Members: Nikki Cuna on drums, Levi Reyes on bass, Noodle Perez on guitars and lead vocals, and Pat Garcia on guitars.

Sounds like: Don’t let them feminine reputation fool you, their music is a kick-ass concoction of alterative rock, punk and metal laced with pop melodies.

From Kalayaan College in Quezon City comes this all-female group. The band found its name in a Biology book. Nyctinasty is defined as “plant movement in response to darkness.” Their upcoming debut indie release will be under Lighter Records (home to Cebu based-acts such as The Ambassadors, Point Click Kill, Faspitch and Urbandub).

Noodle and Pat originally formed a band with two male ex-bandmates. The guys eventually eased themselves out of the group that left the two girls searching for new bandmates. They eventually found Nikki and Levi through common friends.
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Radiohead made a bold move by offering its latest album, In Rainbows, as a name-your-ownprice digital download, eschewing a record label entirely. According to ComScore, which tracks digital sales, 1.2 million people downloaded the album in October. Of these people, roughly 60 percent chose “free” as their price. The remainder paid an average of $8 in the United States, $6 worldwide. Yet, despite most users getting the album for free (and at least another 500,000 people pirating it, even though it could be had gratis from the official site), Radiohead is looking to make a tidy sum: Without a label, the band gets a much bigger slice of the pie. But is it enough? Radiohead’s popularity and the tremendous publicity the release garnered no doubt boosted sales. Whether choose-your-own-price is a viable option for smaller bands, or even another Radiohead release, remains to be seen.