This month’s youth-led campaigns on election awareness and internet safety Still from Pagpukaw by Maria Payb Biglete Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “we cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” Global challenges such as the coronavirus,...
' Mag-ingat ' always! As the world is on the cusp of building the metaverse, the role of the internet has never been more essential. It has built intangible bridges that connect everyone as people are pushed to keep their distance due to the pandemic. But—and this is not news—it is also a host...
GIGAPLAY BB KUWADERNO Experience a virtual serenade like no other as leading mobile services provider Smart Communications, Inc. brings OPM fans closer to Filipino folk-rock band Ben&Ben’s first-ever online concert, “Kuwaderno,” on Smart GigaPlay beginning Jan. 30. In a recent grand...
Clockwise: John Mayer, Olivia Rodrigo, Adele, Taylor Swift, Arthur Nery, and Ben & Ben As 2021 draws to a close, we look back to the albums and music artists that made their marks. Space constraint meant that we had to focus on the artists and songs that cut through the noise. When everyone...
Top audio streaming platform Spotify revealed the top artists, albums, songs, playlists and podcasts from its 381 million users around the world. It unveiled its Spotify 2021 Wrapped, listing the most streamed songs, artists and podcasts. In the Philippines, breakout star and Spotify RADAR...
The 34th Awit Awards, the biggest music recognition show in the land, ran an online awards presentation without a hitch. The big winners of the 34th Awit Awards were revealed on an online show presentation last Monday night, 29th of November 2021. The music awards show chose to go the online route...
Concerts stream on KTX.PH The hottest and brightest OPM performers led by Maymay Entrata, Angeline Quinto, SB19, Ben & Ben, BGYO, BINI are ready to light up the holidays with exciting concerts that will be streamed on KTX.PH. Coming fresh from the success of her single, "Amakabogera," Maymay...
Paolo Benjamin Guico of the OPM band Ben&Ben paid tribute to a Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) student who died in the fire. (Photo from Elise Danielle Delos Reyes) Guico performed in the wake of Melanie Trinidad, a graduating student from PUP who died i n a fire after she...
Singer-songwriter Paolo Benjamin Guico of Ben&Ben honored a fan who passed away recently by performing at her wake. Paolo performed several of his band's hits to pay tribute to 21-year-old Melanie Trinidad who died in a fire in Quezon City. A certain Facebook user named Elise Danielle Delos...
Ben&Ben Social issues, not just mushy romantic yearnings and hang-ups, make up the core of the bold new songs unleashed in Ben&Ben’s highly anticipated second album, “Pebble House Vol 1: Kuwaderno.” I felt both moved, bothered, and bewildered by most of the...
A tour of the critically acclaimed folk-pop band’s Pebble House, Vol. 1: Kuwaderno MUSICIANS AND CHRONICLERS Clockwise from left: Ben&Ben members Agnes, Jam, the Benjamin brothers, Andrew, Toni, Kiefer, and Poch August ended with a bang as Ben&Ben launched their latest album Pebble House,...
After an instrumental prelude in the title track, the up-tempo MOR pop sounding track “Kasayaw” officially opens up Ben & Ben’s second full length album. It starts out with a 70’s yacht rock vibe recalling Todd Rundgren’s “Can We Still Be Friends.” But before it gets too close, it...
