Lanka has always had a honest need for creative spaces for dancers, artists and anyone in the music scene and here’s the newest one by singer & performer – Natasha Rathnayaka. Packed with a studio space, a very large dance rehearsal space with a ton of very cool graffiti on the walls, a mini pool and a recreational space among other spaces, all in Ratmalana! We caught up with her... Source
Sinhala Rock band Story is back with another studio release featuring a fresh rapper they perform most live shows with – Shenal S’Ke. This is their second single and is a must check out! Source
The announcement of The Wacken Metal Battle CMB dropped early this month and we got catching up with The Suriya Brothers for a quick Q&A on the event, judges, rock Saturday and a ton more. Source
It’s been a minute since the rapper last dropped music but here’s the official taster to a single that’s already sounding pretty dope! Full length drops everywhere digital on the 6th of September. Source
Rapper Chinthy is back with this pretty interesting offering titled ‘Waraka Madula’. It makes for one of the fewer times the island has seen such an amazing amalgamation of hip hop, some baila and spanish elements and one in our books is a winner of a single. Check out the video that dropped yesterday! Source
The much anticipated video for Ridma’s viral hit ‘Kuweni’ dropped on YouTube last night and has been garnering some crazy good buzz. This is one of those videos that will require quite a bit of watching as the story tends to leave you wanting to hit the play button quite a few times, trust us..its worth it!
It’s been a minute since producer Yaka has put out material and here’s his newest, a collaboration with Rappers Mandira N Maliga, featuring freshers DOTA and Shashini Janz. Source
Our island has been repped internationally for quite a while now, from Ranidu playing 3 consecutive times at Ultra Music Festival (pic source: ranidu’s fb fan page) To Selectro also marking 3 years at Tomorrowland this year (pic source: Selectro’s fb fan page) 2017 saw Subandrio & Nishan Lee rep the island at Amsterdam Dance Event which is also ...
Sri Lanka does have a small but amazing wealth of artists who have their music on Spotify. Here’s our list of 5 artists you need to get discovering from this little side of paradise! Arnon Ray Pereira Front man of the Drift band and a brilliant solo artist in his own right, Colombo based Arnon Ray Pereira has been putting ...
It was on Sunday when Island Mafia decided to drop their teaser for a brand new singled titled ‘Sasara Papare’ and here’s the boys with deets! Haven’t checked out the teaser yet? Whatcha waiting for? Source
Suran Jayathilaka is no stranger to the metal scene of Sri Lanka, last seen with his band ‘Aural Discord’ that played at quite a few gigs (including Alternative Sunday & Nothnegal Live In Sri Lanka). We had to catch up with him as he is in an all new band – Far From Refuge. DB: It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from you, what have you been upto? Suran: End of... Source
Friday night saw the release of an all new single by rapper, singer & producer Neo and this single featured his protege – Freaky MobBig. We caught up with them for the scoop on the single, new music and more! Source
It was only a few days ago that rapper Ras Ceylon (Heal Lanka / Repatriation Time fame) released his brand new ep and we had to get catching up with him on this and more. DB: What have you been up to since it’s been a minute that you did music / release anything. Ras Ceylon: Yes indeed, since I’ve returned ...
Aussie based Lakan artist Mika Ceylon is gonna be dropping an all new single and if you want to, get pre-ordering the single now on Spotify . ‘Guys Like You’ will be out on the 3rd of April and will be her second release this year. The first one being the re-release of ‘Keep It Apart’ ft Ryan KP. Source
To understand Asela Perera’s music, it is first necessary to travel back in time to the short, 3-album career’s obscure folk musician, Nick Drake. pic source : https://www.counter-currents.com/2018/07/the-englishness-of-nick-drake/ Drake’s music retains a cult appeal to date. Nearly 50 years after being ‘inducted’ to the infamous 27 Club, his music continues to... Source ...
Lanka Comic Con this year sure was a blast and we’re glad to have been a part of it! In case you couldnt make it to Comic Con or missed out awesome performances at our first Open Mic event, here’s the video! Source
Their all new limited edition Lp “Ceylonese Terror’, is a compilation of live recordings from various gigs Live at Tantra.War.Blast.III (2017) 1. Ethnoheretical Padmavyuha Consecration 2. Nectars Of Tantric Murder 3. All And/Or Nothing 4. Shivatandaviolence Live at Siyanepura Devastation (2018) 5. Ethnoheretical Padmavyuha Consecration 6. Militant Thrishul (Eradiction Puja) Live at... Source
