Day: 14/12/2022

Filipino rock band Sponge Cola have released a new single ‘Hometown’, inspired by the hit 2021 Korean drama Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha. READ MORE: 11 upcoming K-dramas to watch in December 2022 Produced by DJ Joey Santos, the uptempo track kicks off with a four-on-the-floor rhythm and arpeggiated synthesisers, gradually introducing sparkling guitars and backing vocals before […]

Blockberry Creative has unveiled the tracklist for LOONA‘s January comeback as an 11-member group, their first new music since the expulsion of Chuu earlier this month. READ MORE: LOONA – ‘Flip That’ review: an understated but subtly addictive return The tracklist was released via LOONA’s official social media earlier today (December 14) at midnight KST, detailing […]

Renowned Studio Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki is set to debut his latest project How Do You Live this July in Japan. The film is set to open in theatres in Japan on July 14 next year according to a new tweet by the studio’s Twitter account, with no international release date announced so far. While […]

[New Times] RWANDA’S MUSIC INDUSTRY has over the last two years metamorphosed into vitality, attracted more refined artistes, and experienced some of the greatest comebacks that will go down in the history of Rwandan music.

SUPER JUNIOR are set to debut a new song at their rescheduled ‘Super Show 9: The Road’ concerts in Manila. READ MORE: Upcoming K-pop concerts, tours and music festivals in Asia: BLACKPINK, Stray Kids, AOMG and more In a new announcement released by concert organiser PULP Live Philippines, it was revealed that the veteran K-pop […]

[Afropop] Congo-Brazzaville, like Congo-Kinshasa–two cities facing off across the Congo River–is best known for Latin-tinged Congolese rumba. This reputation has always masked the rich diversity of ethnic traditions surrounding these urban centers, literally hundreds of such traditions. But if we widen the lens, we find that there have long been modern groups creating more localized, […]

[Afropop] Sidi Samb is the leader of Afroflamenco, and as the name suggests, the band fuses African music with flamenco. But there’s more to it than that. Samb is a Senegalese Wolof griot, deeply immersed in sabardrumming, the dynamic percussion tradition behind Senegal’s trademark pop music, mbalax. Samb has long lived in Seville, Spain, and […]