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When Urbandub played Lucena City last May 11, 2012 for the Tanduay First Five Tour, many people wondered why Lalay wasn’t onstage with them.  Instead, Rico Blanco’s bassist Dave Delfin and John Dinopol played bass. 

After the concert, a message was placed on the Facebook Fan Page of Urbandub, asking fans to pray for Lalay’s quick recovery. 

I’ve been in touch with MCA Music now for a couple of years and they never fail to invite me to numerous events.  Many of these events are concert related, or press conferences.  However, once in awhile, they invite me to contract signings with some of the talents they sign. 

Today MCA Music signed Pupil.  I was instantly pleased and was happy to hear, that though Sony had closed down, MCA would continue the support of a major label, for a band like Pupil. 

Mr. Bones and the Boneyard Circus have been in my sights since they first came out of the dark and into the spotlight a couple of years ago.  I was given a copy of their EP and loved it.  It was dark, it was theatrical, they spoke of zombies, and their music video of Haunted Wonderland had a coffin in it.  This stuff was right up my alley and I could completely relate to the visuals they were putting on to match the music. 

They then released Horror Scene in 2009 and went on to releasing another music video as well as winning the Favorite New Indie Artist at the 2011 Myx Music Awards. 

In 2011, they became part of the Jack Daniels JD Set Philippines where they are now part of the final 7 competing to represent the country in the coming JD Set Asia Pacific International event this 2012/2013.

PEDICAB RETURNS WITH “KAYA MO MAG-SANDO?”

After making their major label debut album “Shinji Ilabas Mo Na Ang Helicopter” which produced the hit singles “Ang Pusa Mo”, “FX” and “Simulan Mo Na”, alternative band Pedicab returns with a new EP entitled “Kaya Mo Mag-Sando?”

The EP, which is currently the #1 most downloaded album at MyMusicStore.com.ph (the Philippines’ version of iTunes), features 6 brand new tracks including the carrier single “Otomatik”. Other tracks in the EP are: “Kaya Mo Mag-Sando?”, “Ang Apoy”, “La Liga Filipina”, “Insekto” and “The Shot”.

Sucks!  I’m missing the Lucena leg of the Tanduay First Five Rock Royalty tour tonight.  But I don’t feel entire awful because I’m missing it for a very good reason.  However, nevertheless, I do feel like I’m going to be missing out on something very special, for the Tanduay Rock Royalty First Five tour is definitely something to behold. 

Anyway, because I’m missing it, I decided to somehow try to make myself feel like a part of me will still be there, and with that I decided to share a video with all of you. 

This is a video that is shown at each of the concerts of the tour.  The way it works, is that before each of the First Five bands, there is a video presentation that is basically an interview with each of the 5 bands, each of them talking about being on tour with Tanduay.

The highly anticipated and much awaited return of Lady Gaga is finally coming to a head! 

Lady Gaga will be performing 2 nights at the Mall of Asia Arena on May 21 and 22, 2012!

Atthewomb.com will be giving away a couple of tickets in an online ticket contest which will begin this coming Monday, May 14, 2012.

Urbandub for Vans.

In November of 2004, I was invited by MCA Music to come and witness one of the final stages of the recording of Urbandub’s The Apparition.  It was their 5th album and my first time to enter the studio to experience the magic that Urbandub creates while within those walls. 

It is now May of 2012 and I’ve learned that I will once again be a fly on the wall while watching and listening to Urbandub record their next album. 

Photo taken from here.

The Eraserheads are undoubtedly one of the most influential Filipino bands in the local music scene. 

They are covered by countless bands, have numerous t-shirt designs paying tribute to the legacy they left behind, and continue to be named the artist with the best local music video of all time, the band continues to make their presence felt, even though they disbanded many years ago. 

Not to mention, their reunion concert, both of them, probably had the most attendees of any single Filipino bands concert.

The noise they are making now is in the tribute album being recorded by some of the top artists of Star Records and Star Cinema. 

UPDATE: Tots Tolentino has already deleted his status update.

There’s another war on Facebook happening, as acclaimed jazz musician Tots Tolentino posted a status last April 29, 2012 regarding his thoughts on rap music. “Rap is not music. Ewan ko kung ano ang musical diyan,” is what he said that made the Filipino hiphop community enraged.

Hit the jump to read some of our thoughts.

April 20, 2012, World Pot Smoking Day.  The Tanduay First Five Rock Royalty bands had all gathered into the terminal 2 Philippine Airlines Airport as we were on our way to beautiful Dumaguete City. 

Now on our 4th leg of the tour, and with having had a week of rest from last weeks Myx Summer Fest in Boracay, we were all ready and excited to leave town for another rocking concert. 

Enjoy some highlights from our trip to Dumaguete, along with some fun facts about Urbandub and the rest of the T5 bands!