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<p>Expand Southeast Asian contemporary music and regional listening; preserve private geography ownership, current recordings and native bindings.</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:46, 25 October 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l22">Line 22:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 22:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sobs, Subsonic Eye, Forests, m1ldl1fe, Pleasantry, Electrico, Caracal and Wormrot are useful entrances. A foreign artist filmed in a Singapore forest is not the Singapore band Forests; exact performer identity matters.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sobs, Subsonic Eye, Forests, m1ldl1fe, Pleasantry, Electrico, Caracal and Wormrot are useful entrances. A foreign artist filmed in a Singapore forest is not the Singapore band Forests; exact performer identity matters.</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l27">Line 27:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 29:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Recording entrances ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== Recording entrances ===</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sobs — Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNe-ua3f9U Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;; <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Air Guitar" by Sobs (official video) </del>— <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"Air Guitar" by Sobs (official video)</del>&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6PAoFRUU7GQ "Air Guitar" by Sobs (official video)</del>] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;. These are particular versions, not a claim that every work by the same performer belongs here.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Sobs — Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNe-ua3f9U Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;; <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Subsonic Eye </ins>— <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">SUBSONIC EYE  Bandwagon Sessions #23</ins>&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">do2XfAWxJVA SUBSONIC EYE  Bandwagon Sessions #23</ins>] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;. These are particular versions, not a claim that every work by the same performer belongs here.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Related genres ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Related genres ==</div></td></tr> <!-- diff cache key muglobe-wiki-216c67dcaa45b807:diff:1.41:old-8110:rev-8200:php=table --> </table>

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<p>Expand Southeast Asian contemporary music and regional listening; preserve private geography ownership, current recordings and native bindings.</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Summary ==<br /> <br /> Singapore indie and alternative rock is a broad band-music route through guitar pop, dream pop, emo-related music, post-hardcore and selected heavier independent work. These are different scenes connected through local production, audiences and performance networks.<br /> <br /> == Contemporary and trending ==<br /> <br /> The current listening route brings identified local releases and performances into the station alongside continuing familiar repertoire. Sobs, Subsonic Eye, Forests, m1ldl1fe, Pleasantry, Electrico, Caracal and Wormrot are useful entrances. Newer discovery is a priority, while worthwhile older recordings remain playable. A streaming or festival appearance demonstrates circulation in that setting; it is not converted into a measured national audience share.&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.esplanade.com/-/media/Esplanade/Download-Component/Press-Room/PR_Baybeats_2025.ashx?hash=9DC30ECB3FC54CAA6A78A452FCEA6CBD&amp;rev=55cf05bd35c94bd198a5120e7b92c0a0 Esplanade: Baybeats 2025 programme].&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == History ==<br /> <br /> Independent labels, rehearsal spaces and festivals have sustained bands alongside mainstream popular music. Esplanade’s Baybeats programme documents one important platform connecting local and regional artists. Festival participation is evidence of a performance network, not a complete measure of public taste.<br /> <br /> == Musical characteristics ==<br /> <br /> Clean or distorted guitars, bass, drums and contrasting vocal textures give the route its range. Sobs’ concise guitar pop, Subsonic Eye’s interlocking textures, Forests’ energetic arrangements and Caracal’s heavier band interaction should remain distinguishable. Wormrot represents a far more abrasive edge.<br /> <br /> == Geography and communities ==<br /> <br /> The island’s connected venues and audience networks extend into regional touring and international independent labels. This local route prevents a Singapore station from substituting unrelated visiting bands for resident scenes, while retaining actual overseas performances by local musicians.<br /> <br /> == Artists ==<br /> <br /> Sobs, Subsonic Eye, Forests, m1ldl1fe, Pleasantry, Electrico, Caracal and Wormrot are useful entrances. A foreign artist filmed in a Singapore forest is not the Singapore band Forests; exact performer identity matters.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> === Recording entrances ===<br /> <br /> Sobs — Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yNe-ua3f9U Sobs - Friday Night (Official Video)] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;; &quot;Air Guitar&quot; by Sobs (official video) — &quot;Air Guitar&quot; by Sobs (official video)&lt;ref&gt;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PAoFRUU7GQ &quot;Air Guitar&quot; by Sobs (official video)] — primary release/performance credits.&lt;/ref&gt;. These are particular versions, not a claim that every work by the same performer belongs here.<br /> <br /> == Related genres ==<br /> <br /> [[Malay pop]]; [[Singapore pop]]; [[Singapore hip-hop]]; [[Dondang sayang]]; [[Zapin]].<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> &lt;references/&gt;</div>

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