Stories of Places, People and Photography in the Philippines and Beyond
Department of Tourism Philippines and MTV Asia has a joint project soon to be launched first thing in October. We were fortunate enough to get an exclusive preview of their collaboration with renowned Filipino-American Apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo) of Black Eyed Peas called “Take Me to the Philippines”
Got tagged twice by Senor Enrique and Iskoo Hmmm…checking my MP3 player (which I haven’t updated for a while). I’ve got seven faves on my list…
The country may be in a “State of Emergency” but the music and the arts shall never stop expressing their sentiments on what is heppening right now in our country. The recent Arts and Music Festival for the 2nd day of the event were quite vocal on their perspective on what’s happening. In truth the media right now is under a leash, one wrong move and they could easiy be overtaken. It seems every week, a lot has been happening in our country, from the Ultra Stampede the first week, then there’s the Lanslide in Leyte, and now this State of Emergency. I hope PGMA is doing the right thing here and help more in the country’s situation.
I have been listening to the album “Ultraelectromagneticjam” for more than two weeks now and must say this has been a mixed bag for me. Honestly I’ve never really been a huge fan of E-heads, but I did enjoy most of their music, especially it was also a start of my college years back then and quite memorable. Even had a “CutterPillow” cassete back then. But hearing these new versions of their songs was a mixed of refreshment and “What the hell did they do?”
Hey I’m glad the band scene is alive and kicking but there have been a lot of talks on particular songs being rip-offs. Kinda disappointing. Are these musicians loosing a lot of their creative juices?
In the overly saturated world of bands in the local music scene lately, it’s really hard to find one who can offer something new and stay there for a while without being dragged into the conventional sound of pop/rock and endless adaptations into the acoustic side of song (I’m pointing at you MYMP and Nina!). Where Kitchie Nadal, Barbie Almadis, Mishka Adams, Mojofly, Imago and Session Road may have defined the female rock genre with their own style, we can’t deny there are a lot of wannabes who try to follow their path and thus ending up sounding the same.
J.D. is the new frontman for INXS. Didn’t expect this coming but from his last few performance, especially with INXS it definitely hit off. He’s got this Michael Hutchence-appeal when he performs. For Marty, who is a favorite of mine really, is better of doing his own stuff. I like his song “Trees” and I think would hit off the charts. As for Mig who also thanked us here in the Philippines (awww) is a different breed of his own. Mig is good, but he’s to glam to be an INXS. Like I said before, his song choice may be his ruin, and it did. INXS is looking for a frontman who can ooze sexiness from their songs much like Hutchence did and J.D.’s got it.
