Synopsis: October 20th, 1947 was a historical day in the rakyat’s constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism. This documentary chronicles the events that culminated in the Malaya-wide ‘Hartal’ day of protest against the...
To those missing out on the NegaraKuKu “controversy” here in Malaysia, read this first: here When I first saw it, there’s an English subtitle tacked upon the video and it seemed rather crude, skipping...
Recently I wrote about how Paul Fox, The Ruts guitarist, battling untreatable lung cancer and that a benefit gig was planned with The Ruts reforming for the first time in 20 years and that...
To those (like me) excitedly waiting for the arrival of Control, the feature film about the life of Joy Division’s singer Ian Curtis (as told by his wife, lover and friends, and directed by...
shot, recorded, edited by Fahmi Reza. Carburetor Dung at the Stick It To The Man gig @ The Studio, CM Annexe, Central Market – Saturday 17th March 2007. singalong.. Potong Nama, Tutup Buku Tak...
for those who are being stopped/threatened/terrorised from seeing it live, here’s the video of a performance on the night of Hari Hak Asasi Sedunia, 10th December 2006 at the scene where their houses were...
I was introduced to the madness and the taut but unhinged power of The Birthday Party via John Peel’s Radioshow on shortwave BBC way back in the early 80s, and from then on I...
Many years ago when my band put out a 7″ vinyl single, a kid from Pahang who ordered it wrote back to me asking me what kind of CD is that! I told him...
A trailer of sort for an upcoming documentary with footages taken by people in and around the German crust band Cluster Bomb Unit when they did a Southeast Asian tour recently. The title translates...
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hello there.
this is a zine, an archive, a blog, an event calendar, a place where rock’n’roll, especially of the fringe + underground, independent, DIY and related, came to be highlighted, promoted and documented.
running as a scene-blog since 2004, this website was operating as The Ricecooker Shop‘s portal from early 2007. TRS was a physical, brick’n’mortar music store first based at the Annexe, Central Market for more than three years, before moving on to two different locations in the city.
three years after the shop closed down in 2014, it morphed into a library/museum or an archive. we call this The Ricecooker Archives – Southeast Asian Rock’n’Roll Treasury (quite grand, we know).
The Ricecooker Archives have our own space at 84B, The Zhongshan Building, Jalan Rotan, Kampung Attap, Kuala Lumpur. here we collect, collate, clean-up, digitize, database and archive rock’n’roll artifacts from around the region. our aim is to preserve and to share it with the world.
note: the setting up our physical archives is still on-going, so those who wanna come meet and visit, do get in touch with us first. terima kasih.