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17 July 2018

The Rundown Slam: NJPW Dominion

06/20/2018 05:09:00 PM

There's a reason why NJPW has been THE wrestling show as of late. Forget WWE for a moment. Even without the sudden jumping-ship by Chris Jericho, this wrestling promotion from the East has been producing stellar shows and a bunch of exceptional talents that we are now seeing in Vince McMahons company in the West (Thanks, Hunter and NXT!).

16 July 2018

Bikers go the "Extra Mile" during the UD Trucks Bike Race Challenge

07/13/2018 11:00:27 PM



Last month saw the Filipino-Chinese Amateur Athletic Federation, together with its pool of co-presenters, held the first UD Trucks Bike Race Challenge at Alabang, Mutinlupa City. The event saw over a thousand bikers exhibiting the Going the Extra Mile Attitude as the accepted the challenge and survived the heat and race pressure en route to victory.

14 July 2018

Upcoming: The Rest Is Noise 26

07/13/2018 10:20:14 PM

Event poster from TRIN event page
After nearly half-a-year from their last bar outing, The Rest Is Noise is back and a return to Route 196 seems a teasing step on what lies ahead for the music event outfit come their biggest shows later this year.

13 July 2018

PlayBack: Veronica and I (self-titled EP)

05/22/2018 02:19:11 PM

It was probably a worthwhile wait for the real-couple Veronica Macato and Mike Ducusin, together with the band they formed called Veronica and I, to produce another product out of their love for music – and we mean a record; a five-track self-titled EP which was launched in October of 2017.

12 July 2018

Upcoming: Cross-Genre Thursday with The Bloomfields, et. al.!

07/11/2018 01:30:48 PM

It's another cross-genre night at Adriatico's premier live music venue featuring one of the iconic OPM bands of the late-2000s.

11 July 2018

Upcoming: RadioManila Girls Night Out

07/11/2018 12:42:25 PM

Just a few weeks after its return to Makati and staging a different-than-usual gig, RadioManila Productions will wage its second “Girls Night Out” at saGuijo this Wednesday evening.

07 July 2018

Upcoming: MWF 3 - Republika

07/06/2018 12:20:30 AM

Event poster by Manuel Mesina III
Fresh from the success of its second show, Manila Wrestling Federation is set to return to UP Diliman this Sunday for the promotion's third #AksyoNovela episode titled Republika.

Upcoming: Final Round Promotions Night 25

07/05/2018 11:35:45 PM

FRP logo by Kenneth Sese. Photo from Facebook.

Final Round Promotions will throw a party this Saturday in time for birthday of one of its pioneer members.

Upcoming: March Of The Penguins 54

07/06/2018 06:53:11 PM

March of the Penguins will stage a special Saturday evening gig at Route 196 in Quezon City just in time for the celebration of 11th anniversary of the Pinoy Penguin Studio.

05 July 2018

PlayBack: Bita and The Botflies – Tagu-Taguan

06/05/2018 05:12:40 AM

There's a reason why this blues quintet had made it big time–well, as early as 2016. This song is has the answer to the 'whys.'

04 July 2018

Upcoming: Let Gravity "Defy" music video launch

07/03/18 10:06:48 PM

Warner Music Philippines and RadioManila Productions team up in a music video launch for Let Gravity's track titled “Defy (Never Say Die)” to be held this Wednesday evening at The 70's Bistro in Quezon City.

01 July 2018

The New Act to Follow

05/27/2018 03:21:33 AM

Just this past month, in a middle of the Bruno Mars concert, the said Grammy-award winning recording artist have noticed the potion of his audience seeing their cameras raised instead of just enjoying the live and raw thing. It was an interesting scenery and thought to ponder on for a while. And this, probably, has been a norm nowadays no matter how partly-distracting it may seem for both artists, performers, and organizers.

28 June 2018

Upcoming: JLE Music LIVE #1

06/27/2018 08:49:48 PM



The one-man documentation guy organizes his first gig ever, and it's all happening this Thursday!

PlayBack: Carousel Casualties – Flats (music video)

06/05/2018 04:18:50 AM

Nearly two years after reestablishment, the first step that Carousel Casualties made is releasing their very first song titled FLATS. Together with five other songs, Flats became the band's first living testament of changing sounds through their first-released EP titled Madison – a derivative from the song itself.

25 June 2018

Mano-a-Mano with Marc Abaya

06/06/2018 12:50:57 PM

It was a steady Thursday night at Route 196 where actor-musician Marc Abaya staged a bar tour regarding “Red Bleeds To Blue,” his first work as a solo artist.

Initially, questions pops up in the minds of every music aficionado who followed his work for barely 1 ½ decades as Abaya takes a leap of fate this year, and ahead of time when his band is about to hit Singapore and Dubai for the next two months.

Yours truly had a catch-up talk with the Kjwan frontman regarding his latest solo act.