I live in Manila and there's basically two seasons: hella rain vs no rain. We're in the hella rain period. This is when all the typhoons, monsoons, storms, floods, etc. happen and it goes on from June to November.

So to commemorate the middle of the rainy season, here's a live performance by Lola Amour performing "Raining in Manila". I'm not familiar with them but the song is a little jazzy and all the dudes crammed in that bus are totally all in sync.

Youtube: Lola Amour performs "Raining in Manila"

Genius: English translation

Needles In The Camel's Eye by Brian Eno

Elements of this sounds extremely early 90s alternative to me. He was so ahead of his time.

Nothing wrong with liking pop but she has vastly more money than I will ever earn. I rather support indie or up and coming performers that won't take my financial support for granted.

Also helps to enjoy a wide variety of music so if one scene is getting overpriced or doesn't tour your area, you can still enjoy and support other acts.

Loved Garbage when I was a 90s kid and I still love Garbage now. No Gods No Masters is an album that goes pretty hard and it's a whole double album.

Totally discovered Garbage from playing Gran Turismo 2 😂

I saw G-Idle in Manila. It was such a blast. Everyone has mad high energy and Shuhua shines like moonlight irl. She has some crazy glow and charm that translates better on stage.

My fav still has to be Mamamoo tho. Great sound, great energy, and watching the girls perform each other's solo songs melts my heart. Wheein performing Solar's Honey is everything.

I had no idea this collab existed. Thank you Aussies for educating the rest of us 🙏

I feel like a moving target whenever I say I greatly prefer Echo & the Bunnymen over The Cure BUT I can't help it, their kind of 80s post-punk neopsychedelia is so good. Love all their albums from Crocodiles to self-titled, although I need to check out their later stuff.

I saw G-Idle in Manila. It was such a blast. Everyone has mad high energy and Shuhua shines like moonlight irl. She has some crazy glow and charm that translates better on stage.

My fav still has to be Mamamoo tho. Great sound, great energy, and watching the girls perform each other's solo songs melts my heart. Wheein performing Solar's Honey is everything.

Yessss link it to us!

I found Lemmy because I learned I could crosspost my relevant Mastodon posts to a Lemmy community. That's an easier way to get more posts, because I can get engagement from either Mastodon or Lemmy and it doesn't feel like I'm posting on a dead forum just to be forgotten about. Also I find myself checking up on that Lemmy community directly to see what other people are posting, because viewing the content from Mastodon is too messy.

The Arcade Fire's Haiti

https://youtu.be/tGvpUgo7ayY Controversies with members of the band aside, this song makes me cry every time. I have no connection to Haiti but the poignant vocals really pulls at your heart strings and makes you mourn for a lost homeland. The French lines really help too.

Different song on the same album but Ghost has such a banger cover of Nocturnal Me

https://youtu.be/mTdaLHyXIAk

Yup I'm from Manila. There is a dreampop/shoegaze scene here but unfortunately I'm out of the loop so I'm the wrong person to ask. If you're curious, Furiosa organizes a lot of Filipino shoegaze shows. They're furiosasound on both IG and FB. In one show I remember watching Sleepwalk Circus. https://youtu.be/FTCQbYRuRnc

Ben & Ben is a more mainstream folk rock band but I like some of their songs, especially their collaborations. https://youtu.be/lajkFB4Zeug Lunod is about drowning (whether it be debt, depression, etc) while being invalidated by the people around you.

https://youtu.be/yaGmwtpOyV0 Kapangyarihan (power) was an anti-Marcos song. There's a lyric video with English translations. But yeah the M/V links the deaths during the martial law era to Duterte's drug war and Marcos carries on that unfortunate torch. When Marcos won, I was furious and I played this song on loop.

Locally Ben & Ben is more known for their unrequited love songs, which locals eat up. They've done a few international tours and I think they're deffo a group to keep an eye out on.

I'm a massive sucker for dark post-punk and anything goth-adjacent, so I like The Late Isabel, but they haven't been active for a while. https://youtu.be/l0wpvbO26Go

Yeah The Soft Moon is very unique, I think his sound is getting more industrial and experimental with each release. I prefer post-punk so some tracks are challenging for my ears but I'm glad he's pushing the boundaries and doing his thing!

She went all Morrissey😞

It's only been a billion years 😭

Not sure if Antic Clay's Hilarious Death Blues is a concept album but man it's the darkest double album I've ever listened to, to the point that I would not recommend listening to it while depressed or going through some serious shit. It's a journey through an apocalyptic Americana and its very convincing in its beautiful hopelessness. It's Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian made into sonic flesh.

Bandcamp: https://stickfigurerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hilarious-death-blues-double-album

I'm so glad dynamic pricing does not exist in my part of the world. I'm still paying the price though because I watch a lot of kpop and boy is there a kpop tax 💀 💀 💀

Nope it's English, it's an Irish-Filipino production. Most of it is filmed in Ireland and there are some flashback scenes in the Philippines but they're subtitled.

I like the movie, it goes in really surprising places. I haven't seen another English-language horror movie covering global south labour exploitation so it deffo gets bonus points for that one.