How To Make A New Sound

I was reading Ian Zafra’s blog about indieculture when I happened upon an article about the effort of Cebu bands to make new sounds. It’s as if the culture of Cebu bands now is to go look for their own style and sound. (click here for more)

Bands, Beware of your Vocalists

I never really expected for such a phenomenon to go as low as this, but it already has: vocalists are leaving their bands for Tinseltown, to be “artistas”. No joke here, Marc Abaya of Kwjan and Keanne Cipriano of Calla Lily are already doing it (Ely Buendia and Jet Pangan also tried acting once too), and now Champ of Hale is following suit. (click here for more)

Lessons from Metallica

First of all, I am not sure if Metallica was the first one to come up with this concept, but since I heard it from Metallica first, I guess it’s safe that I credit the band for it. (click here for more)

Best Rock movies

There are very few films that tackle rock stories and because they are very few, it is always easy to get a hold of them. That is why I recommend bands or even rock audiences, especially the ones who have never heard of them, to start watching rock movies and hope that you learn something from it. (click here for more)

Girl Guitaristas

Working at a high school as a teacher gave me the chance to know a lot of students who had a lot of talents. There are kids who are excellent at drawing, great at playing sports and very interested about music. (click here for more)

Cebu’s Artopia

It is clear to us that the Cebu Art community is packed with talent. We do not only have great musicians, we also have great visual artists, comic artists, tattoo artists, graphic artist, poets and the list goes on. This is nothing new to us.