MANILA'S FINEST INDIE POP LABEL
A year-end gig and The Camerawalls' first after a four-year hiatus. This event will be a reunion of sorts with old and new acts combined. Head to the iconic 70s Bistro on December 10, 2016 and catch The Camerawalls, The Gentle Isolation, We Are Imaginary (formerly Your Imaginay Friends), The Bernadettes, Meagan Trees, Bing Austria [...]
I'm still hungover over Club 8's visit to the Philippines even after weeks since the conclusion of the shows we co-produced plus the fact that Lilystars has already turned two years old last May. I cannot recall including concert production on a large scale as part of our plan of activities. Lilystars as I heard [...]
What began as a joke one most likely drunken night while hanging out at Lilystars’ headquarters in Cubao finally found its way to Route 196 last January 30. My memory isn’t serving me as well as I had hoped it would as I begin to write this, but I do remember several occasions where us [...]
Browsing our event page I noticed that The POP Shoppe! started off 2009 with a Smiths tribute entitled "Oh, We Handsome Devils." It was then I realize we have come full circle with the recent tribute to Morrissey, our first event for 2010. What is it about this man that makes him tick? How he [...]
(From the review section of PULP Magazine's November Issue #101 by music editor Jason Caballa) These days, when people speaks of singles, one would mean a song or track from a musical act's full length album that was chosen either by that particular act (or in most cases, their record label) to be played on [...]
Tribute nights in Manila abounds and even became a fad for a time being by mini production outfits in choice venues. The POP Shoppe! joined in the bandwagon by organizing a few of our own enthusiastic theme nights that hollers the name of great musicians like The Beatles, The Jam, The Smiths and even Blur. [...]
"Calamity is man's true touchstone." I read this somewhere -- a quote from English dramatists Beaumont & Fletcher. Indeed many will be gauged during disastrous moments such as one of extensive impact on Manila and 25 neighboring provinces under the name of Typhoon Ondoy (internationally know as Typhoon Ketsana) which displaced almost half a million [...]
