Michael Bugeja
TUNED IN TO TURNING 20
"20 years ago, Nirvana and I joked about how old we would be during Teatru Unplugged 20". So reads the introduction in this year's...
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Michael Bugeja
- Nov 30, 2016
- 1 min
ROCKNA INTERVIEW: THE BUSKER
Ahead of the launch gig of their debut album Telegram, Michael Bugeja interviewed The Busker during the November 18, 2016 edition of...
Michael Bugeja
- Nov 22, 2016
- 2 min
THE BUSKER TO LAUNCH DEBUT ALBUM
Telegram is the title of the debut album from The Busker. Scheduled for release on Friday, December 2, 2016, the 15-track album features...
Michael Bugeja
- Oct 20, 2016
- 1 min
ETNIKA BACK WITH NEW SINGLE
It had been a while since Etnika's last release - about eight years or so, in fact - but, further to a string of local and foreign gigs...
Michael Bugeja
- May 29, 2016
- 5 min
CUSHION: THE COMFORT OF INDIAN FUSION
To anyone who remembers the local music scene in the 1980s, Toni Curmi will forever be the long-haired lad who delivered the heavy...
Michael Bugeja
- May 8, 2016
- 1 min
L-GĦANJA TAL-POPLU 2016 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The finalists of this year's L-Għanja tal-Poplu – Festival tal-Kanzunetta Maltija have been announced. The judging panel this year was...
Michael Bugeja
- Apr 13, 2016
- 2 min
THE NEW VICTORIANS: BRIDGING THE GREAT DIVIDE
With core members Bettina and Philippa now living thousands of miles apart, it was perhaps to be expected that The New Victorians would...
Michael Bugeja
- Apr 3, 2016
- 1 min
ROCKNA INTERVIEW: STALKO
Four years on (give or take a month or three) from the release of their much-lauded debut album Grandiloquence, Stalko are back with...
Michael Bugeja
- Apr 2, 2016
- 3 min
STALKO'S NEW ALBUM: IN THEIR OWN WORDS
Ten new tracks, intimate, minimal to quite some extent and openly reflecting quite a different approach to that which fuelled...
Michael Bugeja
- Jan 17, 2016
- 4 min
HEARTFELT FOLK FROM DOWN UNDER
Old Soul’s Eyes is the name of an album released digitally towards the end of 2014 by Walrus & The Carpenter, the Australian band formed...
Michael Bugeja
- Jan 1, 2016
- 5 min
MIKE BUGEJA'S 2015 END-OF-YEAR ROUND-UP
It's been a busy year for Maltese music, busier than 2014 if we have to go by the number of releases as a whole. There were certainly...
Michael Bugeja
- Dec 29, 2015
- 2 min
TONI SANT'S TOP LOCAL PICKS FOR 2015
Toni Sant needs no introduction really; an academic, a radio, TV, online and overall media personality, and also the artistic director at...
Michael Bugeja
- Dec 7, 2015
- 3 min
INTERVISTA: CHRISTABELLE CURMI
Twieldet l-Awstralja u bdiet tkanta ta’ eta’ zgħira, talent li kompliet issawwar hi u tikber, filwaqt li wkoll daħlet fid-dinja...
Michael Bugeja
- Oct 24, 2015
- 1 min
NEW SONG FROM TROFFAHAMRA
There’s a particularly alluring quality to the songs that Ruth Abela has been writing under the guise of TroffaHamra. They’re brittle,...
Michael Bugeja
- Oct 22, 2015
- 1 min
INTERVIEW WITH BRIKKUNI ON ROCKNA
With rehearsals now in full swing and the band fully focused on its upcoming live performances at Teatru Manoel in Valletta later this...
Michael Bugeja
- Sep 28, 2015
- 3 min
FROM THE BRIKKUNI SCRAPBOOK (PART 1)
It's been a while since Malta's notorious Brikkuni have performed live. In fact it's been a while since we've heard anything from the...
Michael Bugeja
- Sep 26, 2015
- 2 min
THE SOUNDS OF NEIL HALSTEAD
I first heard of Neil Halstead back in the 1990s when he was in Slowdive, at the time when 'shoegazing' was the new fad. Inevitably...
Michael Bugeja
- Aug 11, 2015
- 3 min
10 LITTLE-KNOWN FACTS ABOUT ETNIKA
* Etnika started off as a research project in 1999. * Frans Baldacchino 'Il-Budaj' wrote some of the lyrics for Etnika. * The band has...
Michael Bugeja
- Jul 27, 2015
- 5 min
HERE COMES THE SUN!
'They came, they saw, they conquered' is probably the best way to sum up last year's Malta visit by Australian band Caravana Sun. Their...
Michael Bugeja
- Jul 20, 2015
- 5 min
A MUSICAL RIDDLE
More popularly known as an accomplished and respected composer as well as a talented and passionate musician, on the side Dominic Galea...
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