Starting of Taligsik Band (Finest Bands of Davao City)

They are not musicians, neither artists nor performers. Inday Tanini, Idol Dagol, Mario Penduko and Big Joe are nothing but ordinary DJs quintessentially equipped with outstanding knack in cracking fun out of anything at anytime, anywhere. Their jokes come out naturally and effortlessly that instantly sends many to outrageous laughters.

Gathering after board work has been a practice where jokes are favourite appetizer. In one of those times, while exchanging punch lines, their playful minds accidentally brought them to singing popular tunes while replacing them with their own hilarious lyrics. Unintentionally, Taligsik Band was formed, a phenomenon that hit Davao by storm.

Tanini Wonder products (a product of imagination that brings users great disaster) have become an inspiration of the group from where they derived their original composition, the Tanini Jingle. This was followed by Pamati, Iro kong Itom and their spoofs Pusoy si Lolo (Low), Gabriella (Umbrella) and Butikmol Girl (Beautiful Girl).

Right now, requests for Taligsik Band songs are causing traffic in the hot lines and floods in text line of MOR 101.1 Davao. Because of its huge impact to the masses, invitations for city and provincial shows as well as products endorsements are now also eventually coming.


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vocals + guitars: steve badiolabass: romeo ressurecciondrums: melvin macatiagfrom a song which came from a snapcase album where the band got their name from, TYPECAST is now one of the most much awaited new comers in a small-scaled music scene from a third world country called philippines. with overwhelming set of enormous performance every shows, the band is now creating a wide recognition among the crowd who comes to see and watch this trio on stage consuming all the heart-felt words of whispers and screams with wide arrays of contrast octave riffs that is totally melodic in a way that they have been labelled as an emo band from a certain underground scene in the province of laguna. in a masked type of fulfillment, almost for years of playing since they formed back in the latter weeks of december of 2000 the band plays with the urge of consistency of medium paced set of moods. influenced by such foreign bands like: armor for sleep further seems forever atreyu dashboard confessionals saosin appleseed cast shai hulud thrice copeland brandston the get up kids deftones slowride coheed and cambria alkaline trio etc., the band's sudden interest in perfoming live shows are one of the reason why they've been stable for quite sometime right now. in certain rental studios in laguna where they rehearse for new materials for a set, typecast's sound are been known by their honest lines of lyrics which are true experiences in their lives. steve, the band's main song writter triggers the most violent yet hurtful set of songs every shows with pounding beat of drummming came from melvin who hits the drums like it owes him money. and exact and precise low keys of the bass that came from the mild fingers of chi. the coalition of these guys are what makes the crowd stand up to their feets and just abosorbing the music wether outside or inside venues filled with eye-tearing smokes. singing along to every lines like their hearts are outside their shirts and shredding it to pieces with experinces of break-ups and disastrous relationships. the band originated from the streets of sta. rosa laguna where the underground music scene was concentrated on the new york hardcore style. that said place was the crib of bands like piledriver, 8oz, abberrant, ground zero, homicide and the likes. with the enormous number of hardcore enthusiast in the said place, TYPECAST was never intimidated by the fact that they play punk-rock music back then covering songs from some of their favorite bands like no use for a name, lagwagon & mxpx. later on, the band also reached out the provinces in the far most south like batangas, san pablo, sta. cruz, los baños, etc. where they played their most awesome shows ever. the main song that bloomed in the year 2002 was the first cut from their 1st release entitled "forget". this song was the main reason for TYPECAST getting a hold of the heart-broken kids not only in laguna but in manila as well. the song created a great impact that it came to the point that the crowd would stand up and sing along to the most honest lyrics ever wrote by the band. "break my heart"... that's the part where it all began for the said trio. the most requested song for each and every shows where they played at. second to that was a succesful follow-up song entitled "last time" which was also the cover title for the said 1st release. and even until now... those songs are still being wanted by people who wants to listen to it over and over again...making their way into the hearts of young people, TYPECAST released their 2nd independent record entitled "the infatuation is always there" with twelve cuts from their own shred of skins which triggered the emotions and the maturity of the band over the past few years. a contrast to their last release entitled "last time" which conjures a punkrock type of sound almost 2 years ago, TYPECAST's new album will tell you the story of how ones relationship fails one after the other, the guilt that consumes ones self and how to cope with failure and defeats. a follow up to their unforgotten first release, this new cd will definetly soothe your ears with power octave riffs and disastrous set of whispers of hope and desperations. typecast is now always playing along side with valley of chrome which is also under one same management...and this is the story so far...

History of Junior Kilat

Junior Kilat is a Filipino band, basing in Cebu, Philippines. The band is famous for its reggae sound, not just in Cebu-Dumaguete-Bohol area but also in Manila. Its name was taken from Leon Kilat, the 70’s Cebuano band.
Junior Kilat is currently composed of Errol “Budoy” Marabiles as the band’s vocalist, Tiano Evangelista on bass, Archie Ybañez on guitar, Bangin Atienza on turntable, Cleofas Quijano on trombone, Gina Pestaño as the keyboardist and the drummer Diana Freese. Jad Dapat was once a member of Junior Kilat who played the guitars.
Junior Kilat originated from Cebu, Philippines. Establishing a name as reggae band, Junior Kilat is popular in Davao-Dumaguete-Bohol regions. Their first exposure was on the album “Island Riddims” which was released on 2004 wherein two of their tracks: “K-Fyne” and “Original Sigbin” were featured. The band again appeared in another album entitled “Island Krismas” which their song, “Kling Klang”.
On 2005, Junior Kilat released its first full-length album entitled “Party Pipol Ur On Dub TV” under Galaxy Records. Containing twelve tracks, some of them were recorded at the studio while other were live at Idiot Bar in Cebu City.
Junior Kilat is also experiencing lineup changes as Jad Dapat left band and Archie Ybañez took over his left duties. Their sophomore album was released still under Galaxy Records on 2006 bearing the title “Buwad Suka Sili”. It contained 5 tracks, 2 music videos and the making of Ako Si M16 video.
Like any other bands, Junior Kilat wanted to explore the bigger world of music. Like Moslems who are making trip to Mecca, the band decided to venture and try their luck in the music capital of the country, Manila.
But prior to the exposures made in Manila, Junior Kilat already been featured in Ismol Tym, a Cebu-based channel RCTV show. Diana Freese, Tiano Evangelista and Gina Pestaño are staff members.
Junior Kilat was eventually introduced and be known nationwide when Budoy Marabiles joined Pinoy Big Brother Celebrity Edition of AS-CBN. Inside the house, he was able to write two songs: Maligo Na Jam and Budoy Ako, the Cebuano version of Pinoy Ako. Though he did not win, it is enough to give the band the amount of recognition.
After crossing the troubled waters, the brave captain, Budoy finally made it quite fine. With each one’s contributions, Junior Kilat finally arrived to the distinct reggae rhythm, free roaming dub, dancehall and a bit of folk tunes.
The name became popular in Manila considering that their song Ako Si M16 was awarded as the Song of the Year. The song was the first single from their Party Pipol Ur On Dub TV.
Currently, Junior Kilat is promoting its newest album, Enrique De Malacca under Galaxy Records, released on 2008. It is packed with 10 songs plus a bonus track. The carrier single of the said album was “1-2-3”.
Junior Kilat is still in the active circuit, promoting original and sometimes satirical songs for people to enjoy.

The Story Of The Band 1017

1017 is a quintet band from the Philippines. Culled from Davao City, the group was known for its single, “Charing” which flooded the airwaves of different radio stations. Among their trademarks in music industry are its original novelty songs and the style of providing comic relief to the listeners.
1017 is composed of 5 members. Jam-Jam Ruiz leads the vocals and deals with the guitars at the same time. Beam-Beam Longakit Jr. is the bass guitarist and with the vocals. Chokoi Pasagui operated the lead guitars and also with the vocal. Mckoy Al-ag is also a vocalist and played the rhythm guitars while on the drums, we have Janpoy Fortich.
This Davao-based rock band started on 1998. Formed by a group of Davao Central College students, Jam-Jam Ruiz and Mckoy Al-ag with their childhood friend, Janpoy Fortich started its operations. Few years later, Beam-beam Longakit Jr. and Chokoi Pasagui joined the band, solidifying its line-up.
They have several band names changing from Fatal Pandesal to Sonic Playground. As the band remained active and started writing songs, they decided to change it to Flight 1017 which was relevant to the “The Proclamation 1017”. Eventually, it was shortened into 1017 which was easier to remember.
To show more of their songwriting skills to fellow Davaoeños, they lured the audience to the brand of music they are making, what they referred as novelty rock. Being independent was their home ground.
Their entrance to mainstream commenced as the band’s vocalist, Jam-Jam Ruiz joined Colt 45’s Rockista where amateur vocalists were given the chance to be aired on MTV. He represents Davao at the national level in Metro Manila. Out of 11, he made it to top 5 Rockista Grand Finalists nationwide. This gave the whole band a name in music industry.
Jam-Jam’s stint in the contest prompted the band launched its independent debut album entitled ”Slot Machine”. The album spawned singles such as Textmate, Nobena and Seloso. Their outrageous performances and silly jokes, paved way to the journey they currently enjoy. They enjoyed provincial concert tours and school invasions, they appeared in TV and radio guestings and staged with some notable acts such as Sandwich, Bamboo, Shamrock, Parokya Ni Edgar and Up Dharma Down. They performed and made gigs in famous bars in Davao City.
On June 2007, EMI Philippines signed 1017 as their contract artist and released their self-titled album on July 2007. The album contained ”Charing”, the original and trademark song for 1017. Other tracks from the album includes ”Berting”, “2k2papa”, “Rotnibur”, “Nobena”, “Lbun”, “Sana”, “Atomic Bomb”, “Seloso”, “Txtmate” and “Amboy”. Charing was created on February 2007in Davao City and indeed easily captured the ears of the mainstream radio. The song topped the charts up to number 1 and lasted there for three weeks.
This recognition paved way to their major exposure in Metro Manila and appeared in ASAP, delivering their single as their first TV appearance. 1017 continued to shine as their songs shadowed from real-life stories in rock mixed with humor.

Biography of Spongcola.....

Among the dozens of new acts out there, Sponge Cola has risen above the college band cliché and proven to be a formidable part of today’s Philippine rock scene.

Sponge Cola is comprised of Yael Yuzon (lead vocals and guitar), Chris Cantada (vocals and drums), Armo (guitar) and Gosh (bass), all hailing from the Ateneo de Manila University. It was during high school (1998-2002) that Yael met Gosh through the school’s theater guild, Teatro Baguntao. Yael was already known then as a solo performer, but decided anyway to form a band with Gosh and two other co-actors. The group, then called Sponge after R.S. Surtee’s Mr. Sponge’s Sporting Tour, won in several high school competitions which began the buzz not just in their school but other campuses as well.

Through time, some of the members of the old lineup left and were replaced by Chris and Armo, the guitarist of Sponge’s brother band Rampqueen. Another batchmate, Raymond Fabul, began to manage both Sponge and Rampqueen. However, the boys were about to find out that a Detroit grunge band had already claimed the name Sponge. “But we wanted to keep the word Sponge in our band name because people have already associated us with that name,” Yael relays. “So we decided to add ‘Cola’, since it’s an easy enough word to remember.” Sponge Cola, as we know it, was therefore officially born in the summer of 2002.

They came up with the ubiquitous orange self-titled EP in the last quarter of 2003 containing five original songs: “Lunes,” “A Tear,” “Saturn,” “Cigarette” and “Jeepney.” The two songs penned in the vernacular were what made the band catch the public’s attention. “Lunes,” written by Gosh, begins with a catchy bossa nova-esque beat that suddenly shifts to a heavy rock riff, a nuance in arrangement which surprisingly served the song superbly. Second single “Jeepney” was written by a classmate for a school project back in 2001 and is a reminiscent piece on young love during simpler, happier times. The song showcases Yael’s vocal range; that is, his uncanny ability to shift from mellow to screamo.

Through this EP, Sponge Cola was able to get extensive airplay from several local pop and rock radio stations, which helped broaden their fan base across the nation. A bootlegged copy of their version of Madonna’s “Crazy For You” even ended up on the Internet and became so big an underground hit, some listeners believed it was a Sponge Cola original. Though this misconception has been instrumental in increasing Sponge Cola’s popularity, the band has since aimed to transcend the stigma of being a cover band. They pushed their original songs to the forefront, and public response to the band became better than ever; the magic had already begun.

Sony Music Philippines managed to sign the boys for record distribution and now release Sponge Cola’s full-length debut album, entitled Palabas, thus dubbed in allusion to the band members’ theater backgrounds. The album showcases a definitive voice in unadulterated rock, reminiscent of 90s Alternative but laced with enough sing-along pop sensibility-as evidenced by the band members’ individual influences. Gosh was weaned on classic OPM from the likes of Basil Valdes and Martin Nievera; Armo lends to the rock edge, citing bands like Tool, Deftones and A Perfect Circle as influences; Chris admits to being influenced by pop-rock bands like the Beatles and Athenaeum; and Yael trips on everything from novelty songs to bubblegum-pop, from 80s power ballads to The Smashing Pumpkins, all blending into a sound that the band coins as “sad-bastard-testosterone-based pop-rock.”

The first thing you hear when you listen to Palabas is Yael belting out, “Halika na, iyong lunurin ang problema’t kalimutan,” inviting the listener to take notice and drown in Sponge Cola’s unique sound. They are also one of the few local rock bands that boast of using three part harmonies in a lot of their songs, supplied by Yael, Chris and Gosh and as seen in tracks such as “KLSP” and “Una.” Sponge Cola also experiments with unconventional elements that are normally ignored in rock recording, like the samisen (”A Japanese guitar,” Gosh boasts), the striking of amplifiers, cellphone ring tones and actual rain. The final track “Closure” faintly features the sound of a door shutting, before transposing to a melancholic acoustic number. Throughout the whole album, one cannot help but admire the genius behind each member’s musicality. Yael’s melodic prowess is accompanied by Armo’s eccentric and pedal-happy guitar playing, Gosh’s hypnotized bass lines and Chris’ intense drum rhythms.

The group’s songwriters Gosh and Yael take their lyrics from personal experiences or their friends’. “To The Sly and Cunning” deals with the controversial issue of teenage date rape while “Gemini” is a masterpiece about sensuality. Tracks to watch out for are “Stone’s Throw,” written by rock veteran Ely Buendia, and “Jillian,” which is a heartfelt ballad written and earnestly rendered by drummer Chris about loving someone from afar.

The fourteen-track album is a masterful collection of songs that evoke the honesty and turmoil of growing up in today’s globalized, postmodern world. Independently produced, it is noteworthy that four college students were able to juggle academics with recording and mixing in their home studios and playing in several rock venues all at once.

Since their conception in 2002, Sponge Cola has played in numerous school fairs, proms, music festivals such as Alliance Francaise’s Fete de la Musique, concerts, on television, and even opening for this year’s MTV Pilipinas awards night, establishing them as one of the hottest bands of this generation. They have not only garnered the adulation of fans but also the respect and recognition of critics and contemporaries. Already hailed by the press as “The Next Big Thing”, Sponge Cola is something to keep an eye on-and an ear out for-in the years to come.

My Chemical Romance released their new album..... "Love Letter To Rock And Roll"

My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way

Forget all that talk about ditching the shtick and focusing on fast-and-furious punk. My Chemical Romance have one sentiment they'd like to get across on their new album, one that echoes what Grand Funk Railroad said decades ago: "We're an American band." "The punk element was something a lot of people talked about.

I think once I said we were pulling out the marching bands, they assumed it was going to be a punk record," Gerard Way told MTV News last month at San Diego Comic-Con, where he was promoting "Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion," the third series of his Eisner-winning comic. "I mean, it's definitely more aggressive, but to me it feels like a celebration of rock and roll. It feels like a true love letter to rock and roll. There's something about being an American rock-and-roll band that we've kind of grown into and we're very proud of. And I think that's what we're celebrating with this record. There's no agenda, there's no mission; it's just about rock and roll."

For proof, check out the fan footage of "Death Before Disco," one of three new tracks MCR unveiled last Friday, during a secret show at the Roxy in Los Angeles. It's a charging, fist-pumping number that recalls the Motor City pump of the MC5 and the L.A. strut of the Knack. And to help them hone in on that vibe even further, they've tapped producer Brendan O'Brien — who's done albums for Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam and Mastodon, to name just a few — to helm the sessions for the new album. "We're so happy working with Brendan O'Brien," Way said. "We love him, we're having the best time of our lives. It's a total blast. I feel like it's getting close to being finished. We're doing tracking now. There's no title yet. It's crazy — this is the first time we're waiting to get really far into the project before [choosing a title]. I'm actually kind of excited about that. It's kind of 'anything goes' at this point, but I'm so happy with the songs." Way said there's still no release date for the new album, though he added, "It's safe to say it'll come out next year."


This is all keeping with the band's open-ended, fast-and-loose approach to recording and writing, a first for MCR, who — up to this point — have made their living on expansive conceptual fare. "It's actually kind of liberating," Way said. "I'm writing lyrics simply about what the song's telling me, instead of trying to shoehorn something into a story line. I'd say they all have their own little stories. Some of them are direct, real life things that happened to us or me. Some of them are fiction, [because] I didn't want to lose that side.


One of the things I really liked about Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is that we took people on a journey with each video and each single, even though it was a concept record. The Black Parade didn't do that. It stuck all the way through to this rigid vision up until the end, but this time I'm really excited about giving someone something new every time."