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Naim Daniel has much to give. With a new nomination by MTV’s EMAs 2021, his songs are up against other prominent contenders in the region. Undefined in a new generation of artists, Naim Daniel is set to become one of Malaysia’s most prominent artists of the decade. Naim Daniel isn’t your normal 24-year-old actor and singer-songwriter with a degree and…
My obsession for music as much as for bird-watching has always been an ever-increasing interest. Here’s three species spotted over the weekend. With roots in Perak, I head over the hills to some of the…
China Orders Tencent To End Exclusive Music Licensing Deals When China regulator ordered Tencent Music Entertainment Group to give up its exclusive rights to music labels in July this year, we sense a shift of…
Environment highlight: Ocean Continuing our efforts to highlight the awareness of the ocean on the Environment theme. We’ve selected the film Blood of the Blue / 東經北緯, a Taiwanese production for our October film selection.…
Tea is where we’d like to begin. If tea isn’t a reason to bring people together, then what does? While our editorial editors may like a gau (thick) cup of tea just to start agreeing…
Monica Tong, editor-in-chief at Music Press Asia shares her Tuesday listening rituals starting from an hour before dawn to midday and why Bossa Nova, and ultimately, birdsongs are her life-saving Tuesday must-haves. FOR THOSE OF…
To celebrate International Day of the Girl, Women of the World (WOW) Foundation’s second edition of the Young Leaders Directory has been published. Featuring nearly forty incredible girl and non-binary young leaders, WOW’s Young Leaders…
In a collaboration with HKU MUSE, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra is showcasing a twist to what the Bassoon, a classical woodwind instrument, can do to impress. The concert, happening this Sunday afternoon [3:00 on, 24 October], will be showcasing the bassoonists of the HK…
If you’ve been bottled up by the Covid-19 lockdowns and restriction in movement since March…
The Dunhuang murals is one of China’s greatest discovery of the present era. A new…
Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you…
The staff at Music Press Asia has eyes on Taiwan this quarter. This list isn’t…
The future of handwoven textiles and its tradition is in your hands. In a bid to preserve Southeast Asia’s technical prowess of handweaves, TENUN presents its very first Fashion Week set to take place from 15-17 October 2021. Exquisite fabrics…
After launching the Music Ally China Digital Summit online event last month, Music Ally China is set to continue its second edition of the International Music Expo (IMX). One of China’s large-scale music conference, showcase and expo event that attracted…
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 shift, as the digital and virtual space take prominence over…
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 awaits for the rumpus of the weekend traffic to mount,…
Patagonia Films has recently released its latest short film ‘Lessons from Jeju’. The film centred around a group of freediving and fishing women called the haenyeo. And sees host and…
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 tracks written during what he…
The pandemic has reached the state of Assam, and more specifically, Sidd’s city of Guwahati, the largest city in Assam in northeastern India. With more rainfalls than other areas in…
Q1. Tell us about what got you excited or impacted you the most to start such a group such as Joy Collective? How did it all began? And how has…
Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you have a whole week’s worth of work waiting, who wouldn’t want to be in a good mood on Monday? But that is the challenge we’re addressing today, a Monday. You…
The staff at Music Press Asia has eyes on Taiwan this quarter. This list isn’t an exhaustive list to know-…
After launching the Music Ally China Digital Summit online event last month, Music Ally China is set to continue its…
Making plans for a new lifestyle staying at home and restricting outdoor movement? If that is a yes, join Revive…
The three-day festival before a live broadcast award show is taking place this week. With nominations already announced months before,…
Maki Mae sure has her favourite things lined up this year. The GRAMMY Award has recently announced considering the latest…
What challenges and opportunities lie ahead as we push through the economic shock created by the pandemic? With the participation…
The organiser of the Rainforest World Music Festival isn’t letting the pandemic stop them from sharing the tropical goodness of…
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739, in a recent release, announced the Nobel Prize 2021 winners in Physics. A registered trademark of the Nobel Foundation, Nobel Prize® recognises three Laureates, whose efforts in creating new methods for describing and predicting complex systems that are characterised by randomness and disorder and are difficult to understand. Syukuro Manabe is…
How do you get compensated if you have already been uploading music on Apple Music? In a recent announcement, Apple…
Glozal, creator of the first NFT Music Player™ and NFT Music Marketplace, has recently announced the joining of music industry veterans to its Board of Advisors. Founded in 2021, Glozal Inc. is a music technology company developing an “artist focused, and fan driven” NFT Music…
With conference dates for its physical conference rescheduled, Computex, an important exhibition for the global telecommunications industry will now happen virtually for one month: from 31 May to 30 June, 2021. What used to be an annual event, the exhibition in Taipei now faces…
Music research and analytics platform Viberate will be the first to test the concept of a live performance NFT, in partnership with digital asset marketplace Blockparty. Happening right now, the “NFT drop” (the release and subsequent auction of non-fungible tokens) started yesterday (April 29) and will…
The Chinese traditional instrument – Guzheng – is one fascinating piece of art. In another word, it is the Chinese’s most elegant creation ever existed. Over centuries, guzheng remains the symbol of great beauty mainly because of the prominent role it plays in the royal courts. Its rich tapestry of art inspired by the zheng continues to be documented even…
Released in 2018, the journey of Joanna Lumley as she embarks on a spectacular exploration into the heart of the Silk Road in this four-part series. The Silk Road was one of the most transformative super-highways in human history. In Joanna Lumley’s grandest and most…
Perhaps the most striking feature of all is its overarching methodised principle. With musical instruments arranged along a timeline, the book provides from beginning to finish, from earliest to most recent; a perspective on the evolution of musical instruments that would otherwise not be noticeable.…
Nobel prize winner and one of the most celebrated Japanese writers of our time, Kazuo Ishiguro gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly depicted, interconnected dramas in which music is a vivid character that drives the essential expressions via the first person.…
The American Film Market® (AFM®) will move its 2021 edition entirely online, the Independent Film & Television Alliance® (IFTA®) in a recent announcement. An equivalent event to the Asia TV Forum & Market here in Asia, the film industry in the U.S is a global…
Tokyo International Music Market (TIMM) is back this November (2021) with its very first online version. Albeit being their 18th…
Here are the group nominees for Golden Melody Awards’ 32nd award show taking place on 21 August, 2021. 《 年度歌曲獎…
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…
Environment highlight: Ocean Continuing our efforts to highlight the awareness of the ocean on the Environment theme. We’ve selected the…
The Dunhuang murals is one of China’s greatest discovery of the present era. A new musical Flying Apsaras has recently…
Let’s cut to the chase. Monday is all about being direct and multi-tasking. If you have a whole week’s worth…
The staff at Music Press Asia has eyes on Taiwan this quarter. This list isn’t an exhaustive list to know-…
The Chinese traditional instrument – Guzheng – is one fascinating piece of art. In another word, it is the Chinese’s…
