THE LISTENING BOOTH | POP POWER!!! : CRUMB – PLANTSTHE LISTENING BOOTH | POP POWER!!! : CRUMB – PLANTS
This is the quirky new single from Crumb.
Tag: Jazz
SINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT | POP POWER !!! – RANI SINGAM – MY MUSESINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT | POP POWER !!! – RANI SINGAM – MY MUSE
Jazz singer Rani Singam returns with a brand new single “My Muse”. The song was featured on Singam’s previous album Contentment but now with a new arrangement from Chok Kerong. It’s classy and smooth and one for the jazz purists out there. Listen: Buy: Amazon | iTunes
PoP RECOMMENDS | POP POWER!!! : LINCOLN BARR – TREMBLING FRAMESPoP RECOMMENDS | POP POWER!!! : LINCOLN BARR – TREMBLING FRAMES
Pop music is more than modern day hipster folk or EDM or millennial neo-soul. It takes a brave artist in 2017 to reach back into pop history to find inspiration for true pop power. Like Lincoln Barr, perhaps.
SINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT | POP POWER!!! : ASTRONAUTS – GET CLOSESINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT | POP POWER!!! : ASTRONAUTS – GET CLOSE
Singapore band Astronauts shares with many of their contemporary Singaporean musicians a love for urban millennial pop music.
ROCK HISTORY : DAVID BOWIE – THE PLAN EPROCK HISTORY : DAVID BOWIE – THE PLAN EP
The legendary David Bowie passed away on 10th January 2016, mourned by music lovers worldwide. On what would have been his 70th birthday (i.e. 8th January), the No Plan EP was released.
BIRTH OF THE NEW COOL: THE STEVE MCQUEENS SLAY AT THE ANNEXE SESSIONSBIRTH OF THE NEW COOL: THE STEVE MCQUEENS SLAY AT THE ANNEXE SESSIONS
The Steve McQueens found time in between tours of Australia and South Korea to bring their magic jazz-soul-funk ride to home fans at the Annexe Sessions on Thursday, September 29th.
SINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT : TOMGIRL + LEO GOHSINGAPORE MUSIC SPOTLIGHT : TOMGIRL + LEO GOH
Photo credit: Cherlynn Lian The live debut of TOMGIRL – Cherie Ko and Ted Doré – and assorted backing musicians will take to the stage at the Esplanade Recital Studio tonight at 7.30pm. Get your tickets from SISTIC.
LIVE NEWS: THE ANNEXE SESSIONS – CHOK KERONG TRIO & IN EACH HAND A CUTLASS!!LIVE NEWS: THE ANNEXE SESSIONS – CHOK KERONG TRIO & IN EACH HAND A CUTLASS!!
Exciting news for fans of live Singapore music as the Esplanade opens up a new venue, The Annexe with the launch of the Annexe Sessions. This takes place in early September with two top notch instrumental outfits viz. the Chok Kerong Trio (8pm, 1st)) and In Each Hand a Cutlass (11pm, 2nd). Both gigs are priced […]
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Snapshots of the Singapore music scene. WATCH MICHELLE SGP’S MUSIC VIDEO OF SERENITY LISTEN TO INTRIGUANT’S REMIX OF CHARLIE LIM’S NOTHING SO CRUEL … still there’s more …
ALBUM REVIEW: DAVID BOWIE – BLACKSTARALBUM REVIEW: DAVID BOWIE – BLACKSTAR
The legendary David Bowie thrilled all his fans with his fabulous comeback album The Next Day back in 2013 and diehards have been hoping and praying that the LP was not a one-off. Thankfully, Bowie is back with a new album for 2016 – Blackstar!
PoPTV – THIS IS ROCK!PoPTV – THIS IS ROCK!
Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as “rock and roll” in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. (W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: […]
REEL TO REAL: WHIPLASH POSES THE QUESTION – IS MUSICAL GENIUS A PRODUCT OF OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR OR CREATIVE INSPIRATION?REEL TO REAL: WHIPLASH POSES THE QUESTION – IS MUSICAL GENIUS A PRODUCT OF OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR OR CREATIVE INSPIRATION?
Written & directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons & Paul Reiser. Whiplash – the story of Andrew Neiman (Teller), a young jazz drummer who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of Terence Fletcher (J. K. Simmons), the school’s fearsome maestro of jazz – has been the […]
ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY: CHARLIE LIMABSOLUTELY NECESSARY: CHARLIE LIM
Finally! Charlie Lim has released two new singles (viz. “Bitter” and “Conspiracy”) and both tracks can be downloaded for FREE from Bandwagon (limited to first 1000 signups) so HURRY!!!! Suffice to say, “Bitter” is a heart-wrenchingly gorgeous jazz-pop piece with dynamism, virtuosity and dollops of soul that deserves to be a worldwide hit (whatever that means […]