Sweet trip
The three winners of the Sunsilk Sweet Trip contest – not to mention, our very own writer – flew to Seoul, South Korea to hang out with popular K-pop boy band MBLAQ.
Encounter with EXO
By AZUREEN SOON and LOI BI LIAN brats@thestar.com.my MTV World Stage was held in Malaysia for the fifth year last weekend and EXO was among the performers. BRATs had the chance to attend an exclusive invite-only group interview with members of EXO, the super rookie K-pop idol group which is divided into EXO-M and EXO-K. […]
Totally far out
By KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Kev Nish, J-Splif, , Prohgress and DJ Virman of Far East Movement had many reasons to be excited about peforming at the MTV World Stage Live in Malaysia last Sunday in Sunway Lagoon, Selangor. “We love the crowd. The energy from the Malaysian is audience is off the hook. The last […]
Spellbinding Selena
By IAN YEE alltherage@thestar.com.my When this writer was asked at the immigration counter at London Heathrow airport what he was doing in Britain, he boldly said: “I’m here for the Selena Gomez concert” – and the lady behind the counter actually laughed. Clearly being neither a bopping teenager nor an obligated parent, I wasn’t expected […]
Thanks for the memories
KEVIN TAN alltherage@thestar.com.my There is always an anticipation when a band, after a long hiatus, re-groups and goes on tour. Would they still sound the same? Is their new music any good? Do the members still share the same chemistry as when they first started? For those who were asking similar questions when news broke […]
Food for thought
By DENIELLE LEONG brats@thestar.com.my At my first BRATs assignment, I barely knew what I was doing. All I had prepared for my interview with Thia Megia (American Idol Season 10 finalist) when she visited Malaysia last year was a list of generic questions – one of which was “sowhat do you think of […]
Breaking forth
Local B-Boys were once again pumped up for the return of one of the world’s top one-on-one B-Boy competitions – the Red Bull BC One Cypher, which was held last Saturday at Chin Woo Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. One of the highlights of this event was the opportunity for breakdancing fans to watch the Red […]
Ole BRATs!
Capital FM deejay Xandria Ooi joined the BRATs in 1999 when she was 16. She went on to become a VJ for Astro’s Hitz.TV when she won the music channel’s UVJ Search in 2005, all the while writing for The Star as a BRAT. She now has her own column in StarMetro called Sights & […]
Back For More
By MELLY LING alltherage@thestar.com.my IN 2010, Paramore fans all around the world were devastated to hear that two of the American rock band’s founding members, Josh and Zac Farro, were leaving the group. That decision simply spelt death to one of the coolest rock bands to grace the music world. Lead singer, Hayley Williams, […]