9 JUNE 2012 Gayle Nerva and Sean Nerney out of electropop wonders I Hate This Place made their inaugural appearance at the Esplanade Concourse somewhat bewildered by the surroundings but overcoming nerves and unfamiliarity to deliver what they are best at – strong melodies with cool vibes! For two sets, the duo […]
• GEEK OUT! PROMETHEUS
  DEJA VU? It is epic, visually dazzling and most definitely, the prequel to director Ridley Scott’s first movie, Alien, released back in 1979. Yes all that nonsense about Prometheus not being an Alien prequel but instead being set in the same universe was simply a distraction. In fact, Scott pretty much sets out the film’s […]
• THE SILVER FACTORY
  Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Music So Different, So Appealing? With a moniker that alludes to the history of pop art (Warhol, Nico and all that), it comes as no surprise that UK band The Silver Factory revels in everything retro with a eagle’s eye fixation on the Sixties. But then again there […]
• GEEK OUT! GAME OF THRONES
  Season 2 At the end of Games of Thrones Season 1,  fans were given the iconic image of a naked Daenerys Targaryen standing with three baby dragons having survived her husband’s funeral pyre. That final scene was the perfect icing on the cake for a very successful first season and set up great expectations for the […]
• PoPWARE – SONY XBA HEADPHONES
  What Does Music Sound Like To You? Most music is now listened to via electronic devices and by necessity on headphones. Thus your choice of headphones will certainly  be a critical factor in maximizing your aural pleasures. Which is the cue for the official product description of the new SONY XBA line of headphones - […]
• POWER OF POP INTERVIEW: SHIGGA SHAY
  Moon Talkin’ with ShiGGa Shay When ShiGGa Shay’s latest EP was released, I dropped a comment, saying that one day I would be interviewing him. Three weeks later, it happened. I found myself sitting down with him in a café, on a moonlit night, sipping green tea lattes, and just chillin’ as we talked about […]
• PoPINIONS
  Renaissance City My Arse! Skl0 is a Singaporean guerilla artist who has been responsible for street art that has been spotted around Singapore recently. On the sides of roads, she would paint “My Grandfather Road” and she would place stickers on traffic light posts which satirize the behavior of Singaporeans. Technically, of course, what Skl0 […]
• GEEK OUT! SUPER
    Super is a low budget indie film that never got the same kind of attention that similar super-hero themed movie Kick-Ass got. The parallels are somewhat superficial – both movies are about ordinary folk who put on costumes to fight crime but they are stand-alone films in their own right. I loved Kick Ass […]