The Wknd Sessions’ boys and girls list down some of our favourite regional releases from 2016, including albums and EPs from Lust, Forests, Ali Aiman and Pitahati.
Yuen offers up his two cents about punk, authenticity, and the twin controversies of Homophobic Malaya and The Rejection.
Our editor Azzief Khaliq sat down with Sublime Frequencies’ Mark Gergis to talk about the label, ethics, notions of otherness and psychedelia and much more besides. Part one of four.
ZH Liew reflects on the shidaiqu, the “songs of the era” that originated in 1920s Shanghai, and on memory, history and transmission.
Ahead of the launch of The Wknd Store later this month, editor Azzief Khaliq rambles about collecting and why people (including himself) still buy music on physical formats.
Our new editor weighs in on the age-old issue of gig attendances in the Klang Valley.
We managed to catch Herri Hamid, lead songwriter and guitarist of premiere Malaysian Brit rock outfit, Bittersweet, on the making…