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Posted on 03 July 2008Judging from the popularity of the Rainforest World Music Festival with KL-ites, expect the streets to be eerily empty come 11 to 13 July as thousands make their annual pilgrimmage to the Sarawak Cultural Village in Santubong for a weekend of good music, good partying, good drinking and a good break away from the drudgeries of the city.
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Posted on 23 July 2008Once in a while, we look beyond our borders to discover what’s rocking up on the regional music front. Thankfully Impulse, brought to you by Heineken Music and our brotha’ Junk, makes the research a little easier by curating a list of performers and visual artists whose names we all should look out for
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Posted on 23 July 2008Remember when Canadian princess Avril Lavigne first appeared on our radar in the early millennium? In the midst of saccharine sweet and virginal pop stars like Jessica Simpson and Mandy Moore, Lavigne was marketed as the opposite with her “punk” image
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Posted on 23 July 2008Gigs in the Valley can get repetitive after a while. It’s always the same names, at the same venues with a bazaar thrown in for good measure. After all, what good is a gig these days if you don’t have a little shopping going on?
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Posted on 30 July 2008Fat Boys Records’ Pesta Malam Indonesia was a landmark undertaking bridging the gap between serious music lovers here and in our southern neighbour, and the festival did for the massive but under-satiated Indo rock crowd here what Rock the World did for the alternative rock scene – the PMI gave it a sense of solidarity, a shared purpose and pride in loving an art form unfairly maligned for being perceived as a disruption to the local music industry.
