It’s symptomatic of our postmodern world that 1960s Cambodian acid-rock could produce feelings of nostalgia in twentysomething Americans. But Dengue Fever has spent the last seven years banking on ...

During the Vietnam War, American and British pop music was broadcast in Vietnam on the U.S. Armed Forces Radio Network. Those broadcasts reached neighboring Cambodia, as well. And there, the sounds of ...

Drummer Paul Smith was skeptical when his friends, brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, pitched the idea of forming a Los Angeles-based Cambodian pop band. "I basically said 'Good luck with that,' " Smith ...

Eight years ago, keyboardist Ethan Holtzman and his guitarist brother Zac had become so obsessed with Cambodian pop music from the 1960s, they wanted to revolve their band Dengue Fever around the ...

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