Mark Dela Cruz It’s been more than a year since the whole country was locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Everyone was and continues to be affected, including musicians. While some were forced into indefinite hiatus, others used the downtime to create new material like San Pablo City, Laguna-based indie singer/songwriter Mark Dela Cruz.…
Photo courtesy of Skygrid. A metalcore fan would appreciate SkyGrid's Faultless Vision, the Los Baños-based band's debut EP. The five-track EP brings together material from 2014 to 2019, mainly influenced by August Burns Red, Killswitch Engage, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Valley of Chrome, and the nu metal sound. Anyone listening to the EP wouldn’t…
Text by: Sheenah Tan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan Surely, funk is yet another common genre in the country’s indie music, but to fuse it with rock n’ roll? Now we’re talking. Enter Lovecore’s Funk n’ Roll, a 13-track album that was released just last month. The band further strengthened funk and rock…
Text by: Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by: Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan “Life happened,” says Lovecore vocalist Cy Sorongon when asked what took the band so long to release their first full-length album Funk n' Roll. Other bands would have stopped and quit, but for Lovecore, life goes on. Cy, guitarist Reg Gutierrez, bassist Frame Ong,…