Mariah Reodica, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph Fri, 05 Jul 2024 13:24:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 /wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-logo-nwp-32x32.png Mariah Reodica, Author at newswatchplus.ph https://www.newswatchplus.ph 32 32 Lend Your Ears: New music from Denise Julia, Waiian, and more https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/12/05/lend-your-ears-new-music-from-denise-julia-waiian-and-more/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:22:16 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= We’re ending the year with a bang thanks to local R&B, hip-hop, and house music. In photo: Denise Julia. Photo courtesy of the artist

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]]> KINDRED redefines the Pinoy boy band https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/11/14/kindred-redefines-the-pinoy-boy-band/ Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:28:01 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= KINDRED’s debut album “Subset” is a lovingly crafted mixtape of each member's interests, inclinations, and idiosyncrasies. Photo courtesy of the band

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]]> Lend Your Ears: New music from Armi Millare, YARA, New:ID, and more https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/11/07/lend-your-ears-new-music-from-armi-millare-yara-newid-and-more/ Tue, 07 Nov 2023 12:08:04 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= Here are some of the exciting music releases from the past month. In photo: New:ID's "E.R" music video. Screencap from MLD ENTERTAINMENT/YOUTUBE

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]]> Taiwan’s World Music Festival offers a global stage less reliant on western validation https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/10/26/taiwans-world-music-festival-offers-a-global-stage-less-reliant-on-western-validation/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 12:39:07 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= ADG7’s mindbogglingly imaginative take on Korean traditional instruments and shamanic singing was irresistibly danceable. Photo courtesy of 2023 WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL TAIWAN

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]]> Lend Your Ears: New music from Loonie, Valley of Chrome, KINDRED ft. Sharon Cuneta, and more https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/10/09/lend-your-ears-new-music-from-loonie-valley-of-chrome-kindred-ft-sharon-cuneta-and-more/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 14:51:14 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= Boy group KINDRED released "Megastar (Interlude)" featuring the megastar herself, Sharon Cuneta. Screencap from KINDREDVEVO/YOUTUBE

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]]> All flew over the Turtle’s Nest: an oral history of the Cebu space where art and freedom thrived https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/09/26/all-flew-over-the-turtles-nest-an-oral-history-of-the-cebu-space-where-art-and-freedom-thrived/ Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:13:04 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= The closure of Kukuk’s Nest ends a chapter in Cebu’s rich subculture. Photo by ZACH ALDAVE

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]]> Cebu welcomes a new era of art books https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/09/06/cebu-welcomes-a-new-era-of-art-books/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 13:19:20 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= The Philippines has a strong lineage of how art takes the form of a book, and how books are recognized as art in themselves — just look at the Cebu Art Book Fair. Photo courtesy of CEBU ART BOOK FAIR

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]]> “Behind the transcendent, DIY \nsound of ((( O )))” https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/09/04/behind-the-transcendent-diy-nsound-of-o/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:20:16 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= Humanity and spirituality coalesce in the music of producer and songwriter ((( O ))). Photo by INEZ MORO via THE SUNDROP GARDEN/INSTAGRAM

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]]> Lend Your Ears: New music from Urbandub, Juan Karlos, DJ Young and Paul Pablo, and more https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/08/29/lend-your-ears-new-music-from-urbandub-juan-karlos-dj-young-and-paul-pablo-and-more/ Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:16:44 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= While CNN’s monthly round-up actively seeks out music from different regions of the Philippines, it would be a disservice to say that certain music is defined, and thus limited, to where it’s from. Popular music, after all, is the result of a diverse range of influences, crossing borders between the local and foreign, the urban

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]]> Lend Your Ears: New music from Lola Amour, Regine Velasquez, Antemundane, and more https://www.newswatchplus.ph/2023/08/02/lend-your-ears-new-music-from-lola-amour-regine-velasquez-antemundane-and-more/ Wed, 02 Aug 2023 15:36:13 +0000 https://www.newswatchplus.ph/?p= Music to lend your ears to, rain or shine. In photo: A still from Lola Amour's "Raining in Manila" lyric video. Photo from LOLA AMOUR/YOUTUBE

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