BTS is back, this time with a mini album, MAP OF THE SOUL: PERSONA, and it is no surprise that the boys are making waves both locally in their home country, South Korea, and internationally. In just a week of its release, BTS has been breaking records and they don’t seem to be stopping either.…
Coachella is one of the most highly anticipated music festivals of the year. It’s a who’s who of artists representing all genres of music, rock, pop, indie, hip hop and electronic dance music (Wikipedia).But what did it not have until 12 April 2019? The blessings of a K-pop girl group in its showcase. But on…
KANA-BOON, the band that produced the all-time hit “Silhouette” as the opening theme for the Naruto Shippuden series, has produced a new song, “Baton Road”, for Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, the sequel to the original franchise. With the band gaining much attention over their previous hit song, how will this new song compare? Given that…
With the release of “Babel” in 2012, Mumford and Sons have indeed developed a great reputation for themselves. The album debuted at number one on both the UK album charts as well as the US billboard 200. It has also become one of the fastest selling albums in the UK, selling 159,000 copies in the…
“Future hearts”, which was released on 7th April, is the 6th studio album released by the American power pop band All Time Low. The band is lauded for its smart lyrical style and powerful instrumentals and vocals as featured in its previous album, “Don’t Panic”. All Time Low is American band from Maryland. Formed in 2003, the…
YouTube sensations, The Piano Guys, played a glorious set from their repertoire of entertaining classical-contemporary mashups for their fans in Singapore over two evenings (13-14 April) at the Star Performing Arts Centre. Mainly headlined by pianist, Jon Schmidt and cellist, Steven Sharp Nelson, they thrilled the audience with amazing skill, clever arrangements and a constant…
The video starts off culturally confused. The first shot puts the band in front of some beautiful Chinese architecture in Chinatown. But it is the Korean greeting, ” annyeong-haseyo”, they shout as a cue to start. A more amusing contradiction is the song title. The first thing that comes into mind when you read “A tear in…
Kintsugi: the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with a mixture of powdered gold, silver, or even platinum filled resin, and also the eighth studio album of indie rock band, Death Cab for Cutie. “Broken” would be an appropriate term to describe the fan base at this moment in time, with founding band member and star guitarist,…
When I first picked up this anime approximately 6 months ago, I did not realize what I was getting myself into. What starts off as a seemingly upbeat and “slice of life” anime gradually became more than just that for me. The series starts off with a cheery schoolgirl’s encounter with a jet black kitten.…
Like an onion, there are many layers to unravel in Twenty One Pilots’ Fairly Local, so let’s start from the outside, the title: “Fairly Local”. The song title is a rather odd phrase because one is either local, or one is not. ‘Fairly’ suggests that one is close to, but not completely integrated in the…
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