The Philippine Online Chronicles

Articles by Ren Aguila

• The novelty of it all: A review of Peter Gabriel's 'New Blood'

  19 December 2011   That song is a love ballad with a very good beat, but it was not quite meant to be that way. O…

• I'll scratch yours: A review of Peter Gabriel's 'Scratch My Back'

  14 November 2011 I review this now because this 2010 album sets the stage for the new Peter Gabriel album, New Bloo…

• Alternatives to the Alternative: Manny Montelibano exhibit review

  12 October 2011   One artist played the drum machine, a veritable repertoire of sampled drum beats at his comman…

• Shakespeare in groove

  14 September 2011 Renaissance Man was not one of actor Danny de Vito or director Penny Marshall's best films. It was…

• Manilart 2011: A postmortem

  07 September 2011 But the most important thing was, of course, Manilart itself. The festival is in its third staging…

• The Folk U Playlist: Part II – Fando and Lis

  22 August 2011   The other one is that I am acknowledged in the liner notes for precisely that reason. Fando…

• The Folk U Playlist: Part 1 – Hannah+Gabi

  15 August 2011 That night, however, Mikey Amistoso had something to show us. Ciudad's lead singer was at that t…

• A progressive future, with Chapman stick

  06 July 2011 About eight months later, I recognized the name and band affiliation of one of the members of Hu…

• Will you be here tomorrow?

  29 June 2011 The documentary was featured as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival. It i…

• Get me that pterodactyl, quick! - An Adele Blanc-Sec review

  27 June 2011 A similarly vibrant and silly opening leads us into 1910s Paris, the world of The Extraordinary Ad…