Music

“Hip hop is often about struggle and the streets and southeast Asia has some challenging components. You have poverty in places ... some difficult living situations, and where you see hip hop really resonate is when it can be as authentic as possible.” … [Read more...] about Hip hope: Universal Music opens Southeast Asia HQ betting on rap

Warzone will be released on October 19. The album revisits timely songs from throughout Ono's career, including "Woman Power" (from 1973's feminist-themed Feeling the Space) and "Imagine," from Lennon's 1970 album of the same name. (Ono received a belated co-writing credit for "Imagine" last year.) The recordings are stripped bare to emphasize Ono's messages, which seem newly charged today. … [Read more...] about Yoko Ono’s New Music Video for ‘Warzone’ Is a Chilling Warning: Exclusive Premiere

Directed by Rakesh Bedi and starring Shweta Tiwari, the play explores the structure of a nuclear family, commenting upon the independence that comes with financial security and no family pressure. The couple is not answerable to anyone except themselves. … [Read more...] about Pune spotlight: Art, music, humour and heritage… What’s happening where

The show is a viral hit with musical theatre’s young fanbase – it’s the second-most streamed cast album in the world – and in Sydney, at the Opera House no less, that bright musical theatre-pop still manages to sound cool. We can thank the band for that – led by musical director Claire Healy on keys, with Ali Foster on drums, Debbie Yap on guitar, and Jessica Dunn on bass – who find the dirty, hot fun in the score and elevate it. Tim Deiling’s lighting is explosively colourful, and Gabriella Slade’s costumes, which remix Tudor finery into sequinned performance gear, are a delight. … [Read more...] about Six review – Hamilton-style hit musical turns Henry VIII’s wives into pop group for the ages

All three were both born in the temple town of Tiruvarur, not far from Thiruvaiyaru where Tyagaraja lived, and sang of his ishta devata, Rama, while pioneering the development of a sophisticated art form that has come to be known as classical Carnatic music. … [Read more...] about Tyagaraja Aradhana: Pilgrimage for Carnatic music lovers