AXEAN FESTIVAL
CO-ORGANIZER

• Co-founder and Creative Director of The Rest Is Noise PH, Manila, Philippines
• Editorial Lead, Jaded, Los Angeles, California, USA

MC Galang is the co-founder and creative director of The Rest Is Noise PH (TRIN), a music curator, events production, and online publication based in Manila, Philippines—home of the annual Summer Noise and All of the Noise music festivals—which proudly champions Asian music, arts, and culture. 

She oversees, develops, and curates creative projects and content for The Rest Is Noise’s live events and online platform, from conceptualization to execution. Since 2018, she’s been representing TRIN as a delegate and panelist at various music showcases and conferences abroad, including Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, and Taiwan. Since 2023, she has also been booking and organizing shows for independent and underground Filipino artists overseas.

In addition, she is one of the co-founders of the ASEAN Music Showcase Festival, Southeast Asia’s first intraregional music showcase festival. Her role involves programming and handling press relations, among others.

In 2023, she was named the Editorial Lead of Jaded, a diversified entertainment platform dedicated to Asian youth culture headquartered in Los Angeles. In March 2023, she helped curate the lineup for Tiger Den, the first Pan-Asian showcase at SXSW, which is jointly presented with Seoul-based ‘alternative K-pop group’ Balming Tiger.

As a music writer, she has previously contributed for NME Asia, Bandwagon Philippines, and Purveyr. She was named content and editorial head of HipHopDX Asia, the Asia edition of the American online magazine, HipHopDX from 2021 to 2023, where she helped build readership to nearly 40,000 views per month and gain over 600,000 combined subscribers on social media in just one year. Launched in September 2022, she helped bring the first-ever Pan-Asian rap cypher series, The Regionals, to fruition, bringing top hip-hop artists from the Philippines, Taipei, and Vietnam to collaborate with Grammy Award-winning producers and hitmakers !llmind, 9th Wonder, and Hit-Boy.