Touchbass by Yugel Losorata
Of disbanding and reuniting
I recently encountered a witty comment from Parokya Ni Edgar frontman Chito Miranda over someone’s post asking when his band...
Eraserheads fab fillers
If you have managed to get a ticket for Eraserheads’ Huling El Bimbo reunion concert, regardless if that’s a mosh...
Night of Filipino achievers in America
Last November 19, on what was my first visit to Los Angeles, I witnessed the 21st edition of Gawad Amerika...
Filipina in Marquis Who’s Who to speak in ‘Leadership Experience Tour’
The name Joahna Tupas is familiar to me on a personal level as she is the wife of my best...
Dream pop
A Dubai-based publication, Victor Magazine, recently included a Filipina act for its recommended Top 10 Asian albums and EPs released...
Season’s star
Every Christmas time, classic and new songs embracing the spirit of the season take turns through the local airwaves, or...
Instrument of liberation
Talented guitar player Tom Morello felt that music gods forced him to stop playing during the first months of the...
Local music artist with global sound
To be described as “a Filipina with a global sound” should put any lady under pressure. At least in the...
Grace of Norway
Norwegian acts whose music touched my life popped up when I conversed with an old friend who relocated to Norway....
Book of rhythm
When the King of Talk Boy Abunda wrote in the Foreword of my new book Rhythm & Bruise that I...
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.