Joe Stevens, rock’n’roll photographer

When David Bowie arrived at Gare du Nord in Paris in April 1973, after a tour of Japan, he was looking a little grey. The singer was scared of flying and had spent two weeks travelling by train across Asia. At the station he was greeted, to his...

China just built the golden dome before America even finished the blueprint

The world just witnessed a reversal of power that nobody saw coming. For decades, the United States imagined it would lead the planet into a new age of missile defence, a space shield to guard humanity from annihilation. But whilst Washington was...

John Lennon and Pink Floyd Music Executive Dead at 80

Jeff Cheen, a music executive who worked with legends like John Lennon, Pink Floyd, Steve Miller and Rick James, died at 80 on Oct. 16 after a long cancer battle, according to his wife Chunhong Wang. Before his death, Cheen had a career working...

Casteism In Digital Spaces: The Normalisation Of Caste Pride And Casteist Slurs In India’s Online Culture

In August 2025, when a dancing video of three girls grooving to the beats of Milind Gaba’s chartbuster, Paris Ka Trip, took the internet by storm, little did they realise the impact of their seemingly harmless reel. The reel’s comment section soon...

The Veneration of Mimi: Mariah Carey to Be Honored as the 2026 MusiCares Person of the Year

On the heels of being presented with the MTV Video Vanguard Award in September, Mariah Carey is set to receive another prestigious honor in the coming months. The pop diva has been chosen as MusiCares’ 2026 Person of the Year. According to a press...

List: Filipino Music Awards 2025 winners

Fans of Original Pilipino Music (OPM) came together in a historic celebration on Tuesday night, Oct. 21, 2025, as the country witnessed the first-ever Filipino Music Awards (FMAs) at the SM Mall of Asia Arena. Hosted by Joey Mead King, Michael...

How China's heavy-handed rare earths threat backfired

If there is any mystery over America's historic agreement to partner with Australia this week on the supply of critical minerals, it is why it took so long. On April 4, just two days after Donald Trump's much-touted Liberation Day tariffs panicked...

Former Super Junior member Han Geng and actress Celina Jade welcome second child

Chinese singer-actor Han Geng, formerly of K-pop boy band Super Junior, is now a father of two. The 41-year-old announced on Chinese social media platform Weibo on Oct 24 that his wife, Hong Kong-American actress Celina Jade, 40, has given birth...

US carries out strike against 'drug traffickers' in Pacific

The US has carried out a strike against a fast boat manned by alleged drug traffickers, this time in the Pacific Ocean, in a first for President Donald Trump's administration. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said the “lethal kinetic strike” hit a...

When GRAMMY-winning music production came to TUMO: An interview with Peyote Beats

Armen Zabounian, known professionally as Peyote Beats, is an Armenian-American music producer. His work spans genres and countries, collaborating with artists across rap, hip-hop, K-pop, J-pop and more. A multi-instrumentalist, Peyote’s layered,...

HUNTR/X take home highest new entry this week with 'What It Sounds Like'

Taylor Swift isn’t just topping the UK charts — she’s practically subletting them at this point. The Fate of Ophelia retains its reign at the Official Singles Chart summit, marking three weeks at Number 1 with both the single and its parent album...

REVIEW POTPOURRI: Captivating concerts

Between July1973, and August 1980, I attended a number of captivating concerts in Boston, New York, Washington D.C. and Portland. In October 1973, the touring Leningrad Philharmonic under the direction of Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018)...

ICE nabs crew of illegal migrants with disturbing rap sheets during raid of NYC’s Chinatown

A dramatic ICE raid on unlicensed sidewalk vendors in the Big Apple nabbed a crew of dangerous illegal migrants — including Senegalese outlaws with lengthy rap sheets for drug trafficking, robbery, domestic violence and assaults on cops, the feds...

LE SSERAFIM’s new music video has 3 drag queens—major queer moment in K-pop

The popular K-pop group LE SSERAFIM is gearing up for the release of their upcoming single, "SPAGHETTI," and fans were pleasantly surprised to see that the teaser video that they released on Tuesday featured a drag queen. South Korea is still one...

Tina Romero on making Queens of the Dead a Queer celebration of community, survival, music, and her father’s zombie legacy

Tina Romero didn’t want to make a zombie movie. While her father, George A. Romero, didn’t invent the zombie picture, he certainly codified it into the mainstream of genre cinema with his groundbreaking 1968 underground classic Night of the Living...

China spy allegations will leave a stain for life

We now have the prosecution’s case against two men, Chris Cash and Christopher Berry, accused of spying for China: an accusation both strenuously deny. Disturbingly (for a case that has been dropped, leaving the defendants innocent before the...

ToolShell bug used by Chinese attackers against governments in Africa, South America

Incident responders have identified breaches at government agencies, telecoms and universities in several countries that began with the ToolShell vulnerability identified in July. Experts at the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team tracked...

Rugby league: Teams named for rugby league Pacific Championships week two

Photo: © NRL Photos Toa Samoa hooker Jazz Tevaga has been named in the team for this weekend's Pacific Championships match against Tonga, despite a failed head injury assessment last weekend. Samoa's management is seeking an exemption to allow him...

Drain: “It doesn’t matter if you just got into punk music or you’ve been into it your whole life – this band is for everyone”

In 1855, American poet Walt Whitman first (self-)published his masterwork collection Leaves Of Grass. Within one of the poems, initially untitled but eventually named Song Of Myself, is the first known publication of the phrase ‘I contain...

Japan shifts to the right under ‘Iron Lady’ admirer Sanae Takaichi

TOKYO - Ms Sanae Takaichi, the pro-stimulus conservative who has become Japan’s first female prime minister, is an energetic nationalist with a soft spot for the hard-nosed politics of Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher and the heavy metal music of Iron...