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Grand Prix Season Singapore: more than just fast cars!

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Singapore is ready to go with their 2010 Grand Prix Singapore Season! From 17 to 26 September, the Lion City will be roaring with excitement in the form of the race, fashion, music, entertainment and much more.  MORE

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TypeWriter wants to give you an Indian Head Massage

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Singapore's TypeWriter has been around for a good decade. In those years, the indie pop/rock quartet has seen its fair share of ups and downs - line-up changes being one of them. But today, TypeWriter consists of Yee Chang Kang, Patrick Chng, Desmond God and Redzuan Hussin; and this seems to be the way it will stay for a while. MORE

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Strut your stuff at SG Stomping 2010

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A fringe event to Singapore's Mettle Games - described as the most spectacular action sports extravaganza in Singapore - SG Stomping 2010 is a rock fest that aims to showcase some of the region's finest acts to an expected crowd of 50,000 over three days.  MORE

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Flaunt your creativity and win RM10,000!

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Swiss watchmakers Rado launched their Rado Young Design Prize Malaysia 2010 yesterday to all creatives and the first prize is a sweet RM10,000 in cash and a watch! MORE

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Aiqa Halim steps up to the mic

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First a composer, now the performer – Aiqa Halim is slowly and surely paving her own route to success. MORE

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The Contenders: Mercury Prize 2010

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The Barclaycard Mercury Prize 2010 is a prestigious annual award given out to the best album from a music act from United Kingdom and Ireland. Culturally regarded as an award that favours more alternative artistes, the nominees for this year's prize was announced recently, with the winner announcement on 7 September. Who's your fave to win? MORE

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Inch Chua takes one step closer to her dreams

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Singapore's singing, songwriting darling Inch Chua has been the talk of the nation after securing prestigious slots at South by Southwest Festival in Texas and at MIDI Festival in Beijing earlier this year. To make an already remarkable year more memorable, Inch recently released her debut full-length Wallflower. MORE

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Fin: why Junk is no longer a monthly mag

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By now,  most of you would've heard that as of the August 2010 issue, Junk will no longer be published as monthly magazine.  MORE

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Lady Gaga's Heartbeats earphones now selling in Malaysia

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Let's talk about celeb endorsements for a bit. Did you notice Lady Gaga's cool earphones in her 'Bad Romance' video? Well those babies are from the Monster "Heartbeats by Lady Gaga" earphones, and they're the latest addition to the hugely popular Beats™ by Dr. Dre™ headphone family from Monster®. MORE

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Uniqlo confirms first Malaysian store!

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While we can't speak for everyone, many of us at the Junk HQ are huge fans of Japan's Uniqlo. What's not to like about its high quality casual wear that can be mixed and matched to suit the individual? And at pretty affordable prices too. We've always had to get our Uniqlo fix in Singapore or Hong Kong ... now, no longer!  MORE

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UPDATE: Who wants to open for Coheed & Cambria at BY DEMAND?!

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So you should know by now that the third By Demand will be headlined by Coheed & Cambria (details here - tickets available on sale on 14 JULY!). But we're still on the look out for a super opening act and we're opening up nominations for who we should bill TO YOU.  MORE

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Barefoot travels to Singapore

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Barefoot, the global music movement fronted by Stereotyp and Cee, has spread its wings to Malaysia, Turkey, France and now, it's heading to Singapore! MORE

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Astro MyStory: What's Your Story?

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In conjunction with Merdeka Day, Astro has come up with a channel designed to air your unique 1Malaysia stories!

 

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It Hurts so good

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We got our eyes on one of the UK's fastest rising bands, Hurts. Here's a little background on the duo of Theo Hutchcraft and Adam Anderson. MORE

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RedAMP 2010 - The Top 10 Finalists!

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The top 10 finalists for RedAMP 2010 have emerged. MORE

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Jurugambar Malaysia Haluan Kiri: Kukubesi & Chot Touch

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A book, filled with timeless moments immortalised on pages and pages of paper. The photography book that has been waiting to be unleashed onto thousands is finally being launched! A mini concert, will be held in conjunction to the launching of Jurugambar Malaysia Haluan Kiri!

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The Stoned Revivals say goodbye

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With local bands and musicians popping up like mushroom in the industry, we have to bid a bittersweet farewell to one that has been performing for the past two decades.

 

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Wanna be the next MTV Asia VJ?

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Remember the glory days of MTV Asia VJs like Jamie Aditya, Sonia Couling, Sarah Sechan, Mike Kasem and Nadya Hutagalung? If you think you've got what it takes to be just as awesome, the MTV VJ Asia Hunt is for you! MORE

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Radio Gaga: 33RPM on BFM 89.9 wins our love

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We've been tuning into radio more often these days thanks to 33RPM, the alternative music show hosted by Zack Yusof on BFM 89.9! Since we love it so much, we thought we had to have Zack tell us more about the show that many have been describing as the only saving grace in Malaysian radio.  MORE

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Mohd Jayzuan is now an author!

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Singer-songwriter and Malaysian indie scene mainstay Mohd Jayzuan marks a milestone on 12 June with the release of his book, 28 Hari: Jurnal Rock N Roll. MORE

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