Nightlife

BANGKOK — In the late 1960s, the Joshua Light Show put on elaborate liquid light stage shows to take audiences on brain-twisting psychedelic journeys. It was done using overhead projectors, color wheels and vats of colored liquid. Since then, concert visuals have given way to towering LED screens and computer-generated images.

he two-page spread shows gorecore dead bodies. Flip. Semi-nude models cower on the next page. Flip. Another page turn returns to violent carnage.

Imagine a Mötorhead and Beach Boys collab and you might get “Dirty Water,” a track that convinces you it’s a soft beach-rock groove right before aggressive guitar riffs take it over halfway through.

BANGKOK — Festival fiends who either missed Wonderfruit or didn’t get enough of the art and music festival can look forward to Dudesweet’s redefinition of the festival from another perspective this coming weekend for wanderers to live, love and … whatever.

As a young lad in the ‘80s attending a Catholic school, one of my favorite pastimes was lunchtime, carving upside-down crosses into church doors while humming The Sex Pistols’ “Anarchy in the UK.” Needless to say, I was heavily into punk and metal in my rebellious junior high school years.

PATTAYA - The owners of businesses in Pattaya are happy about the change in nightlife venues' closing times to 4 a.m. The new regulation will...

Natapol, better known as DJ Maft Sai, is a Bangkok music geek making a big effort to preserve Thai music.

BANGKOK — From the Steel City to the Big Mango comes a punk quartet with a politically charged message at an interesting time.

BANGKOK — For those who live and breathe Latin dance, swaying one’s way through the week in Bangkok’s salsa hubs can be a reality.

BANGKOK — In the wake of His Majesty King Bhumibol’s death Oct. 13, the authorities have called for 30 days without entertainment.