Narcotics agency pushes for tighter regulation on vapes & nitrous oxide in Indonesia

Lab tests found nearly a quarter of vape liquid samples contained narcotics; every sample tested during investigations came back positive

Singapore: Dub Skank’in Hifi x Freeform present Dub to Drum & Bass feat. Ray Keith

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Artists exciting us in 2026 / February

Our monthly round-up of names from Asia & the diaspora, making major noise & moves everywhere that matters

Industry figures address AI-generated music in Say No to Suno open letter

"The hijacking of the world’s entire treasure-trove of music floods platforms with AI slop and dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived."

Anonymous user overloads Soulseek with thousands of Homer Simpson "covers"

It's estimated at least 2,000 tracks currently feature vocals from the cartoon patriarch on the file-sharing platform

Gorillaz drop trailer for animated short ‘The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God’

Both the band’s hand-drawn film and new album ‘The Mountain’ arrive this weekend

Daft Punk share new music video for 'Human After All' on fifth anniversary of split

The new visual features footage from the Robots' 2006 film Electroma, edited by creative director Cédric Hervet

Musicmine founder Hideoki Amano has died aged 63

Since establishing the label group in 1994, Amano helped lay the groundwork for the Japanese techno scene throughout the '90s and '00s