KITCHIE NADAL talks about her new album, “Love Letter.” Some of the songs in this 17-track album were done in collaboration with other artists.
Video taken by INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia.
By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net
THE INTERNET has proven to be a great way to discover talented amateur acts. All it takes is a great song, a musical instrument and a handy camcorder and you’re well on your way to viral video stardom. Singers like Colbie Caillat and even our very own Charisse Pempengco were both discovered through online-generated buzz.
Marié Digby claimed her spotlight the same way; videos of her singing and playing the guitar in front of her living room couch endeared her to online viewers.
Marié (pronounced ma-ree-AY) Digby is a singer-songwriter who was catapulted into the music limelight, thanks to her homemade videos online. Her rendition of the popular hit “Umbrella” is viewed 20,000 times a day on YouTube and videos of her original compositions are well received by online fans.
CHECK out this video interview that INQUIRER.net multimedia reporter Erika Tapalla did for iVDO on Yahoo!
Erika talked to Urbandub band members (L-R) Gabby Alipe, Lalay Lim, John Dinopol and John Mendoza.
Video taken at the EMI office at Universal Tower on Nov. 22.
For more info on Urbandub, visit their official site.
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
I RECENTLY got this e-mail message that says Odysseylive.net is live. Labeled as a “social music network.” So I went to check it out. First impressions: Odysseylive.net seems to have covered all bases. It has streaming music, featured blogs, news about gigs, and classified ads. For artists (or those who want to be a rock star), you can register and upload some of your music. You can also invite friends to join this social music network. It was also quite easy to set up a profile.
The service is still in “super beta.” I am not sure what that means. But I did notice some bugs as I went in to check out the service. You don’t have to register though to listen to the streaming music of featured Pinoy artists on the homepage. What’s interesting here is that you can also upload up to 10 megabytes of data (photos, music, etc.) to your own profile. Personally, I don’t think that’s enough. But this is still the super beta version, hehe.
As I went in to check some of the streaming music available, I found this interesting collection of Filipino bands compiled in an album called Bandtrip2. You can listen to at least 12 of the songs in the album. I thought, “What if you want to download the music you’re listening to?” Hmmm. Currently, you can only listen to the music available online but there are no indications if the music is for sale or available for download.
Here’s another discovery: Beach Head with their chillout (with a mix of hip hop) song called “Freestyle.” According to the group’s profile, “Beach Head is a project band that writes, records and shoots video’s during the songs composition. ” A quick check reveals that Beach Head is apparently a side project of Urbandub’s Gabbie Alipe together with the Kerplunk boys. Beach Head also has a nice video available on YouTube.
By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
I THOUGHT it was about a little fish that got lost… er, oh, that was Nemo!
Okay, this has been “bugging” me since I heard a teenage kid say to hairstylist, “I want an emo haircut.” What is an emo haircut? And why are kids today going gaga over anything that’s emo? For starters, emo, as shown by the need for disambiguation in Wikipedia, is a topic that leads to other topics. So that means, emo can mean different things to people, as this blog attests.
I understand emo as I understood the headbanging rockers in the 80s, the grunge movement in the 90s, and well, the hippies in the 60s and 70s. But again, these are terms that are often used loosely (read: abused).
