Popwire Speaks With… He Shuming, the writer-director of Ajoomma
Heralded as the first-ever Singapore-South Korea co-produced feature film, Ajoomma has been making international waves in the short time since...
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Popwire Speaks With RENE on Her Frog Friend Tan Boon Kiat, Avril Lavigne, and Her Long-Awaited Debut EP ‘Something To Hide’
The singer-songwriters we’ve had on Popwire all have great music and stories to share. In most (unintentional) singer-songwriter fashion, it...
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Popwire Speaks with Montreal-based Japanese Psych-Punk Rockers TEKE::TEKE
With seven members in their ranks, Montreal-based TEKE::TEKE knows how to turn Japanese psych-rock into an experimental jam. Featuring traditional Japanese instruments, flute, and trombone alongside raging guitars and a pulsing rhythm section, TEKE::TEKE creates a sound reminiscent of 1960’s...
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Popwire Speaks With Glasgow’s Glam Goth Art Pop’s Best, Walt Disco
Walt Disco are a band whose influences derive not from just music itself, but much more so from love, glamour,...
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Break It Down: yams Gives Us the 411 on His Latest Album Ahead of the Release Date
Known for not shying away from dark topics such as family trauma and political commentary, multi-hyphenate producer and singer-songwriter yams...
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Popwire Speaks With Electrico On Hitting Reset With ‘B-sides Live at the Power Station’
Growing up in the era where Singapore’s Indie Rock music scene was just starting out, it was always a treat to catch Indie Alt-Rock OG band Electrico perform live alongside the rest of the Indie Rock bands (also OGs as...
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Break It Down: Subsonic Eye and Their 3rd Album Release, ‘Nature of Things’
Having burst into the local music scene back in 2017, Singaporean noise-rock mainstays, Subsonic Eye has made a conscious effort...
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Popwire Speaks With… Chew Chia Shao Min and Joant Úbeda, directors of Singaporean documentary Sementara
Filmed during Singapore’s Golden Jubilee celebrations in 2015, documentarians Chew Chia Shao Min and Joant Úbeda set out to interview...
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Popwire Speaks With Thai Dystopian Pop Singer-Producer Pyra On ‘yellow fever’
Having released upbeat sugar-glossed satire of modern age consumerism, ‘plastic world’, to the menacing politically-charged rap ‘bangkok’ previously, Thai visionary singer-producer Pyra is determined to provoke thinking and drive positive social change through all aspects of her art. With crafting...
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Kitsuné Musique Presents Women’s Day 24h Mix In partnership with shesaid.so
March has always been a main focal month for women to commemorate not just the highs of achievements made in...
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