GIGS TO GET PISSED DRUNK AT THIS COMING NEW YEAR

Question: What do Einstein Chakras, Halfmast, Nevertheless, PinkCow, The Strayguns, Steady Movin Beat' and The Exsenadors have in common?

Answer: These bands have all been part of the Bisikleta Productions family in one way or another. And what better way to celebrate new year is to be with FAMILY.

As you have supported Bisikleta Productions in the past years, please support Indokumentado Productions and D' Kwatro Productions this coming new year, these groups are the keepers of the faith, they are keeping up the good fight please help them keep the fire burning. Mabuhay kayo!

I'VE GOT FOUR WORDS FOR YOU: MALABON NAVOTAS HARD CORE

Besides Dolor's kakanin, the iconic pansit luglug, jazz legend Angel Peña and poet Ophelia Dimalanta. The twin cities of Malabon and Navotas is a hotbed of talented artist and musicians that played out a pivotal role in the emergence of one of the most important form of rebel music as well as its subculture in the 80's non other than punk rock. These cities had produced some of the infamous bands this side of Asia the likes of Third World Chaos, Dead Ends, Private Stock, and G.I. and the Idiots to name a few that had swept underground Manila during those years giving birth to the Malabon-Navotas Hardcore scene.

In case you readers do not know, it is a wide known fact that Malabon and Navotas were two of the several important regional centers fostering the spread of hardcore punk in the Philippines. Their contribution to this subversive type of music is hard to deny it is still significant today as it was back then. Suffice to say that the Malabon-Navotas Hardcore scene in one way or another had influenced countless new school hardcore bands of today.

On December 17, Saturday come and witness the rebirth of this mighty hardcore scene in the northern coastal town of Manila. Featuring the twin city luminaries Throw, The GoSignals, Against Man and Nekbu. Joining them are Hard K, Wolfshaman, Class Bunkers and Red Corpse. This event will be held at The Spot in Rosas Arcade, Concepcion, Malabon City and is lovingly produced by my good friends who stayed true to the game hardest to the core since day one. Long live Tambobong and Nabutas! Don't forget your roots, hardcore for life!