The awfully convenient world of vinyl

Maybe nowadays, it became greater the number of releases and special editions on vinyl where many are designed in a more modern, extravagant and colorful way, and even with new packaging. These "special" editions are the justification for dealing with the high price tag that the Record Sto...

MAYDAY SG Festival 2019

Floridian rock band Mayday Parade is set to return to Singapore on 1st of May 2019 headlining Skesh Entertainment's second installment punk/rock/emo full-day festival, aptly titled MAYDAY! SG. On the lineup will see Australian pop punk band With Confidence making their debut stop in Singapore. Regio...

Sunshine Event

The sunshine nation is an entity that was created in the year 2012. Since then the organization has become anonymous with great music, people and events. This is an entity that has been responsible for large scale festivals like the one they did at Fort Canning, hosting yacht parties around the Anda...

Role of the fans

"Support local!" — This is a simple word or slogan that completely depends on involvement in circles around you; it can be a refrain even as a command. "Support local lah," the sheepish comment that was given by a musician who was on the stage "Support local", a p...

Music scene uncovered

This article aims to reveal the backdrop of Singapore's music scene, as a wide range of musicians and artistes provide their share of the story. The music scene went from a quiet dead period to a lively one. It has been more than 20 years since rock and roll was banished underground, bars are prohib...

A trip back history lane

Well-known singing competition organized by Radio Malaya named Talentime in the 1950's ignited huge following from citizens of Singapore and Malaysia. Many amateur singers started forming local bands to produce locally made music. The next decades saw the growth in live performance music and success...

Singapore music business acumen

If one looks closely and scout around in details, pouncing at every opportunity, something will materialize. That was apt for the case for Singapore's homegrown music entrepreneur named Mah Chern Wei. A latest trending news was on the front page music scene where renowned giant Fender, a producer fo...

Singaporean musicians pay tribute to Prince

2016 was a fiasco, we lost last year celebrities like Maurice White, Phife Dawg, David Bowie, George Martin, Glenn Frey, Alan Rickman, George Michael and so many others. We were devastated recently by Prince's death that shook us as much as in January with David Bowie's death.

Prince helped to form a...

1960

The era of 1960, showered the Singapore people with the melodious music. At that time, various local bands proved their talent with the original compositions and became popular by giving stage performances featuring live and recorded albums successfully. This is the era where the opportunity for the...

Rock The PoP And Shake the Break

Singapore has different communities and different music cultures which range from western music to classical music. For a long period, Singapore is the center of the music industry. In the year 1960, many people were inspired by the Western music and in the year 1980, many pop industries entered int...

Edward and its Magnetic Zeros

The Edward Sharpe and its magnetic zeros have started their music career before ten years, but it seems that their album up from below which was inspired by love of summer has&...

Old School Singapore Music

The release of the first musical keyboard of Singapore with ethnic local sounds has been announced. The players at Korg, one of Japan's makers of musical instruments has coupled with&#...

Manfred Lim

April 2018 latest news: Gentle Bones & MYRNE's B4NGER PROJECT album out now on all digital platforms. Manfred Lim, or as known as MYRNE, is a Singaporean music producer which often ...

KIDS, The band

On a Friday night in March, by 8:30 pm and I was at Legendary Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles eagerly awaiting the restoration of Florida rock / emo band further seems forever. ...

Evolution of UB40

Many people are confused with British pop band UB40. The first version of the band was disbanded when lead singer and vocalist Ali Campbell quit the original member group to seek a brand new solo career. In 2013, Mickey Virtue, the lead keyboardist and Astro, the lead percussionist joined Ali to for...

Getai Group

It was in 2015 when Timothy De Cotta, Carmen Low as well as Lionel Ang discovered the Getai Group. They have exerted so much effort in trying to pursue the local arts as...

Dick Lee tells how to be True Blue Singaporean

Dick Lee is a famous music icon in Singapore. In an interview conducted for the 938 LIVE's Bharati Jagdish that it took him some time to build the guts to say that the music he wrote is based on a Singaporean concept. Dick Lee is one of the finest music icons in Singapore. He is a singer and a songw...

CULT tracks

CULT, the latest album from Caulfield Cult, is by far the most mature album so far, with a total of 23 minutes playing time. As one listens from track to track from start&#...