The new album Trip sa Field will NOT be available on streaming platforms. I made this decision because, I wanted to make this all-Tagalog album a bit more special, so the only way to listen to the songs would be to support the limited vinyl edition with the CD and the music videos. Today, the…

I wrote the song “Bye Bye Na” in the early 2000s and entered it into a songwriting contest in 2003. It was chosen as one of the finalists, which meant the song would be part of the compilation album that the media network that held the contest –ABS-CBN–would launch after the grand finals. The album…

After a three-month tour that ended in October, I am finally back in the studio to work on new materials–and one of them–a song entitled “Confidential Funds” is now available to stream on all digital platforms from YouTube Music to Apple Music to Spotify. I wrote the song in an instant–fifteen minutes to be exact–after…

Everyone knows that Rickebackers are my favorite. Of course, you can say it’s because of the Beatles, but there’s more. I love Paul Weller and the Jam, REM, The Bangles, and The Smiths –bands known to have used the jangly sounds of the RIC. For the record, my first ever Rickenbacker was a 330 Fireglo…

So what’s next after Trip sa Field? That’s a good question but recently, I have been toying with the idea of writing and producing an album for Defmod Network, the electronic music outfit I founded with Gatchie Ignacio and Ronnie Lao back in New Jersey during the pandemic. We released a bunch of singles and…

Pressing vinyl independently is expensive–even for a short run. But there is something about having your songs on wax. So for me, having this solo project on vinyl is a bucket list thing that I just need to do. Will people buy it? I don’t know, and I am keeping my expectations modest. Trip sa…

In late September and early October, I was in Manila to do a couple shows with my band from New York, The Happy Analogues. And since we were already there, I contacted my former bandmates from my college band, The Freesouls, to play a few shows with me, which they all agreed to. What followed…