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Tuesday, September 09 2008

 

Blindsided

Third Eye Blind is this year’s main attraction at Oktoberfest

A full decade may have passed since Stephan Jenkins first displayed his tongue-twisting singing skills on the smash hit “Semi-Charmed Life.” But his band Third Eye Blind still packed in the crowds on their one-off show Friday night in Ortigas Center.

Of course, it may have helped that they were here to headline the kickoff of San Miguel Beer’s annual Oktoberfest extravaganza, which draws in thick beer-guzzling audiences every year regardless of who’s on the marquee. Regardless, the fast-approaching-middle-age trio of Jenkins, Tony Fredianelli and Brad Hargreaves proved they still had it in them when they performed their alternative rock hits in front of a visibly delighted, if somewhat slightly intoxicated set of party revelers.

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MAN ON THE SIDE
By Paul John Caña

In the new album Sugarfree Live! with the Manila Symphony Orchestra, there is a moment during the third-to-the-last song “Makita Kang Muli” that singer Ebe Dancel’s voice breaks ever so slightly.

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Boys Like Girls brings edgy emo music  

To be young, in love and broken-hearted—that’s the feeling you’ll get when you listen to Boys Like Girls. It’s emo music by any other name—quietly screaming emotive vocals, heart-on-your-sleeve sensitivity, a cosmetic veneer of punk...

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Win the band competition and learn from your idols  

This is no ordinary band competition. With the Nescafé Soundskool Mentorship Program, the winning band gets to learn from the masters of Pinoy rock today.

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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon

The problem with love is that everybody uses the same word to describe very different things. There are more definitions of love than there are grains of sand. And even if two persons agree on a definition, they disagree about the... 

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