October 2011
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Single Review: How Could You by The Triangle
Selepas Mocca Last Show Juli kemarin, setelah Arina hijrah ke negeri Paman Sam, belum ada lagi gebrakan baru dari para personilnya yang tedengar oleh kami. Hingga kami stumbled upon dengan satu band baru bernama The Triangle. Setelah membaca press release yang menyebutkan bahwa salah satu personilnya adalah Riko Prayitno, bassis dari Mocca, kami berpikir “ah, ini dia yang ditunggu-tunggu!”
Disini...
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Band Review: Hightime Rebellion
Berawal dari seringnya nama mereka muncul di timeline twitter saya, karena dibahas berulang kali oleh beberapa orang, semakin penasaranlah ketika mereka terpilih untuk menjadi band pembuka Tame Impala dan Chk Chk Chk pada 29 Oktober nanti. Hightime Rebellion? Ya, itu dia band yang saya maksud.
Berdasarkan myspace mereka saya tahu kalau band ini terbentuk pada tahun 2007 di Jakarta ketika para...
June 2010
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When Indie Was Truly Indie
“They just stood there, oh so neat, while they played their swinging beat….
It’s been long overdue— we’ve been needing something new—
Sophisticated boom boom!”
— The Goodies, 1964
sources: flickr.com
When we talked about indie we talk about any genre, scene, and subculture, stylistic and cultural attributes. And we talk about sophisticated...
May 2010
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World’s Indie Scene: Bandung
sources: flickr.com
Bandung is known as a hometown for indie artists for the last two decades. Bandung give rise to so many creative and innovative artists with high quality and diverse kind of music, such as hardcore, punk, death metal, rock, hip-hop, ska, gothic, reggae, pop, ballads, electric and kroncong. Just like on other parts of the world, in Indonesia indie movement grew from a...
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Free and Independent: We are the Indies!
As an introduction, we’re going to start blogging with reviewing some of the hottest indie scene around the world. We thought this going to be great, but in fact it was more than that. As our (small) research goes through online and offline media, our interest in the indie scene also groes bigger and bigger. We never see such phenomenon that represent the pop culture at its best. It’s also broaden...