Asia Pacific Arts, UCLA Asia Institute

Singaporean Punk Rock Group Releases Rebellious Debut Album

Zircon Gov. Pawn Starz, the threesome formerly known as Zircon Lounge, recently released their debut album Follywood. Reviews have interpreted the album’s explicit lyrics and risqué content as an attempt to rebel againstSingapore’s restrictive government and loosen up the conservative population.

The album is a combination of punk-rock music and anti-establishment sentiments. In songs like "Media Whore" the group attacks pop-stars in Singapore as people that cater to the mainstream without having a mind of their own.

This is a gutsy album that parodies the Singaporean national crest on the front cover and flaunts the phrase, “Nu-school f*cker, Singapore f*cker!”

Defined.

Zircon Gov Pawn Starz are Singapore's premier art-punk/electro-enfant-terrorists. They are called Sue Sue Law, X'Ho and Yeow. These may be common names in Singapore, so ignore any inferred glamour.Their album has Chicks on Speed and peter christopherson on it. You can dance to them. They look a bit like Sigue Sigue Sputnik, but good. This all might not have worked. They kind of pull it off.

Suzanne on her involvement with ZGPS

PRESS RELEASE WKRZ DJs don't just play music, they make music as well. Getting out of their radio studios and into the recording studios, 3 WKRZ DJs have been producing songs with various local talents. Not straying too far from the music that the station already plays, the DJs themselves have been hard at work, dabbling in electronic music to further fulfil their core audience of techno and trance addicts. Jason Chow, AVP/music director of WKRZ, is also one-third of the commercial dance and techno wizards, The Usual Suspects. Apart from steering the creative direction of the band, the man has provided the vocals on tracks like "Come on over", 'Is it too late" and "Black Man Ray", all of which appear on their debut album. KS Lee, Creative Producer/Presenter at WKRZ has also recently teamed up The Usual Suspects to record a trance/dance update of "Pure" which was originally a hit for Lightning Seeds circa 1990. The response for these tra...

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