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  • ASAP Corner - Commentary - Music

    “Babydoll Dresses and Dirty Minds: How Art Suffers from Perversion” by Gabby Woehr

    7 August 2026

    In early June, Olivia Rodrigo attracted controversy while promoting her newest album. While creating a concert film for Spotify’s Billions Club, she drew unwanted attention to her outfit, rather than her music.

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    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026

    “As Strong as a Yak: Review of Jess Butterworth’s Running on the Roof of the World” by Sandhyaa Venkatachalam

    2 October 2026
  • ASAP Corner - Music

    Bismillah by Peter Cat Recording Co. — A Life Lived Between Drift and Surrender

    3 May 2026

    Deepanshu Premani — Excerpt: Bismillah is not an album that sits quietly in the background. It creates a space and pulls the listener into it.

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    “The Geography of Unfinished Memory: Trauma, Belonging and the Ethics of Return in Umair Ahmed Khan’s The Valley of Unfinished Songs” by Wani Nazir

    8 October 2026

    “The Unease Beneath the Ordinary: Review of Geet Chaturvedi’s Scent of the Nameless, tr. Anita Gopalan” by Tarang Sinha

    2 October 2026

    “As Strong as a Yak: Review of Jess Butterworth’s Running on the Roof of the World” by Sandhyaa Venkatachalam

    2 October 2026
  • Culture - Music - Weekly Features

    Hunting for Joy through Music — Holding Absence’s The Noble Art Of Self-Destruction

    3 November 2024

    Mark McConville — Excerpt: To create art, you must be ambitious, and Holding Absence shows they’re masters of melancholia while breaking ground.

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    “The Wife in the Corner Frame” by Namrata

    4 October 2026

    “Lord Shiva in Singapore” by Pavle Radonić

    27 September 2026

    “In Search of Lost Spectres” by Paromita Patranobish

    27 September 2026

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