Music Is: Music retailer Swee Lee opens massive F&B meets lifestyle store at Clarke Quay

For any Singaporean who’s ever picked up a musical instrument, Swee Lee is an immediately recognizable household name. Rising from a humble brand stocking and selling instruments to school musical groups, they’ve come a long way and essentially have become Southeast Asia’s leading omnichannel musical instrument retailer, with stores not just in Singapore, but across the region, with not just instruments, but vinyls, and even … Continue reading Music Is: Music retailer Swee Lee opens massive F&B meets lifestyle store at Clarke Quay

Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)

Last in Singapore in 2013, Japanese multi-intrumental experimental musician Shugo Tokumaru has since released his seventh album. On TOSS, Tokumaru has expanded his quirky, eclectic pop music further still, including collaborating with Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier, to reach new sonic heights, employing instruments from xylophones to ukuleles and harps to handclaps to create impossibly colourful sounds that would give anyone synaesthesia. So it’s no surprise then that at his show at the … Continue reading Mosaic Music Series 2017: Shugo Tokumaru (Review)