For some it may seem like a normal 9-5 Wednesday (15/05), but for music enthusiasts, it was a surreal dream come true. Big Sound Festival (BSF) 2013, one of the most talked festivals in South-east Asia happened at Lapangan D Senayan. Blur, the Temper Trap, Tegan And Sara, and Van She were ready to give a musical earthquake. [...]
Dialog Dini Hari is not a new comer, that is for sure. Formed in 2008, the band was initiated by Dadang from Navicula and Mark and Ian from Kaimsasikun. Dialog Dini Hari was where their ideas might flow diversely from their identity-genre. In layers of folk, blues, and ballad, Dialog Dini Hari poetically delivers their [...]
The Arctic Monkeys’ fans community in Indonesia are growing rapidly. They have hundreds of twitter followers on Arctic Monkeys Bandung’s twitter page. Arctic Monkeys Bandung already held two events to show their love to Arctic Monkeys. Now it’s time to Arctic Monkeys Jakarta to bring their guts! After the AM’s fans in Jakarta did a gathering, they [...]
Whoopee, it’s weekend already! We can feel your cheery excitement as Sunday comes along. If you plan to just chillin’ around, we have found you a perfect company for your breakfast or a weekend ride around the park. The Local Vocal for this week is a duo of Ananda Badudu and Rara Sekar, along with [...]
Before kicking in with Blur, Tegan & Sara, The Temper Trap and Van She at Big Sound Festival, let’s have some preheat session with great names like the Kooks, Delphic and the Radio Dept. The pre-event was held on April 24th 2013 at Tennis Indoor Senayan. Unlike most of the festivals, the situation and the [...]
“What is the first thing that crossed your mind when you hear the word ‘Post-rock’?” I’ve asked that question to most of the attendees of Japanese Post-Rockers, MONO concert in Bandung, Indonesia last week, and most of them said… “Ambience” Mono’s gig in Bandung, Indonesia was their third gig in Indonesia. After their first gig [...]
After a big success with RRRECFEST #1 and RRRECFEST #2 Ruang Rupa is back with RRREC FEST THE SHOWCASE which will take place at Halaman Teater Besar Taman Ismail Marzuki on April 7th 2013. Quoting from rrec fest on twitter “This festival aims to celebrate music as art form and an important part of contemporary [...]
In spite of the heavy rain, the football match, and the Earth Hour, many decided to spend their Saturday night (23/03) nodding their heads to good music at the Upper Room, Annex Building. Held by BSO Band Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Indonesia and presented as the biggest indie music festival in Jakarta, Music Gallery is back!
8 years, that is pretty much how long we have been waiting to see Bloc Party having a show in Jakarta (20/03). We actually have caught some of them doing a DJ set before (Russel Lissack, Kele Okereke, and Matt Tong have done that in Jakarta). The rumour of them to break up had put [...]
Last Saturday (16/03), everyone who came to Pizza e Birra, Gandaria City got their first experience for something new and magical. Grimes would be having a show for the couple of hours before her birthday, people came to see Grimes for the very first time. Claire Boucher, who is famously known as Grimes, got her [...]
Another concert another series of “Bet You Didn’t Know”! Since Bloc Party will have a show in Jakarta on March 20th 2013 (which is also the band’s first ever show in the city and let’s say ‘ Thank You‘ to Ismaya Live for bringing them), We have collected some facts that You might still think [...]
