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Guru Weekly's Buzz for Nov 18 to 24
Guru, Published on 18/11/2022
» Our pick of the most exciting products, activities, art exhibitions, shows, food and hotel deals.
Tunes for the chill season
Life, John Clewley, Published on 09/11/2022
» The music scene has been given a boost this year with the return of tourists and the reopening of entertainment venues. Festivals are returning to the provinces this month and the local circuits for rock and luk thung are back, too. The summer festival season in Europe, Japan and North America also returned and coincided with lots of summer and now winter music releases. The World Beat desk is groaning under the weight of new music.
Spellbinding collaboration proves less is more
Life, John Clewley, Published on 21/06/2022
» I once had the rare privilege to see the great bluesman and songwriter Earl King, who wrote the New Orleans Mardi Gras anthem Big Chief, perform in a small club in Tokyo. Before he took to the stage another band performed, with a well-known young blues guitarist playing fast action licks and riffs at breakneck speed. In complete contrast, when Earl King played guitar he played far fewer notes, paring down the music to its essentials. I can still remember King's playing, but I can't recall anything the young pretender played.
Nora dance gets Unesco nod
Life, John Clewley, Published on 21/12/2021
» Nora, a traditional folk dance-drama from southern Thailand, was awarded intangible cultural heritage status by Unesco last week. The distinctive dance form joins khon and Thai traditional massage on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Expelling the family pest, killer 'mouse', brave canal hug
News, Mae Moo, Published on 19/09/2021
» Don't bag that head
Rom-com gone wrong
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 13/11/2020
» When you're still single in your 30s and your parents keep pressuring you to find someone to settle down with every time you visit home during the holidays, what would you do? Well, you get yourself a holidate.
Thai tunes get an electronic twist
Life, Published on 10/11/2020
» Sala Sudasiri Sobha is back on track with a live performance by lo-fi electronic duo Nisatiwa on Saturday at 4pm.
Don't @ Her
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 12/04/2020
» As an artist/producer, Arca's always fixed her attention on the negative space between each cavernous, distorted beat.
Go further west
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 23/02/2020
» Throughout their decades-spanning career in the music biz, Pet Shop Boys have always operated within the realm of sophisticated synth-pop that advocates varying degrees of dancefloor abandon. For lyricist Neil Tennant and composer Chris Lowe, however, it's not just about the allure of club culture or pure hedonism. From day one, social consciousness gets woven into the sonic fabric of their music. "In a West End town, a dead-end world/ The East End boys and West End girls," Tennant sings about the class and wealth gap on their 1984 debut single West End Girls.
Find your inner mystic
B Magazine, Chanun Poomsawai, Published on 02/02/2020
» It's been nearly half-a-decade since Dan Deacon's last album, Gliss Riffer, was unleashed onto the world. On that acclaimed 2015 release, the Baltimore-based composer tackled and found solace in the finality of life through head-spinning highlights like When I Was Done Dying and Sheathed Wings. It was also the first album since his debut LP, Spiderman Of The Rings, that he recorded and produced himself.