THE LARGEST DIGITAL DIY FESTIVAL IN MALAYSIA! Greetings! Here are the new dates for Indie Youth Fest season 2009! For those of you who have signed up for Indie Youth Fest gig on 1 & 2 August, fret not as it's still going on at 1 Utama Rainforest on the lower ground floor location. So be seeing you there! CALENDAR OF EVENTS Press conference 13 July 2009 (tentative) Season kickstart @ Selangor Road Show 1 & 2 August 2009 at 1 Utama Rainforest Penang Road Show Aug 2009 Johor Bahru Road Show Sept 2009 Kuching Road Show Sept 2009 Indie Youth Fest 2009 14 to 18 October 2009 1 Utama in 2 locations: High Street (Digital Zone) & Rainforest ( Indie Zone) Participation @ International Festival 27-30 Nov 2009 SEASON KICKSTART: SELANGOR ROAD SHOW Date: Sat, 1st & Sun, 2nd August 2009 Venue: 1 Utama Shopping Centre, Rainforest, Lower Ground Floor Entry Fee: Free Activities: Beatbox S howcase Go International E-sport Cup Qualifier kickstart Indie Rock Gig Acoustic Singer Songw

Hey hey all you beatboxers out there! Here's a special announcement. Doppelganger will be working together with SRB (Sound Rhythm Beatbox) to produce what we believe is the FIRST BEATBOXING CHALLENGE in MALAYSIA! Thanks to an idea that was presented to us at Doppelganger Open Mic Open Stage by a person by the name of MEGAT (SALLEH) - and gosh we were confused as we had 3 MEGATS on our books!!! Nice to have cleared that up! Anyhoo... check out this video call-out. How do you participate? It's easy as 1-2-3! 1. View the video call-out 2. Respond to MEGAT (SALLEH)'s video on www.youtube.com. 3. Wait up and we'll shortlist and send you an official invite to the Grand Finals, to be held at 1 Utama Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur on 17 & 18 October 2009. Remember, there are many events as a part of the Indie Youth Fest season 2009/10! And our theme this year is DIGITAL DELIRIUM! Tagline? It's where we celebrate digital DIY culture! So don't get confused. Judges &a

Hi! Welcome to Doppelganger's Indie Pick of the mid month. Btw, if you know of anyone and would like to recommend it to us, email openmickl@ gmail.com and we'll check it out. For today, check this out! Malaysia Artist: New York, via Malaysia Shayna Zaid myspace.com/shaynazaid Bio: ~ Skope Magazine's 'Artists to Watch', Spring 2009 ~ Fox's Fearless Music 'Top Artist' web feature, February 2009 ~ 1st place in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition - Performance Category ~ Sonicbids's 'Band Spotlight' for December 2008 ~ 8 Songs featured on CBS's 'The Young & The Restless' 2008 ~ 4 number 1 singles on Malaysian Radio in 3 separate formats 2007 ~ 3 Era Award nominations (Malaysia) - 'Best New Artist', 'Best Female Vocalist' & 'Best Pop Song' 2007 Russia Artist: Peter Nalitch www.peternalitch.ru Bio: Russia’s latest YouTube sensation sounds like a Balkan Gipsy Kings version of Borat. Why sounds?

Update 21 June 2009: View delayed telecast of FREE ROCK CONCERT at www.rockaway2009.com . Or, view pictures from our gallery . To all who attended last night, your energy was amazing! To all who visited Doppelganger's booth, see you at our next gig! SMS NOW AND STAND A CHANCE TO WIN! FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT WWW.ROCKAWAY2009.COM Rahul on the set of The Breakfast Show, NTV7 on 17 Jun 09 Azmyl Yunor & no, that's NOT the sigaretta, it's Jaz :)) Here's more promos on ROCKAWAY - NTV7 on The Breakfast Show! Thanks to TBS for the plug. So this morning, we headed to Media Prima with the guys Rahul and Sen from OBS for the interview. And guess who we bumped into?! Azmyl Yunor sans The Sigarettes, promoting DISKO PAPAN on 27 June 09. Read all about what Star journalist (who's also guitarist/vocalist with band, Cats in Love ) N. Rama Lohan reports on Rockaway in Star Two . Personally, I felt it and disagree. How about you? Leave a comment lar... http://star-ecentral.com/

Clockwise: Doppelganger's FLASH GIGS @ URBAN ATTIC on 18 June featured four headliners: Rashdan Harith, Fuckcoustics, Dzamira (not pictured) and Lightcraft (not pictured). Then we invited Open Mickers - George Wong (not pictured), Ariff, Jens Momin, Psytrus (not pictured) to play some more. Venue partner Getting to Capsquare Introducing the Doppelganger Open Mic 'flash gig' series. Promoter of grassroots acts in the Klang Valley, Doppelganger KL will organise a gig at Urban Attic KL, CapSquare on Thursday, 18 June 2009. This precedes Rockaway 2009 - slated to be one of the largest FREE rock concerts in the country two days later on 20 June 2009 at Capsquare where over 15 bands will take centrestage. For those of you who've not had a chance to simply 'rock up and perform' at our DOPPELGANGER OPEN MIC slot, you can do that from midnight onwards. Just step up and we'd love to listen to you. Each brave new act will have 4 minutes and with audience encouragement

((( w00t ))) Doppelganger heads down under in Sept 09!!! Sydney, Australia welcomes Doppelganger Tumbalong Park, Darling Harbour Psssst.... yeah. We're pleased to announce that Doppelganger has confirmed a couple of indie acts to head to Sydney, Australia for Malaysia Fest on 27 September 2009. More details later. But first... check out the stage where they'll be playing at. Oh, btw, Sydney is where Doppelganger was conceived :P

Hi! Welcome again to our new regular segment. This June, we're pleased to present you another two of our favourite indie acts. If you know of anyone and would like to recommend it to us, email openmickl [at] gmail [dot] com and we'll check it out. Here's our selection this month: Malaysia Artist: Phlox amp.channelv.com/phlox myspace.com/phloxtheband Hakim contacted us a few weeks back, asking us to check out their stuff as they wanted to be listed to play at Indie Youth Fest. After listening to his stuff, and also getting a nod from Peter Hassan Brown about their music, we're pretty convinced these guys are THE FIND of the month! Play on! And come watch them play at Indie Youth Fest! ::::::::: Australia Artist: Melanie Horsnell http://melaniehorsnell.com <a href="http://melaniehorsnell.bandcamp.com/track/hands-off-my-lover"&amp

After the NTV7 interview the other day with Alarice, we 'popped' by Flyfm and said hello to Hunny Madu! Catch Alarice on Flyfm 95.8 on Sunday, 7 June 2009 from 7pm YO! This was our old header. I miss it sometimes. But gotta say goodbye. And welcome our new header. Hope you guys like it! www.jojostruys.com Here's something a little different from what we've featured before. I got a call today from a friend, Jojo and she's been busy updating her blog. Check it out! I've been asking her to read her poetry at our gigs a couple of times already and it's just a matter of time i guess before she actually accepts! She's got amazing written stuff. I sure hope to hear her perform one day at our gig.

News updates: Listen to ALARICE on FlyFM 95.8fm on 7th June @ 7pm in an interview with the illustrious DJ, Hunny Madu! It was a fun surprise visit to the FlyFM studios yesterday! So anyhoo, add FlyFM to your Facebook! A shoutout to the NTV7 crew, Sariah and Daphne Iking! Thanks for supporting the scene! Hey hey! Here's ALARICE taking Malaysia by storm :) Meet her IN PERSON at No Black Tie tonight 9pm And here's the rest of the singer songwriters from another 'happening' event, ACOUSTIC SHOWDOWN @ Urban Attic. Wave hello to George Wong! Good luck, Darren (Army of Three) & George :)