Pulse.ph : MUSIC + CULTURE
August 18th, 2010
LISTEN: JOHNOY AND KAKOY: “PAGTATAPAT,” “WILL I EVER WALTZ”
JOHNOY DANAO AND KAKOY LEGASPI: FROM JAMMING BUDDIES TO BAR CULT STATUS TO RADIO DOMINATION. MAKE IT HAPPEN. LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS HERE.
August 13th, 2010
HARDLY LIKE “THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS,” BUT STILL DESERVES A SPIN OR TWO.
July 21st, 2010
EMIR: TO BE OR NOT TO BE (A MUSICAL)?
THE OFTEN VERBOSE AND ALWAYS DELIGHTFUL OLI REYES LOOKS BACK ON THE FILM-CUM-MUSICAL “EMIR,” AND WHY IT NEEDED TO BE SUCH (A MUSICAL, NOT A FILM).
July 16th, 2010
THE BALANCE OF POWER: THE BEATLES IN MONO
HOW MANY BEATLES BOX SETS CAN YOU OWN? APPARENTLY, THE HOLY GRAIL-TYPE SEARCH FOR THE “DEFINITIVE VERSION” OF THE BEATLES’ DISCOGRAPHY HAS NOT ENDED. ELY BUENDIA MAKES HIS PULSE DEBUT WITH AN IMPASSIONED CASE FOR (AND AGAINST) “THE BEATLES IN MONO.”
July 9th, 2010
PART-FILIPINO CHILL-WAVE ENTHUSIAST TORO Y MOI CREATES DANCE MUSIC FOR THE LOVELORN SO EFFECTIVE YOU’D BE BAWLING OVER WHILE STRUTTING.
May 31st, 2010
A QUESTION OF TONGUES: ON JÓNSI’S GO
ICELANDIC, HOPELANDIC, ENGLISH: JÓNSI MAY BE ABLE TO SPEAK IN TONGUES, BUT HIS FANTASY-REPLETE PERSONA SPEAKS LOUDER.
May 17th, 2010
RICO BLANCO: “NEON LIGHTS (NEBULA)”
IF BLANCO’S USUAL STRENGTH IS HIS FIRM GRASP ON ORIGINAL FILIPINO-FLAVORED POP ROCK, HIS OTHER STRENGTH, IT HAS TO BE SAID, LIES IN HIS MASTERFUL APPROPRIATION OF THE ‘80S.
May 4th, 2010
SLEEPWALK CIRCUS: GREAT SECRET SHOW
THE TERNO DEBUT BY SLEEPWALK CIRCUS ENCHANTS, BEDAZZLES, AND PUTS ONE IN AN AURAL DREAM STATE.
April 28th, 2010
DAVID BYRNE & FATBOY SLIM: HERE LIES LOVE
NARRATIVE TO A FAULT, “HERE LIES LOVE” IS A RIGIDLY CHRONOLOGICAL, RELENTLESSLY FACTUAL RETELLING OF THE IMELDA MARCOS STORY, BEGINNING WITH HER HUMBLE ORIGINS UNTIL AROUND THE TIME OF THE MARCOSES’ EXPULSION TO HAWAII IN 1986.
April 26th, 2010
A.J. SCHNACK: KURT COBAIN: ABOUT A SON
COBAIN CEASES BEING WHAT HE HATED (I.E., “A CARTOON CHARACTER”) IN A.J. SCHNACK’S INSPIRED AND BEAUTIFULLY SHOT BIOPIC. THE NIRVANA SINGER’S BEEN DEAD SIXTEEN YEARS NOW THIS “CRUELEST MONTH” OF APRIL.
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