One Click Straight pulls off impromptu toned-down set

Text by Kimmy Baraoidan Photos by Chris Quintana and Kimmy Baraoidan At some point in a band’s life, you will get to experience gigs that will test your patience and flexibility. For Manila-based pop-rock band One Click Straight, such a gig showed just how talented and adaptable the band is. Last January 25, One Click…

Bimby in Wonderland: One Click Straight x The Adamant

Gold Steps Productions is back with its second round of gigs in LB. Bimby in Wonderland will feature Manila-based indie bands One Click Straight and The Adamant. Los Baños-based bands Cold Summer, Lidjah, Red Light, and ALS will also be performing. The show will be held on January 25, 2018, Thursday, 7:00 p.m. at 77 Events…

One Click Straight releases single “She”

The guys of pop-rock band One Click Straight—vocalist and bassist Toffer Marquez, guitarists Sam Marquez and Joel Cartera, and drummer Tim Marquez—are back again with another single. She is inspired by the tragic emotional disarray that people go through when faced with unrequited feelings, according to Sam. Tim initially started the whole concept and structure of…

One Click Straight releases single “Small Talk”

Manila-based pop-rock band Once Click Straight recently released a new single called Small Talk. According to guitarist Sam Marquez, the song is about a common situation most people find themselves in when talking to a person they want to get to know. “It depicts the desperation a person is willing to go through for a…

Lovecore launches first full-length album after a decade

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,…