Day: 25/07/2022

Former iZ*ONE member and soloist Choi Yena has unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming mini-album ‘Smartphone’. READ MORE: The 15 best K-pop songs of 2022 – so far On July 25, the 22-year-old idol shared the tracklist for her sophomore mini-album ‘Smartphone’, due out on August 3 at 6pm KST. Led by its title track […]

K-pop groups KARD and Weeekly have been announced in the first wave of acts set to play Indonesia’s KPOP LAND 2022 festival this September. READ MORE: Here are the biggest concerts and music festivals to catch in Southeast Asia in 2022 The two acts will perform at Stadium Madya Senayan in Jakarta this September 19 […]

A professor from University Kebangsaan Malaysia has told Malaysians who bought tickets to the recently announced Dewa 19 30th anniversary concerts in Kuala Lumpur that they shouldn’t “complain about prices going up” in the face of inflation woes. READ MORE: The Filters: the Malaysian ‘fractional math rock’ band taking apart the human condition Professor Emeritus […]

Moviedle has risen as a popular quiz game in the wake of the absolute behemoth that is Wordle. It borrows the basic principles, but adds a uniquely filmic twist. You see, instead of guessing a word, you’re trying to name a movie. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, there’s quite an important wrinkle to consider. READ […]

Globle is yet another variant on everyone’s favourite word game. The similarities are brief, with Globle offering a geography-based puzzle, with a new solution to take on each day. Those who wish to play need only start by guessing any country. The game will then tell you how close you’ve gotten, allowing you to narrow […]

The last couple of years have seen a huge rise in browser-based puzzle games, tasking players with working out a certain kind of answer using limited guesses. Framed is one of the newest, following in the footsteps of Wordle, but offering a slightly different twist. You’ll still need to work out the answer using limited […]

Korean-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter Slchld has announced a second Singapore show after his first concert sold out a week after tickets were released. READ MORE: Here are the biggest concerts and music festivals to catch in Southeast Asia in 2022 Slchld will now play an additional concert at the *SCAPE Ground Theatre on October 3, the […]

The owner of Kuala Lumpur gig venue Angkasa Space says the live music space will close for good after authorities seized and shut down the venue yesterday (July 24) following the lapse of its license. The venue was scheduled to host a hip-hop show featuring Nakalness of FORCEPARKBOIS and Chronicalz among others Sunday evening. Soundchecks […]

Artists of the South Asian painting tradition were fascinated by the topic of the Ragamala (literally ‘garland of musical modes’). The 36 different musical modes offered artists various ways to represent the topic of love or heroic behaviour. A raga (mode) in Indian music is a melody consisting of a string of notes in a […]

Kinder Bloomen guitarist Abdul “Defa” Defashah can’t quite explain how his band got here. “We never really agreed on psychedelic rock being our main ‘genre’ per se,” he muses. The six-piece group traffic in a a punchy, busy blend of contemporary “indie” flourishes – spacey vocals, funked-out kraut rock beats, disco-jazz low ends, a whole […]