Category: Music
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Chad Gilbert dies at 45
Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist of pop-punk band, New Found Glory, has died at the age of 45 after a long battle with cancer. New Found Glory was one of the bands of my pop-punk years. The older I get, the more I realise that no matter what anyone says, you never really outgrow the music…
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Brian Fallon Deserves a Listen
Today sees the release of Brian Fallon & The Painkillers‘ new album, Not Bad For New Jersey. Produced by Butch Walker and featuring guests including Brandon Flowers of The Killers, it’s Fallon’s first full solo album in several years. If the name Brian Fallon doesn’t immediately ring a bell, chances are you’ve at least heard…
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The Mystery of Isosine: Where Is the Real Isosine?
I was very one-track, one-genre minded in my youth. If I liked a band, I stayed in that lane. If I liked a genre, even better. Why complicate things? Then I heard a mashup of MGMT’s Kids and Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit and something clicked. It completely changed the way I listened to music.…
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Shake It Out: A Little Reading Festival Nostalgia
I attended Reading Festival religiously throughout my twenties and into my early thirties. Somewhere along the way, however, the appeal started to fade. Maybe it was age. Maybe it was the thought of sleeping in a tent when I could be sleeping in an actual bed. Either way, I eventually stopped going. But I still…
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Amy Shark – soft pop
A reminder that finding your voice can sometimes save you I haven’t written an album review in eight years. That isn’t because I stopped listening to music. If anything, music became more important over that time. What disappeared was the writing. Writing had always been how I processed emotions, anxiety, made sense of difficult experiences,…
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This Is Home. On Vinyl.
I want this badly. Some songs need no introduction. Kit Chan’s Home is one of them. As part of its National Day project, ART/ST Records is giving one of Singapore’s most beloved National Day songs the vinyl treatment. For anyone who grew up singing “this is home, truly” at school assemblies, National Day celebrations, or…
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Four Voices, One Sound: MAMAMOO Live in Singapore
Four Voices, One Sound: MAMAMOO Live in Singapore If you had told the twenty-something version of me—walking around in Converse sneakers and listening almost exclusively to rock music—that I would one day be attending a K-pop concert, I probably would have laughed. Back then, my world revolved around rock and its many subgenres. As I’ve…
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Michelle Branch Is Back, and So Is a Piece of My Youth
Every generation has its soundtrack. For some, it’s The Beatles. For others, it’s Taylor Swift. For me, a small part of it belongs to Michelle Branch. Long before streaming algorithms told us what to listen to, there was The Spirit Room. There was Everywhere. There was All You Wanted. And there was that magical period…
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Welcome to the Black Parade
Black is my favourite colour. What’s boring about it? Absolutely nothing. It’s classy, timeless, and effortlessly cool. More importantly, I can wear it every single day without giving it a second thought. The same philosophy extends to my pickleball paddles. I’ve never been a fan of overly colourful designs. Brands, if you’re reading this, please…
