Newsletter: Linya-Linya Land 2024 is Back Around the Block with Diverse Music, Comedy, and Performance Art Acts

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Linya-Linya Land returns this 2024 with an exciting line-up of local talent that celebrates diversity across different lines of antics, artistry, and advocacy for the Ka-Linya community and beyond. 

Newsletter: Bullet Dumas, Shirebound, Dicta License, The Ridleys, Munimuni, Ena Mori and more to headline GNN Year-End Party

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The Manila-based events production caps off a great year in live music

GNN (Gabi Na Naman Productions), an events and multimedia company, wraps up 2024 with an inaugural party that celebrates a festive year in live music.

Newsletter: Ely Buendia to launch new album, Method Adapter with a special full-length show

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Ely Buendia is set to celebrate the release of his upcoming album, Method Adaptor with an official launch at 123 Block in Mandaluyong City on November 8, 2024, from 7 p.m. onwards.

Newsletter: The Itchyworms to launch own brand of craft beer with a special show

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Filipino pop-rock icons The Itchyworms are celebrating the release of their own brand of craft beers with a music event that features some of their friends and favorites in the local music scene.

Newsletter: Japanese alt-rock band Hitsujibungaku to perform in Manila for the first time in July 2024!

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UPDATE: EARLY BIRD TICKETS ARE ALREADY SOLD OUT AS OF MAY 1!

It’s official: Japanese alternative rock trio Hitsujibungaku will be staging their first headline show in Manila this July 6, 2024 (Saturday) at 123 Block in Mandaluyong City, Philippines.

Newsletter: UDD, Cheats, Chicosci, Clara Benin, Ena Mori and more to headline #GNN9

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The events production company celebrates its ninth year in the local music scene with a show at 123 Block

GNN (Gabi Na Naman Productions), an events production company, is throwing a birthday party to celebrate nine years of producing local and international shows for the Filipino audience.

The Gigs: Where To Catch Your Favorite OPM Bands (v. 2024, Part 2 of 2)

03/30/2024 04:15:43 PM

I first wrote The Gigs as part of the music issue of the Philippine Panorama (Yes, the Sunday magazine of Manila Bulletin) back in February 2018, wherein I featured some of the places which houses live music scene. Add to that is how and why online is also the place to be if one looks for sources of new music.

Fast-forward to 2024: It has been two years since the time the Manila gig scene resurfaced for good. The months of February and March were the times when music events had its full-blown resurrection for good after being halted by another wave of community quarantine at the start of the year 2022. Some of us have to understand that this was an era of a convergence of the new normal and returning norms as some of our beloved venues closed, a bunch of personalities we know passed away (be it due to COVID or not), and everything noisy has mostly been made virtually. As we know it, the shutdown has put us in uncertainty; but eventually, we found our way back to hum tunes with our voices and instruments. 

In 2022, we may have been walloping over the closure of Upperhouse, Conspiracy Garden Cafe and Route 196 (along with other shops and restaurants in various business fields that we didn't have chances to bade farewell), but new houses emerged to serve live music and all the merrymaking we barely missed that two-year stretch, and that was something we discussed a while ago.

For more of The Gigs, we shed the spotlight on the other names which probably rang the bell, also made their respective returns – although, in different locations. Add to that are the reopening of the venues that remained alive and kicking up to this day.

Newsletter: Filipino comedy group The KoolPals celebrate five years of awesomeness with a comedy and music fest

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Dilaw, Johnoy Danao, Kween Yasmin and more will be joining the festive fun this summer

Everyone gather 'round and prepare yourselves for the most gut-wrenching, heart-pounding, and ESOPHAGUS-tickling show of the year!

Witnessing 25 Years of Musical Brilliance from the Fire woman

03/22/2023 08:55:25 PM

Author's Note: Barbie Almalbis held her 25th anniversary concert earlier this month. And it wasn't just a typical milestone night for someone who celebrates a quarter of her existence as a musician, because this singer-songwriter didn't just perform as a solo act – it was also a reunion show for Hungry Young Poets and Barbie's Cradle, two of the notable names in the OPM band explosion era during the 1990s and 2000s.

The stage was set at 123 Block in Mandala Park, Mandaluyong City; and so many titos and titas of Manila were the witnesses for a Saturday evening of nostalgia. At this point, I'll let my correspondent Dan Labayo tell the story of what went around the Firewoman show. 

Newsletter: Ebe Dancel to stage repeat of “Sa Wakas: 20th Anniversary” Concert

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Due to insistent public demand, Filipino singer-songwriter Ebe Dancel stages a repeat of Sa Wakas: 20th Anniversary Celebration, happening on March 31, 2023 (Friday), from 6pm onwards at 123 Block, Mandala Park.

Newsletter: M1LDL1FE, Kindred, Munimuni, Lola Amour and more to perform at this year’s GNN Year End Party

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After bringing Indonesian folk-pop superstar Pamungkas to Manila and staging a sold-out concert at Solaire featuring some of the most iconic women in Pinoy rock, GNN Entertainment ends the year on a festive note with their annual year-end festival happening at 123 Block in Mandala Park, Mandaluyong City, on December 17, 2022 (Saturday), from 3 p.m. onwards.