AXEAN FESTIVALCO-ORGANIZER
TEAM MEMBER
Mary Christine ‘MC’ Galang
Philippines
- Co-founder and Creative Director of The Rest Is Noise PH
- Head of Editorial, Jaded
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 to the annual Summer Noise and All of the Noise music festivals—which proudly champions music, arts, and culture from Asia and the Asian diaspora.
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 speaker at various music showcases and conferences abroad, including the United States, Spain, France, Mexico, Finland, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Taiwan. Since 2023, she has also been booking and organizing shows for independent and underground Filipino artists overseas.
She is also one of the Co-Founders and Head of Communications of the AXEAN Festival (formerly ASEAN Music Showcase Festival), Southeast Asia’s first intraregional music showcase festival founded in 2020.
In 2023, she was named Head of Editorial at Jaded, a Los Angeles-based multi-platform music company that develops, manages, and promotes emerging Asian artists. She was in charge of curating and programming Jaded’s FRIENDS:FOREVER 2024 at SXSW, which featured over 40 pan-Asian artists. The year before, 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. She is also handling day-to-day management for Korean-Australian alternative hip-hop group, 1300.
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 under Warner Music Group, where she helped build readership to nearly 40,000 views per month and gain over 650,000 combined subscribers on social media in just one year. In 2022, she helped oversee and manage the first-ever Pan-Asian rap cypher series, ‘The Regionals,’ which brought top hip-hop artists from the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam together with Grammy Award-winning producers and hitmakers !llmind, 9th Wonder, and Hit-Boy.
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THE REST IS NOISE PH
The Rest Is Noise PH (TRIN) is a music curator, events production, and online publication based in Manila, Philippines.
Since 2015, TRIN has curated and produced more than 40 shows: ranging from pocket venues to outdoor festival settings. It is home to the annual Summer Noise and All Of The Noise music festivals, which feature critically acclaimed homegrown and international music acts, primarily dedicated to showcasing Asian and Asian diaspora music artists, such as Japanese Breakfast, Phum Viphurit, Elephant Gym, Turnover, Deafheaven, Hitsujibungaku, Last Dinosaurs, Up Dharma Down, Sandwich, and more. These shows highlight the rich and diverse backgrounds, cultures, and styles of music artists from home and abroad, championing both emerging and established music-makers.
In 2020, TRIN co-founded AXEAN Festival (formerly ASEAN Music Showcase Festival), a first-of-its-kind traveling regional showcase festival that aims to put the spotlight on music artists and communities from Southeast Asia—rooted in music discovery, community-based networking, and music industry education—by incorporating structured, artist- and community-centric initiatives including music conference, industry matchmaking/speed meetings, and songwriting camp, resulting to meaningful career opportunities (such as music export) and creative, cultural exchanges.
In 2025, TRIN celebrated its 10th anniversary with All Of The Noise 2025, a diverse, music culture-centric event, including live music performances, music discussions, music documentary screenings, and a music photography exhibit, which was hailed by leading Filipino news site Rappler for its “commitment to addressing social struggles through different lenses in the music industry. Beyond just a celebration, All of the Noise 2025 served as a space for reflection and advocacy, encouraging its audience to see and use the art of music as a tool for change.”
TRIN’s co-founders have worked with global music partners, including Warner Music Asia, Sony Music Philippines, SXSW, HipHopDX Asia, and programmed, collaborated with, and/or participated at numerous music showcase festivals in the United States, France, Spain, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India.
TRIN takes pride in fostering a thriving sense of community, culture, and inclusivity—providing a platform that champions the best of Asian music and strengthening regional and global connections, onstage or in the digital space.