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Here's our featured Artist of the Month for October: MELISSA POLINAR!

That's So Pinoy was able to interview the very talented Melissa Polinar at her first "Unplugged" solo Bay Area show. We asked her about her music, beginnings, influences, future EP and more! Check out the video to watch what she said! Special thanks to Christina Luna and The Luna Co Team for inviting us to Melissa's Unplugged show! 

-That's So Pinoy Staff

That's So Pinoy's September Artist/Person of the Month

Interview with Olympic Bronze Medalist JR Celski!

The That's So Pinoy got a chance to sit down and talk to 2 time Olympic Bronze medalist JR Celski when he was in San Francisco. We asked him a few questions about his new project called MADNW, his future plans with the company, school and the Olympics. Watch the interview to find out what JR had to say.

Note: Special thanks to JR Celski for taking time to meet up with the That's So Pinoy crew to film this short interview when he was in town. Special shout out to Andrew Rose and his company Square Marden.

Check out MADNorthwest at:

http://madnw.org

(www.MadNorthwest.com launching soon)

Follow them at:

http://twitter.com/madnw

-That's So Pinoy Staff

That's So Pinoy proudly presents our

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: STEFAN SANCHEZ!

We had a great time interviewing Stefan Sanchez. We had our chance to learn about this very down to earth and talented musician, now it's your turn to learn more about him through this interview. To learn even more about Stefan, check out his biography on our site by CLICKING HERE.

Watch the music video for his original song "SF State Girl" produced by Hi and Bye Productions!

-That's So Pinoy! staff

That's So Pinoy proudly presents our

ARTIST IS OF THE MONTH: APRIL CHASE!

For June, we present to you this local San Jose Indie-Rock band called April Chase. We had the opportunity to see them perform at this years Youtube Concert in Piedmont Hills High School last May 28th, 2010! Here's our videos of our exclusive interview, our game of Rapid Fire and some bloopers!

That's So Pinoy! Exclusive Interview Part 1. Introduction of members, story behind their group name, background about the group, musical influences/inspirations and more!

That's So Pinoy! Exclusive Interview Part 2. They talk about SJ Battle of the Bands, Vans Warped Tour, who they want to collaborate with, future plans for the group, & more!

Rapid Fire: APRIL CHASE EDITION. A fun game we played with them. Basically a game of word association.

Bloopers: Here are some bloopers of April Chase attempting to make a introduction video for our website.

Songs:

TIme Won't Tell (Acoustic) - April Chase

Turn It Down - April Chase

If We Ever Meet Again - Timbaland feat. Katy Perry

Coffee and Snow - Blue Scholars

CHECK THEM OUT ON OUR WEBSITE! Go to "The Pinoy Talent", then "Pinoys in Music", they are listed under "GROUPS".

Check out some videos of their live performance from the Youtube Concert in Piedmont Hills High School on our Youtube Page: CLICK HERE!

Thank you to April Chase for giving us the opportunity to interview them and for getting us on the guestlist for this year's Youtube Concert in SJ. Also, thanks to Archiell and Camille for helping out with our interview!

Enjoy!

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That's So Pinoy presents our first

ARTIST OF THE MONTH: VERBAL TAKTIKS

Here's an exclusive Q&A session about the group, their latest project "Coffee House Chronicles" and a gag reel for bloopers and outtakes.

That's So Pinoy! Exclusive Interview with Verbal Taktiks

Get to know Verbal Taktiks: Q&A session with Slant and Vizual Identity

We got a chance to hang out with the guys of Verbal Taktiks on May 8 indowntown SF. Unfortunately Druken was unable to make it because ofprior engagements he made that day but Slant and ID agreed to meet upwith us. We asked them a few simple questions to get to know more aboutthem as a group.

Note: This was our 1st real interview, please excuse the amateur editing and overall outcome. We had a lot of fun getting to know the guys of VT. Yes, we did get kicked out of our first location so we had to cut the first part short.

That's So Pinoy! Exclusive Interview with Verbal Taktiks

Get to know Verbal Taktiks: Coffee House Chronicles In-Depth

We asked Slant and ID some questions to learnmore about their latest project with Verbal Taktiks called "CoffeeHouse Chronicles: The Morning Brew Books 1-7". Also included are someinfo about the upcoming follow ups for Coffee House andbehind-the-scene unscripted footage about the project.

BLOOPERS!

*If you don't the get the "I miss you like crazy" reference, click the external link on the lower left area of the video to find out what we're talking about.

Check out Verbal Taktiks at

Our site: http://www.thatssopinoy.com/groups.htm

Download Coffee House Chronicles at: http://verbaltaktiks.bandcamp.com

Follow them on http://twitter.com/verbaltaktiks

Songs:

Fresh - Verbal Taktiks

Icees - Verbal Taktiks

Java City - Verbal  Taktiks

Fire for the People - Blue Scholars

Miss You Like Crazy - Erik Santos

Cricket Sound Effect

Videos:

Raw Clip/Videos by Stephanie Kofu

Edited by Anne Ong

Special Thanks:

Thanksto Slant and ID for coming through and hanging out with the TSP Team inSF that day. We had A LOT of fun! Also thanks to Natalie and Stephanie,our new TSP Core Team Members for helping out with this interview.

Enjoy,

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