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There is a perfectly valid reason why this piece did not come out earlier. I needed to wait for YouTube videos to turn up so I could watch it from my computer, because at the time when Taking Back Sunday were doing their Manila concert, I almost didn’t see anything.
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I’ve expressed devastation at the lack of good rock shows in the Philippines for years, but this was before hope came in the form of Trent Reznor's glowing flesh on stage . Since this event, things only got brighter, through manifestations of Claudio Sanchez's hair and Chino Moreno's provocative dancing —...
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Outside a small, nondescript bar in Thamel , a tourist district in in Kathmandu, Nepal , is a handwritten window sign saying “live jazz.” Not exactly a conventional sight in a place dotted with souvenir shops, trek agencies, and guest houses—a stretch of street where life seems fleeting, hundreds of voi...
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The first time I listened to Don McLean ’s music, I was not listening to Don McLean’s music. Weird Al Yankovic sang a song called “ The Saga Begins ,” a song alluding to Star Wars, chronicling the fate of Star Wars character Anakin Skywalker. I absolutely loved it—I waited for the video to appear on MTV, ...
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“Hot can be cool and cool can be hot and each can be both. But hot or cool man, jazz is jazz,” goes a famous quote by Louis Armstrong.
This sentiment is echoed in the poster for a recent jazz event in the Philippines, which boldly proclaims "This is jazz!"
There's jazz in the Philippines? What, did you ...
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