
Tunes, laughs, and the smell of an oily rag: Kampot Radio
While we find ourselves staying home an awful lot these days, in sleepy Kampot, and indeed all over the world, folk are tuning in to...
Live Music and DJ Gig Guide of Cambodia
While we find ourselves staying home an awful lot these days, in sleepy Kampot, and indeed all over the world, folk are tuning in to...
From this Saturday until the following Saturday, Phnom Penh streets and dance floors will be vibrating to the sounds of the Son Sabor Latin Trio,...
Once upon a time in the early years of the previous decade, one of the most popular bands on the Phnom Penh expat circuit was...
There’s a familiar story told around the traps by musicians in Phnom Penh – “I’d given up on music before I came here, now I...
Tucked away in an alley off Street 51 clustered with small Japanese restaurants is Embargo, a craft beer bar co-founded by Jeff Baker, a sometimes...
One of the more unusual musical developments of 2020 in Phnom Penh was the emergence of the Table 6 Miniature Harmonica Orchestra (T6MHO). You may...
Just like last year, for the last Leng Pleng of the year, we’ve passed the hat around for a collection of memories of gigs and...
This year started as the preceding few did: Phnom Penh had increasingly been on the itinerary of bands passing through South East Asia, there were...
Way back in August 2013 I took to the stage behind the drum kit at Slur Bar in a brand new rockabilly band with my...
Phnom Penh can be a tough town for a classically trained musician; gigs are few and far between. This weekend there are two treats –...
Vanntin Hoeurn, the softly-spoken, loudly-screaming, rock’n’roll-haired front for Sliten6ix, Phnom Skor, The Phnom Devils, Reign in Slumber and Blood Bricks is about to leave Phnom...
Call me old fashioned, but while styles and gadgets come and go, the wheel keeps turning back to the simple alchemy of a couple of...
Another post-COVID weekend in Phnom Penh, another new band. The six piece Maki Orkestr will be “kindling the fire of the Gypsy spirit,” playing music...
Funan Beat Empire grew from the combined imaginations of Adrien Gayraud (The Schkoots, Moi Tiet) and Pierre Lenormand, a production team you may remember from...
The great 2020 closing of borders has had many unexpected consequences. Many have found themselves trapped in places – heavens and hells both – with...
Dairon Reyes – stage name Kairon – having spent two years out front in the Havana Kings, is stretching out with a new project called...
In another life I wrote an unpublished comic crime novella that referenced an imagined book called Skinny White Guys: The Unlikely Triumph of British Blues,...
After eight and a half years in Cambodia, singer Rhiannon Johnson is moving on to her next adventure. She will front one last big gig...
As the city slowly comes back to live music, each week we seem to be welcoming back bands and performers that we haven’t seen for...
As Phnom Penh slowly reopens for gigs, one of the faces and voices making a big splash is Intan Andriana. Both of her Friday night...
With St Patrick’s Day in their sights, Darwin band The Bloody Marys have landed in Phnom Penh to bring us their Celtic/ska/punk blend of sounds...
Visiting Phnom Penh this weekend is Ryan Cook, a Canadian singer-songwriter in the classic vintage country style with a good dose of hillbilly rolled in. ...
Among the harder working gigging musicians in Phnom Penh is singer Mirasol Aguila. Most weekends she’s out performing with a range of musicians – including...
There’s a special celebration this weekend in Siem Reap – the recording studio 60 Road marks its five year anniversary with a concert on Saturday...
2013 was a dramatic year in Phnom Penh expat music. There were innovative and supportive venues like Equinox, Sharky and Slur Bar, and many bands...
New from Battered Hat Creations this week is Around the Traps, a collection of interviews and writings about music in Phnom Penh in 2019 by...