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….and it is way larger than you think. Steep in controversy, this live streaming platform continues to be popular platform bringing communities together. BIGO LIVE, a global leader in live streaming and creator economy, recently launched its server on Discord, the talk, text, and video communications service. And have recently celebrated its successful first 100 days on Discord. Established BIGO…
This American experimental band, founded by member Ryan Lott, has recently released a music video of a single released with the album Tomorrow I (2020). The single, titled Plans We Made, was first released in…
Astro is celebrating the year of the Water Tiger here in Malaysia with the UHUU2022 Chinese New Year campaign already well underway. With an extensive list of programs already being scheduled over the course of…
For a bit of fun basking in the spirit of the Chinese New Year celebration in this region, Malaysia’s nationwide health and beauty brand Watsons had already released its CNY video. Calling it the grandest…
Under exclusive license to Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc., releases new song produced and released by Doggy Style Records, Inc., Method Man & Funky Noble Productions, Inc. Global superstar, entrepreneur, a…
Taking nostalgia for Asia as his theme, Junya Watanabe has announced his Spring/Summer 2022 collection. Ryuichi Sakamoto created a new arrangement of “Tong Poo” (created initially with Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978) at the request…
Wide Open Sky follows the heart-warming story of an outback Australian children’s choir. Chronicling their journey from auditions to end-of-year concert, the trials of trying to run a children’s choir in a remote and disadvantaged…
Bangkok-based Bill Bensley is an internationally acclaimed architect. From January 28 to February 28, he will be displaying his art for the very first time for an art exhibition open to the public. The amusing and enchanting artworks by Bensley will be on display during…
Is LIVE music really back post pandemic? Or is the disease still lingering? Just 24…
The most recognisable music charts in the world – the Billboard Music Charts – launches…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam’s capital city and its nationwide population, saw its annual New Year’s…
Djooky, a music and fintech startup, has launched a new platform for fans to invest…
Music and poem expressing nature and our communication with them have always been a spiritual endeavor for many. And World Music has always been the genre that represents most holistically the people who write and perform their art. This year,…
Melodity is taking the music industry one huge step further towards the decentralized creator economy. In its grand attempt to support musicians, it is already gathered resources to begin building monetisation infrastructure in Web 3.0, in completely new ways. To…
NFT is a current hype in the music business scene. Music Press Asia interviews Scot McCracken to find out possibilities we can all think about and seriously consider: from branding of a musician’s product, selling tickets, creating value and more.…
John has produced over 50 records and has been involved in many more as a musician or engineer. He has gold records and numerous awards and nominations to his credit. Throughout the 1980s, John performed, toured, and produced with singer-songwriter…
With collectively over 1.3 million streams for all of his pre-released singles to date, Dom Guyot finally debuts his first album, “Unbeloved”, a collection of some of his most favorite…
In the hope to grasp how traditional musical instruments of Central and Eastern Asia are being expressed today, Music Press Asia speaks to the co-founders of MASTANEH, a music group formed using traditional Iranian and…
Independent musicians in Southeast Asia (SEA) have had to reimagine how they perform, distribute, and sell music in the wake of the pandemic, as we continue to see consumer behaviours…
Malaysia’s live entertainment scene, like everywhere else, shocked to its very core, is seeing gentle revivals as the commercial sector gradually opens up. As the reticent street in the capital…
Midem is a music event organised by RX France that is held annually for all music professionals around the globe. It gives everybody in the industry a chance to network with thousands of other professionals including artists, managers, agents, and more. The event is usually…
Over the last four days, Indie Week’s program is centered around areas of business development, education, health & wellness and…
For the first time, Music Press Asia is curating Friday evening listening lists for stay-at-homes as part of the November…
Starting tomorrow, Japan’s WiredX Music Festival returns to Aichi Sky Expo for two nights in a row (22-23 Jan 2022)…
Astro ushers in the Water Tiger with its #UHUU2022 Chinese New Year campaign and continues to reward customers with quality…
Tencent Music Entertainment Group, last month, has successfully closed its third annual Tencent Music Entertainment Awards (TMEA) ceremony. Leading online…
MusicDish LLC and Malaysia’s talent agency Keep It Local Entertainment has recently announced a collaboration to live broadcast five Malaysian…
A collaboration between music compositions by Erik Griswold and pianist Margaret Leng Tan. This year, Apra Amcos has awarded Work…
Djooky, a music and fintech startup, has launched a new platform for fans to invest in music rights. DjookyX is, at this very moment of reporting, is being built on the growing interest of asset class in music. Offering a means for music creators and rights-holders to finance their projects. And also allowing fans to purchase rights and benefit from…
Melodity is taking the music industry one huge step further towards the decentralized creator economy. In its grand attempt to…
Rolls-Royce has released a simple and effective new data bias tool to its pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and trustworthiness toolkit, The Aletheia Framework. We have also announced AI ethics collaborations with music cataloguing start-up, Musiio; and with international AI oncology experts. Bias in the…
Thailand’s largest media and entertainment conglomerate, GMM Grammy, has launched the first ever music streaming service – Plern – dedicated to Thai artists and consumers. The Plern app, aimed to meet Thailand’s growing market demand for music streaming, is powered by Tuned Global’s turnkey music…
Sound or audio is a vital criterion in the cognitive growth and development of the human brain. As important as music is to our everyday life, it is a sonic tool used to expose the child’s development in many areas. Doing this will not only…
While the expansion of the universe continues to be a ‘looming crisis in cosmology’[1] according to Michael Greshko’s article at National Geography. So is the state of the live music scene when we all went into some kind of lockdowns two years ago. But not everything is as it seems today post pandemic. Stories we’ve received here at the letters…
Environment Series: Professor Robert Powell and Lin Ho’s Terrace Transformations In The Tropics explores how the ubiquitous Malaysian terrace houses have embraced sustainability and climate change through the designs that work together with the tropical climate. Architecture in Southeast Asia has been given a renewed…
Anita, a biopic on illustrious Hong Kong Cantopop diva Anita Mui set to premiere all over Southeast Asia this month, has aroused a revival of Cantopop’s most spectacular songwriting of the gangtai style; a musical genre that carries a sweet, love-song melody distinct to C-pop…
Edmund Yeo isn’t a detached figure in the Japanese film world. But it is surprising that it has taken him this long to create a feature film entirely in the Japanese language. Yeo’s inventive approach to ‘Kingyo’ a Tokyo-set short film was released nationally in…
Over the last four days, Indie Week’s program is centered around areas of business development, education, health & wellness and community within the indie scene. But on its last day, in all seriousness, shifted its program focus towards more logical and practical approaches to being…
WOMEX – Worldwide Music Expo – is the most international music meeting in the world and the biggest conference of…
After launching the Music Ally China Digital Summit online event last month, Music Ally China is set to continue its…
When I was out and about scouting for recording studios in Thailand, some of the names kept coming up among…
While most of you may already be using a music platform somehow or rather (via an app on your smartphone…
Office Weekly Playlist can last you a year’s worth of listening, which consists of only 20 albums. It is a…
International Music Summit (IMS) comes together in a two-day conference discussing some of the most vital issues affecting the music…
2019 is just about to get more exciting for Indonesian artist Nicole Zefanya, more known as Niki. At just 20…
Bangkok-based Bill Bensley is an internationally acclaimed architect. From January 28 to February 28, he will be displaying his art…
This American experimental band, founded by member Ryan Lott, has recently released a music video of a single released with…
Astro ushers in the Water Tiger with its #UHUU2022 Chinese New Year campaign and continues to reward customers with quality…
While the expansion of the universe continues to be a ‘looming crisis in cosmology’[1] according to Michael Greshko’s article at…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam’s capital city and its nationwide population, saw its annual New Year’s Eve celebration in a virtual…
