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Seventeen will be first K-pop group to perform at famed Glastonbury Festival
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 25/03/2024
» Here's the latest K-pop news this week. Seventeen will become the first K-pop group to perform at Glastonbury Festival and BamBam will hold his solo world tour finale at Rajamangala National Stadium.
Mango sticky rice-eating Milli drops album on YouTube
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 22/11/2022
» In the middle of November, Danupha "Milli" Khanatheerakul, a Thai rapping sensation, released her 10-track album Babb Bum Bum (Extravagant) on YouTube. Most people recognise Milli as the singer who caused mango sticky rice sales to surge after she ate the dessert onstage at Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the US. Babb Bum Bum proves that this 20-year-old rapper is not famous by chance. Milli is a versatile performer who works hard to achieve her goal.
Justin Timberlake sells song catalogue to Hipgnosis
Life, Published on 30/05/2022
» Justin Timberlake has sold the rights to his songs including hits such as Cry Me A River and Rock Your Body to Hipgnosis Song Management, the latest pop star to cash in on his body of work in the red-hot market for music streaming.
The ballad of Junior Parker
Life, John Clewley, Published on 06/07/2021
» Train I ride sixteen coaches long, Train I ride sixteen coaches long, Well, that long black train carries my baby home …
Real women rock
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 05/07/2020
» "Los Angeles, give me a miracle/ I just want out from this," Este, Danielle and Alana Haim waste no time getting down to the (ugly) business of their hometown on the ska-infused opening track of their latest album Women In Music Pt. III.
His Way
B Magazine, Published on 24/05/2020
» Since taking part as one of the artists at the official press conference of the expansion announcement of legendary hip-hop label Def Jam Recordings, which launched its new Def Jam South East Asia label in Singapore last September, Prinya "Way" Intachai, a former member of Thai hip-hop pioneers Thaitanium has finally released his major label debut, DaBoyWay.
Full Disclosure
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 05/04/2020
» When brothers Howard and Guy Lawrence released their impressive debut studio album Settle in 2013, the dance music landscape was already crowded with EDM artists scrambling for their next festival-sized drop. But here's a thing, they weren't looking to simply capitalise on the hype.
Indie rock done right
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 09/02/2020
» "When I was 18/ Someone got stabbed in a church/ But I got used to it/ And forgave all the ways and the names/ It was so long ago, anyways," vocalist Jeremy Gaudet recounts on Murder In The Cathedral, the opening track to Kiwi Jr.'s debut album, Football Money. The vivid songwriting, buoyed by his bandmates' jangly instrumentation, is delivered with the kind of drawl that would have you thinking fondly of Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and The Strokes as well as the Modern Lovers' Jonathan Richman and Parquet Courts' Andrew Savage.
… Baby one more time
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 19/01/2020
» Over the past few years, LA-based artist Sondre Lerche has made it his own little tradition to cover pop hits from the year that's been as a holiday gift to his fans. His past covers range from Miley Cyrus' Wrecking Ball and Drake's Hotline Bling to Sia's Chandelier and Beyoncé's Countdown. To cap off the end of the decade, Lerche has stepped up his game by essentially pulling a Ryan Adams circa 2015. But, instead of Taylor Swift, it's the former queen of pop, Britney Spears.
In Fine Style
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 12/01/2020
» Since the dissolution of One Direction in 2015, Harry Styles has been striving for the kind of self-reinvention that would set him apart from his peers. And if the success of his 2017 eponymous solo debut is any indication, he's on the right path towards a flourishing post-boy band career, careening down the highway of 70s-style rock stardom à la Mick Jagger and David Bowie. On his latest studio album Fine Line, these classic rock stylings make way for soaring power pop laced with folk-rock and psychedelia. And despite the record's overall heartbreak theme, Styles sounds more at ease with himself than ever.