Kita tidak boleh membiarkan band perempuan di kancah musik Indonesia berkarya di jalan yang sunyi. Kita harus memberi apresiasi lebih pada mereka, memberikan ruang yang sama dan setara untuk mereka, dan membicarakan mereka sebagai bagian dari diskursus dan diskusi musik Indonesia. Kita harus berani membongkar hyper-masculinity dan budaya patriarki yang telanjur bercokol kokoh di semua lini kehidupan, termasuk di kancah musik.
That's the reason I often leave Spotify lately and prefer to listen to a collection of physical releases or FLAC format music on my laptop. The seventy million songs on Spotify is too big a universe for me to explore at all. So, I changed the way I listen to music in this contemporary era. Back to analog format, for the convenience of listening to better music.
Despite the regime change, Dialita's music may not be able to eradicate the stigma and eliminate the culture impunity. However, was not Dialita's original goal to target the younger generation? So, by listening to Dialita songs, we should be more historically literate and become more aware of our history. As founding president Soekarno once stated: “Never forget history”. We should never forget the 1965 humanitarian tragedy.
Looking at the case of torture with music at the Guantánamo prison in Cuba, I then concluded that without the awareness to listen to it at your own choice, music can turn into torture.
I thought about this for a long time: what is the use of music to humans and humanity? Is music just entertainment, a secondary matter that appears as an intermezzo in the midst of other life lines such as work, eat, sleep, make love? Or, music is a primary matter, an equally important part of life?
Regardless of the motives or intentions of musicians when composing religious songs, they deserve appreciation. Their songs can be a catharsis for Muslims in the country to cultivate faith and treat their spiritual longings.
What happens if one of the music streaming service giants spreads misinformation about COVID-19? The result was a huge uproar. The streaming behemoth is Spotify, and the uproar is the calls to boycott and/or delete people's Spotify accounts.
Di mata saya Superman Is Dead akan tetap menjadi sebuah fenomena sosial yang menarik. Tentang bagaimana band asal Bali ini meruntuhkan patron musik mainstream Indonesia yang Jakartasentris, tentang bagaimana sebuah band asal arus samping (sidestream) mampu mengubah tatanan selera musik di ranah arus utama (mainstream), dan tentang sebagaimana digubah SID dalam “Punk Hari Ini”, punk dan segala simbologinya seperti rambut spike dan lambang anarki telah menyaru dalam banyak lini kehidupan kita.
Buku Homicide VS Orde Baru ini akan menjadi catatan sejarah yang apik. Bahwa di nasion bernama Indonesia ini pernah ada sebuah kolektif hip-hop bernama Homicide, serta bagaimana kolektif ini berjibaku melawan penindasan dan kesewenang-wenangan.
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced music concerts to shift from the big stage to the small screen. Can an online music concert beat the sensation of watching a live music concert?
Aris Setyawan 