It seems like it has been an annual festival of music during every Philippine Independence Day comprising acclaimed OPM and local artists performing for a free party and freedom celebration. It’s a chance for us to be proud of our own music heritage, here are the list I gathered for this special presentation:
Rico Blanco Live!
Music Museum | 830pm
Tickets are available at smtickets.com (470-2222), ticketworld.com.ph (891-9999) and musicmuseum.com.ph (721-6726).

Freedom! Ely Buendia Live!
2/F, Newport Mall | 6pm Onwards
Free concert!
Freedom Ride! Freedom Concert!
A Campaign for Human Trafficking Free Philippines
Eastwood Central Plaza
Ride out at 730am, Concert starts at 930am
Performances by Up Dharma Down, Radioactive Sago Project, Noel Cabangon and many more! Photo courtesy of Dakila.ph. Free concert!

Bamboo Live!, an Independence Day concert at Food Street SM Southmall, 7pm. Free concert!
Bayang Barrios Live! (A Birthday Gig and Malaya Album Tour)
Conspiracy Garden Cafe with Noel Cabangon, 9pm
Facebook Face Off: Freedom Rocks!
Free concert with Join The Club and Tanya Markova as they rock freedom at Gateway Park, Araneta Center, 6pm
Independence Music Festival
Tiendesitas Activity Center | 7pm
04 June 2013: Rivermaya | Oktaves | K.A. Antonio
05 June 2013: Jay Durias | Freestyle | Paolo Santos
06 June 2013: Sandwich | Peso Movement | Top Junk
11 June 2013: Wolfgang | Razorback | K.A. Antonio
12 June 2013: Kitchie Nadal | Barbie Almalbis | Paolo Santos
13 June 2013: Juan dela Cruz | The Jerks | Top Junk
Appreciate and listen to them live! So why not rock for freedom and support OPM? See you there!
Independence Music Fest
Tiendesitas Activity Center | 7pm
Celebrate OPM this June at the Activity Center on the following dates:
04 June 2013: Rivermaya | Oktaves | K.A. Antonio
05 June 2013: Jay Durias | Freestyle | Paolo Santos
06 June 2013: Sandwich | Peso Movement | Top Junk
11 June 2013: Wolfgang | Razorback | K.A. Antonio
12 June 2013: Kitchie Nadal | Barbie Almalbis | Paolo Santos
13 June 2013: Juan dela Cruz | The Jerks | Top Junk
Support OPM!
Catch Barbecue Tayo Dyan, Sandwich’s Fat Salt & Flame Album Tour and street party happening on the following dates and venues:
17 May 2013 - Cubao X
23 May 2013 - Saguijo
25 May 2013 - Davao

Featuring performances by Bignay Sound System, Wilderness, Indie.Nial, Duster, Major Chi, Fying Ipis and DMAPS.
In Sales Street, Davao City, Sandwich will be joined by Gaijin, Turbo Goth, Tarsius, The Diegos, DJ Mon of Team Manila, Friendship Lagoon, Long Bond Yellow Papers, Skymarines, Lucas and The Sound of Go. Watch the video invitation HERE.
Tickets at 300.00
Sandwich’s Fat Salt And Flame is now OUT in your favorite record stores and also available for digital download at mymusicstore, LINK HERE!
Fat Salt And Flame is a 10-track all-original album featuring the carrier single Back for More, music video above courtesy of polyeastrecords. Vote for Back For More on MYX at www.myxph.com.
Visit our post of Sandwich’s Fat Salt & Flame album launch HERE.
Fat Salt & Flame Signifies Sandwich’s 15 Years of Rock Music
Pinoy rock band Sandwich performed to introduce their brand new release Fat Salt & Flame launched at the CentrisWalk last 12 Apr 2013. The album launch was a success. They’re geared towards audience satisfaction of a guaranteed outstanding performance onstage for all the songs from the album including old hits like Selos, Procastinator, Sabotage, Cheese Factory and Nahuhulog.
We’re happy to see our photo set of this event posted HERE on Soupstar Entertainment Inc.’s www.soupstar.ph.
We also attended the band’s mini presscon to get to know more about the band, thanks to Ms. Tricia Pablo. Sandwich has been very conversable and vocal among the bands I’ve seen.
Fat Salt & Flame is an album with monotone design scheme, packed with song lyrics and band portraits. Its a 9-track album, the 7th release, 1st recorded it live, written, arranged, performed and produced by Sandwich. The album title Fat Salt & Flame represents the elements of good food as it interprets their love for food especially during the group’s tour and travel.
With the luxury of time, album’s recording process include rehearsing a total of 25 to 30 songs, tried and performed it live, choose the best out of it, captured the its energy more than the feel and listened to all of it over and over again to attain perfection.
Get to see the band’s documentation and in the making of Fat, Salt & Flame and fab shoes through the hashtag #sandwichrecording or in this LINK. Speaking of fab shoes, notice Raym’s tangerine kicks, they’re beautiful.
Album highlights:
1. The song Mayday which Sandwich produce for the indie movie Ang Nawawala has been part of its soundtrack, a film by Marie Jamora.
2. Bassist Myrene Academia and guitarist Mong vocals on the song New Romancer.
3. Razorback’s Tirso Ripol played a guitar solo on Manhid.
4. Fat Salt & Flame is an instrumental track, one of the few things their record label Polyeast Records trusted them to create their set of music for this album, its their signature sound taken into new heights.
5. The album has no unifying concept but it has elements of distinctive tones and melodies that have always been the heart of Sandwich.
Sandwich celebrates 15 years, they’ve broken the rules and go on to develop their own style. The band were unified by their passion, camaraderie, hard work and shared musical influences. They’ve emerged as a solid musical force for many years yet Sandwich still manage to take care of each other even after they’ve created each other’s own individual scenes with specific sounds through other bands. “You have to take care of your group. In all our band that’s the major thing dapat, that you have to take care of the people also and you would have to have enough love to take a bullet for them no matter what, parang pamilya mo na ito eh, kasama mo on the road, same van, same hotel, same airport. If you hate them it won’t work,” says Rayms. They confessed spending more quality time together more than their own family and love ones beyond music.
As Sandwich always supported other bands who then become a family to them, they believed that patronizing the whole OPM team is the key to success. “Having more than one band gets you to do other things with different people, play with other artists and enriches you as a person and as an artist” adds Myrene.
Sandwich is Raymund Marasigan (Vocals, Guitar), Myrene Academia (Bass, Backing Vocals), Diego Castillo (Guitar, Backing Vocals), Mong Alcaraz (Guitar, Backing Vocals) and Mike Dizon (Drums). Sandwich’s new album Fat, Salt and Flame is now available for downloads on mymusicstore and iTunes. CD is now available nationwide exclusively at AstroPlus/Astrovision released by PolyEast Records.
Here’s Sandwich’s Back For More, the album’s first carrier single, one of the many reasons to buy this album. Video by polyeastrecords.
Checkout Mayday recorded at the Tower of Doom Studios during a live recording session. Video by TOWERofDOOM.
Fat, Salt and Flame: Sandwich Album Launch
12 Apr 2013 | Centris Walk, QC | 7pm

Sandwich, the Pinoy rock band composed of Raimund Marasigan (vocals and guitars), Myrene Academia (bass and back-up vocals), Diego Castillo and Mong Alcaraz (guitars/vocals), and Mike Dizon (drums) will be launching their latest album Fat, Salt and Flame on 12 Apr 2013 as they celebrate their 15th year anniversary. Own a FREE shirt for every CD purchase, limited stocks only.

Sandwich’s Fat Salt And Flame is now available for digital download at mymusicstore, LINK HERE!
Fat Salt And Flame is a 10-track all-original album featuring the carrier single Back for More, music video above courtesy of polyeastrecords. Vote for Back For More on MYX at www.myxph.com.
Fat Salt And Flame! Be the first one to witness it live! Support OPM.
I Want Peace Concert: A Free Concert by Rock Ed Philippines
28 Sept 2012
On the following venues: Metro Manila, Baguio City, Iloilo and Davao
Four simultaneous gigs. 1 message. I Want Peace. Organized by Rock Ed Philippines and Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process.
With Performances By:
[Metro Manila] SM North Skydome at 430pm: Kitchie Nadal, Radioactive Sago Project, Spongecola, Pedicab, Paolo Santos, KontraGapi, Ernville, Young JV and the BJMP band.
[Baguio] Session Road-Rotonda: Sandwich and Ebe Dancel
[Iloilo] University of Iloilo at 6pm: Itchyworms, Khamulang, Nadalman and MicroMachines
[Davao] Matina Campus Gym, University of Mindanao: Barbie Almalbis, Malay, Anne Mendoza, The Sound of Go and Friendship Lagoon
Hindi lamang dahil maganda ang pagkakagawa ng TVC na ito ng Tanduay Rhum Rockfest kundi maganda ang hatid na mensahe ng kantang nakapaloob dito.
Isang Tinig ang titulo ng kantang ito, ang official 2012 Rhum Rockfest jingle. Kapansin-pansin ang letra nito na nagsasabing..
“Nandito na ang panahon
Gisingin na ang damdamin na natutulog
Magbuklod-buklod sa iisang mithiin
Isang layunin
Isang tinig, isang lahi, isang awitin
Itaas ang lakas ng bandala ng pusong Pilipino
Oooooh”
Malayang Pilipino: The 2012 Independence Day Concert
12 June 2012 | Quirino Grandstand | 10pm
Malayang Pilipino: The 2012 Independence Day Concert is a FREE concert organized by RockEd Philippines in celebration of the Philippines’ 114th year of Independence which will take place at the Quirino Grandstand with the performance by local bands and singers including Sandwich, Pupil, Kamikazee, The Dawn, Radioactive Sago Project, Itchyworms, Pedicab and Flippin’ Soul Stompers along with Paolo Santos, Gloc-9 and Rico Blanco.
Here’s the Malayang Pilipino: The 2012 Independence Day Concert video invitation courtesy of RockEd Philippines.
2012 Independence Theme:
Kalayaan: Pananagutan ng Bayan Para sa Tuwid na Daan
The entire month of June 2012 will be dedicated for the commemoration of Philippine freedom, activities will be in line with the theme.
Full article by angsawariko.com. More details at pia.gov.ph.
Tiendesitas Independence Week Celebration
11 to 14 June 2012
Tiendesitas Activity Center | 8pm
June 11
June 12
June 13
June 14
Concert ng Bayan: Sa ika-100 taon ng Coca-Cola lahat magwawala sa saya
23 Mar 2012 | SM Mall of Asia Concert Grounds | Gates open at 3pm
Performances by:
Get 2 Free Tickets:
1. Upsize your Coke at Jollibee, Chowking, Mang Inasal and McDonalds (SM MOA only)
2. Buy 4 bottles of COke 500mL with a single receipt at 7-Eleven (SM MOA only)
More to be announced soon!
RED REVOLUTION: Channel [V] Philippines Music Festival 2012
9 Feb 2012 | Metrowalk Parking Lot
Gates open at 3PM and show starts at 4PM!
“Find out how you can be cure!” Spread the word on music, spread HIV/AIDS awareness!
The Red Revolution, a Channel [V] Philippines Music Festival 2012 should have been scheduled last 9 Dec 2011, but for some reasons it was postponed and eventually be shown on 9 Feb 2012 to help raise the alarm for HIV AWARENESS.
So be ready to be blown away! Join the fight against AIDS! Join the ! Let’s SPREAD the LOVE!
With performances by: Sandwich, Imago, Callalily, Franco, Hilera, Moonstar 88, Typecast, Chicosci, Brownman Revival, Siakol, Grin Department, General Luna, Ebe Dancel, Pedicab, Markus Highway, Ney, Peryodiko, Paraluman, Slapshock, Razorback, Hijo, Salamin, Eevee, Kalayo, Gracenote, Ernville, Never the Strangers, Letterday Story, Kaligta, Frio, Duster, Banda ni Kleggy, Ajka, PLUS more SURPRISE bands!
BLOW HARDER!
Channel [V] Music Festival Facebook fanpage
Ticket prices: GOLD - PHP50
(There will be no more PHP30 and PHP20 denominations but they will still accept the tickets purchased before.)
Grab your tickets now! Tickets are available at the following selected Astroplus/Astrovision and Odyssey branches:
ASTROPLUS/ASTROVISION
- SM MOA
- SM North
- SM The Block
- SM Makati
- SM Megamall
- SM San Lazaro
- Greenbelt
- Trinoma
- Shangri-la Plaza
ODYSSEY
- Gateway Mall
- Festival Mall Alabang
- Rockwell Powerplant Mall
- Robinsons Place Ermita
- Sta. Lucia East
* You may also buy tickets to the show thru Channel [V] Philippines at vmusicfestival2012@gmail.com or call 0927-2404222.
MYX Mo! | 24 Nov 2011 | 6PM
Marikina Sports Park, Sumulong Highway, Marikina City
Here’s a LINK to FAQ or to the things you’ll need to know about the MYXMO event.
List of confirmed performers for MYX Mo! 2011!
BBS | SPONGE COLA | ITCHYWORMS | TANYA MARKOVA | EBE DANCEL | RICO BLANCO | GENERAL LUNA | SITTI | ROCKSTEDDY | JAYR/CHELO/Q-YORK | CALLALILY | KISS JANE | KAMIKAZEE | SANDWICH | CHICOSCI | WOLFGANG | PUPIL | SOMEDAYDREAM | PEDICAB | GLOC 9 | SLAPSHOCK | MARIE DIGBY | QUEST | OPERA BELLES | MOBBSTARR | 6CYCLEMIND
It will be streaming live on myxph.com on the same day, 4PM Philippine time to experience MYX Mo! 2011
Celebrate Independence Week in Tiendesitas. (June 6 to 9, 2011) Like Them on Facebook.
June 06: Razorback | Rivermaya | Color It Red
June 07: Freestyle | SinoSiKat | Cynthia Alexander
June 08: Sandwich | Barbie Almalbis | Markus Highway
June 09: Juan dela Cruz | Hijo | The Jherks | Maria Cafra | With special participation of Luis Galang
JCI - Manila
Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs
presents
R.A.D.Y.O
Tinig, Awit, Musika, Walang Pana-panahon
A concert for a cause featuring
Side A, True Faith, Sandwich, Noel Cabangon, Aiza Seguerra, Anyo, Julien Drolon, Drizzle with DNA, Top Suzara, Layag, Toto Sorioso and Julianne
Palacio De Manila, Roxas Blvd. | 4 May 2011 | 8pm
All proceeds will be given to COSE (Coalition of Services of the Elderly) and a Home For An Aged in Metro Manila. For more information, please contact Ralph Tan at 09233175421 or Francis Layug at 09178333989.
Like them on Facebook. Email at foracause2011@gmail.com.
Sandwich’s LAKAD is MYX Awards 2011 Favorite Rock Video, directed by Jason Magbanua.
Support Sandwich’s latest album CONTRA TIEMPO, already out in your favorite record stores nationwide. Buy only the original!