I came to get hurt.
Might as well do your worst to me.


A cover of The Gaslight Anthem's 'Get Hurt' from their 2014 album.

All instruments recorded by yours truly.
Recorded in Mixcraft 6
Drums by EZDrummer
Guitar FX by Guitar Rig 5

Get Hurt (The Gaslight Anthem Cover)

Kevin Evangelista on B.o.B.'s rap parts
Reindrops on Bruno Mars' singing parts

A cover of B.o.B and Bruno Mars' single, 'Nothin On You', from B.o.B's 2010 album, 'B.o.B. Presents: The Adventures of Bobby Ray'

All instruments recorded by yours truly.
Featuring my very good friend Reinielle Basilio.
Recorded in Mixcraft 6
Drums by EZDrummer
Guitar FX by Guitar Rig 5

Nothin' On You feat. Reindrops (Bruno Mars and B.o.b. Cover)

Doing tracks in Maginoo now.

This is a cover of The Horrible Crowes' single 'Behold The Hurricane' from their debut album, 'Elsie'.

I don't recognize myself,
I'm not the man you loved.
Behold the hurricane.

All instruments recorded by yours truly.
Recorded in Mixcraft 7
Drums by EZDrummer 2
Guitar FX by Guitar Rig 5

Behold The Hurricane (The Horrible Crowes Cover)

Now I'm here at Maginoo again, I no longer have the crazy long travel home that's 3 hours long and leaves me too tired to work on shit I'm interested in when I get home. Now, I've got insane amounts of energy even after work, so I pour it all on my music and my writing. And since only the former will be released to the public, I'm constantly studying and working on how to make my music recordings sound better. I'm only doing covers for now, but as soon as I get the hang of making all these music hardware and software shits work, I'll be recording originals again. I've still got a lot of finished stuff from The Streetside Entertainment EP that won't hold up to my new standards, so it looks like I'll have to record everything again. Along with newer stuff.

This track I heard from the Test Drive Unlimited 2 Soundtrack. I liked it, kept it on backlog, now I've finished it.

All instruments recorded by yours truly.
Recorded in Mixcraft 7
Guitar FX by Guitar Rig 5

Hanging High (Last Days of April Cover)

So Kevin made this after pestering me for months since he hasn't recorded anything for a while. We both love Barbie because she cool. And people used to keep telling me I looked like her when I was in high school. So yay Barbie Almalbis tribute! (excuse my vibrato) -Jo

Yeah! I'm back, and I have a really good singer with me! I'm going to be finishing most recordings I started but never got around to finishing, so look out for that! -Kebs

Torpe (feat. Jo Briones)

It's me and Jo again, working on songs.
 
This one is pretty special to me.
 
I first heard 'Dream Systems' by the Purplechickens way back high school days. I'm not sure if I saw the music video on TV, or on YouTube, but I remember feeling a connection to the song. It tugged at something in me.

Early college, I was able to watch the Purplechickens perform live. I was new to the city. I didn't have much in the way of money, so I was never able to buy the album that had 'Dream Systems' in it. But that was okay. It was enough for me just to see them play Dream Systems live. After all, I can just go on YouTube and watch the MV if I wanted to.
 
Ever since I learned how to record music at home, I've always planned on making a cover of this song. But it scared me. What if I butcher it? Can I even get close? See, this means so much to me. And I don't want to do it if I know I can't pour my everything into it.
 
So with a ton of help and encouragement from Jo, I finally made it. A cover that I can be proud of.
 
This song has gotten me through some tough times.

To the Purplechickens, thank you.
 
Thank you so much.

Dream Systems - Single

Dream Systems (feat. Jo Briones)

Hello guys! I had time to make music again, so here it is. I based this track off a remix I heard from youtube a long time ago. There seems to be an abundance of John Mayer X rapper mashups on YouTube. There was a memorable remix of John Mayer's "Back to You" and Tupac's "Do for Love", among others.

So this is the first piece of music I've done since I started officially taking my YouTube channel seriously, and I hope this is just the start of me regularly putting out music again.

Because of that, this song is also on my YouTube channel, at bit.ly/kevinevangelista. It's one of the things I wanted to do for so long, and now its growing, I can't be happier.

Thank you to everyone who listens to my music, and I appreciate every like, share, and subscribe/follow. There's always more to come, and I promise, every release will always be better than the last. 'til the next track!

-K

Album cover made with Adobe After Effects and Element 3D V2.2
All instruments recorded at home

Dreaming With A Broken Heart X When I'm Gone

Ewan Ko (Soapdish Cover)

Here's something a little more direct. I first heard this from way back when I was (loosely) watching Roswell. This song was used in one of the scenes with Max and Liz, and I liked the vibe so much. Too bad that Shazam didn't exist at the time, so I just hung on to the "all this time spent time on spending time with you" chorus.  Found out about LDOA, then called it a day.
 
Fast forward a few years later, I got Test Drive Unlimited 2 for PC, and I heard LDOA again on the game's soundtrack. 'Hanging high' instantly became one of my most-played tracks, and I eventually covered it.
 
So yeah, here's probably the last LDOA song I'll cover. I love the band, and I had a ton of fun recording this song (especially the outro). I hope you guys like it too.
 
All tracks done by yours truly.
Recorded in Mixcraft Pro Studio 8.
Single art made in Adobe After Effects CC2018.

-K

All Will Break (Last Days of April Cover)

An Everything Everything cover. One of my most favorite bands of all time.

This was supposed to be posted months ago, but was constantly delayed by a combination of me getting sick and travelling because of work.
 
But now here it is, one of the heaviest tracks I've worked on; both on the vocal side and the guitar side.
 
I'm clearing out my backlog for music production, so expect more songs to come!

All instruments recorded at home.
Additional background vocals by Jo Briones.
Art made in Adobe After Effects.

-K

Suffragette Suffragette - Single

Suffragette Suffragette (feat. Jo Briones)

Another cover from Sondre Lerche. God I love the Dan in Real Life OST.

-K

My Hands Are Shaking (Sondre Lerche Cover)

Happiest recording so far. :)) First heard this from the How I Met Your Mother Soundtrack.

Commit (The Blakes Cover)

First heard this tune from Japy and Deo back in our first year days. it never left my iPod since then. I use this as a soundtrack when I walk like a fucking boss down the street. -K

The Little Things (Danny Elfman Cover)

Happy 2019, everyone!
 
Here's some new music. I wanted to celebrate James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin's return to SP, so I made a more energetic take on their latest single.
 
Hope you guys like it!

Everything recorded by yours truly.

Silvery Sometimes (Ghosts) - (The Smashing Pumpkins Cover)

All made in one weekend. I found myself with an abundance of free time, and since I don't really leave the house that much, decided to make this song for my friend Jo Galang.
 
We're close friends, we lived in the same apartment back in college, and we did jams of songs like these all throughout our stay in Quezon City. He lives and Japan now, and this is like a little something to tell him that I miss those jams. Kind of gives the beginning lyrics of the song a little personal touch for me.

I'm flying to Osaka in April to see him, his wife, and his newborn daughter! Can't wait.
 
All instruments recorded by yours truly.

Syndicate - Single

Syndicate (The Fray cover)

The Philippines is in lockdown. Everyone is in home quarantine to fight the spread of COVID-19.
 
And since that afforded me the time, I finished BoJack Horseman S6-- something that I wanted to do, but wasn't able to during regular operations.
 
When I was done with BoJack Horseman, it felt like parting with a close friend that I didn't entirely like, but was true enough to me that I couldn't be mad at them. BJH made me brutally confront my adult problems. It made me answer questions that I wasn't ready to ask myself, but gave me the vocabulary to actually process them.
 
In the end, it felt kind of bad to have gone through it, but it feels good that I got out alive. And I feel a bit of a better person for having watched the show.

So here's a song from the series. It's my little way of honoring the show.
 
BoJack Horseman is over and everything feels a bit better now.
 
Original song by Doc Robinson.
All instruments recorded by yours truly.
Recorded in Acoustica Mixcraft Pro Studio 8.
Guitar FX by Native Instruments Guitar Rig 5.
Drums by EZDrummer 2.
Maguinoo Music 2020.

Break My Fall - Single

Break My Fall (A Doc Robinson Cover)

Hello, I am Kevin Evangelista.

I am the guitarist of Manila Vanilla, Handwritten by Ivy, and The Enders. 

I do my own tracks, and I mostly cover songs that mean something to me.

Kevin Evangelista

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