Eklektro Review

10/09/2024

Rest in peace, James Earl Jones. Darth Vader has lost his (original) voice

The Hollywood actor died on Monday morning surrounded by his family.

28/08/2024

Opposition Party plays with friends. Don’t miss it!

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A chance to see you all this Saturday. Coming?

20/08/2024

Noise of Human Art (NOHA). Drum n Bass before there was Drum n Bass

13/07/2024

RIP, Michael Cheah. If you hadn’t started BigO magazine with Philip and Stephen Tan and put the spotlight on up-and-coming Singapore bands in the late 80s - early 90s, and helped to organise gigs for them, I wonder if we would ever have the explosion of indie bands that we had back then. I probably also would not have met and made friends with people like Patrick Chng of The Oddfellows, Joe Ng of Corporate Toil and The Padres, Kevin Mathews of The Watchmen, Ben Harrison of The Deadbeats and Electric Penguin, Yee Chang Kang of The Ordinary People, Leslie Low of Twang Bar Kings, Humpback Oak and The Observatory, and several BigO writers and photographers who I consider my friends like Nazir Husain, Gerrie Lim, Martyn See, Gary See, Ct Lim, Sudhir Menon, Cyril Ng and Alex Ortega, amongst others. BigO was a very important and big part of my formative years as a young adult and fledgling professional writer. Michael and his brother Philip impressed upon me the journalistic values of integrity and honesty in writing, and always taking every writing assignment seriously and to seize every good opportunity and to not let it pass. Values that I still carry with me and practise till today. Goodbye and thank you, Michael. May you rest in peace.

12/06/2024

Goodbye, Arthur “Gaps” Hendrickson of The Selecter! You will be sorely missed by 2-Tone fans everywhere!

Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson dies after a short illness, a spokesperson for The Selecter says.

03/06/2024

Heads up, Radiohead and Thom Yorke fans!

As part of his Everything tour, he will be playing songs from across his career.

14/05/2024

RIP, David Sanborn! His work on Springsteen’s Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out along with that of Clarence Clemons and the Brecker Bros., as well as on Bowie’s Young Americans is immortally assured.

“I’m not so interested in what is or isn't jazz,” Sanborn told Downbeat in 2017. "The guardians of the gate can be quite combative, but what are they protecting? Jazz has always absorbed and transformed what's around it. … *Real musicians don't have any time to spend thinking about limited categories."*

Read More: David Sanborn Dies at 78 After Cancer Battle |

Famed saxophonist David Sanborn died on May, 12, 2024, after a battle with cancer. He was 78.

10/05/2024

On May 2, 1980 Joy Division played its last concert. In front of about 300 fans at High Hall, a dining commons at a residence hall of Birmingham University in England, singer Ian Curtis and his band performed 11 songs.

Joy Division would perform its final show to 300 fans at a university in England and live debut a tune that New Order would play hundreds of times.

08/05/2024

Oh, man! Such sh*tty news to wake up to in the morning. RIP, Steve Albini

The musician and producer was known for his work with acts like Nirvana, The Pixies and PJ Harvey.

28/04/2024

I feel the same way about Taylor Swift. Yes, granted, she may be important to a whole lot of people now, but in the grand scheme of things, she is not.

15/04/2024

My god, other countries’ PMs or presidents may be ineffectual but at least they’re not fu***ng boring! What do we get? A PM with all the charisma of bland tofu!

12/04/2024

Echo & The Bunnymen announce their Songs to Learn & Sing 2024 Tour!

Echo & The Bunnymen announce Songs To Learn & Sing Tour 2024 Echo & The Bunnymen have today announced the dates of their Songs To Learn & Echo & The Bunnymen announce Songs To Learn & Sing Tour 2024 Trust us, this tour promises to be nothing short of pure magic.