At the time, Myanmar’s mainstream music scene was limited to pop and rock, but Novem Htoo, who had spent his troubled teenage years listening to pirated tracks from Slipknot and Limp Bizkit ...

Sure, he’s ripped off dozens of American rock songs. But just as Acid brought hip-hop to Myanmar’s crumbling streets, Lay Phyu brought heavy metal to this cloistered and oppressed nation of ...

Banned music was smuggled in on tapes and CDs and an underground scene of punks and headbangers began to grow up out of sight of Myanmar’s notorious police in the 90s. Today the arts are ...

“I think Rebel Riot is using the vehicle of music to put a message across is punk rock in its purest form and optimum application.” Having visited Myanmar in 2008 in the wake of Cyclone ...

YANGON—Myanmar is better-known for crimson-robed Buddhist monks and the trampling of a decades-old democracy movement than a cutting-edge rock-music scene. But as the country gradually emerges ...

belting out rock songs, and he played sold-out shows in stadiums across the country. Everywhere he went, fans hounded him for selfies and autographs. But all that fame was confined to Myanmar, a ...

One of Myanmar's most famous ... ascribes the rise of the copy-song in the 1960s in part to the realisation by the Burmese authorities that this prevented catchy rock and roll tunes reaching ...

He and his entourage say more about what's happening in Myanmar today than they do about music. Closed off from ... lead singer in the indie rock band Side Effect. "He's still a punk and he ...

Beloved Myanmar rock bands Empire and Iron Cross will take the stage at Thingyan water festival celebrations this year in Yangon. The water festival, known as Songkran in Thailand, is the ...