Mengzy Selects – 044 / February

Mixmag Asia's bass purveyor Mengzy shares her musical discoveries from around the region

“Something we can nurture and grow responsibly”: Wonderfruit expands with Open Fields & Kyoto chapter

Stretching beyond 5 days & Thailand, Music Director Phuong Le mentions how the expansion sharpens the festival’s curatorial focus

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

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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