Filipino Music - something I know nothing about

I spent a better part of this afternoon checking out the Top 20 videos from the P.I. on JocTV. I do not really know anything about the Pinoy music scene so I thought I would check out what was going on over in the P.I.  Most of the stuff was the sort of ballad music that I remember when I was a kid.  But there were a couple of interesting bands or just videos that I kind of thought were ok. 

I like the Sandwich video because (1) they are called Sandwich and it's a song about DVDs.  It's also the one that actually had the most production involved from the looks of the video.  There's another band called Mayonnaise, which I thought was weird but hey...sandwich, mayonnaise..whatever.

The Imago video for Taralets is just fun. It's pretty poppy and cute.  I want to go ride some go-carts now.

And I just kind of liked Rivermaya.  I don't know, I will have to check out more of their stuff. It was a pretty good song.

Unfortunately, nothing really popped out at me. A lot of bands were trying to be other bands, like Incubus or P.O.D. or something.  I know, I am a music snob and that bands are all influenced by other bands but when it is really really obvious I kind of just get turned off.

Anyway, this hunt for Filipino music started when I was reading this guy, Mat's, travel journal. He's in Singapore and he saw a band called Kjwan from the P.I. that's supposed to be rock/funk.  I thought I'd give it a listen and it just went off from there.  Anyway, if you know any Filipino bands I should check out, let me know.