Rock and roll’s spread across Southeast Asia in the decades after its global emergence created a vast network of local scenes that reimagined the genre’s core structures to speak to the specific realities, joys, and longings of communities that claimed the sound as their own, and nowhere is that reclamation more vivid than in the Philippines, where generations of creators have expanded rock and roll’s boundaries to hold both the unruly energy that defines the genre at its core and the nuanced layers of cultural identity that shape every work to come out of the archipelago’s vibrant creative circuit.