A couple of months ago, the team behind Rock in China wiki and good ‘daze friends set out to collect samplers from all around China to get a feel for what was happening in the ‘core side of things… by ‘core they meant hardcore, nintendocore and all kinds of other terms i’d never heard off. [...]
Tags: core in china, Free Music, hardcore in china, King Lychee, Rock in China
For all the Post-Rock fans out there (BD, you’re excluded from this one!) local label 1724 records has put together a great little compilation album featuring 6 of the city’s Post-Rock bands: Illness Sickness, pentatonic, The Grinding Ear, Glow Curve, Sparrow and Hualun. You can grab the download for free, yes, FREE! on their bandcamp [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, grinding ear, hualun, illness sickness, Mao Livehouse, pentatonic, post rock, sparrow
I love music! I love books and I love putting them together, kinda like a soundtrack to a movie! There’s so much music out there though and so many books, how they’re mixed is entirely personal and I’m curious about it. The Bookworm International Literary Festival is around the corner, doing their part to unite [...]
Tags: Bookworm Literary Festival, Luka Lesson, Thomas Broughton, Tim Clare, Win Tickets
Flash back to 2009 when yours truly had a hectic circuit running around Beijing from show to show, the one slotted in the middle featured Voodoo Kungfu and the Folk Orchestra at Mao Livehouse. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the sight of Li Nan perched up above the stage, his body covered in writings, [...]
Tags: Free Music, Gary Temple, Li Nan, voodoo kungfu, Weibo
Something is brewing in Shanghai and I don’t mean the same stuff they’re doing at Great Leap… The music community there seems to be toughening up and finding creative ways to get people involved and get the audiences out to the shows! And that is commendable…. I’ve gone on the record calling Beijing-based bands “lazy” [...]
Tags: Fever Machine, Free Shanghai Music, friend or foe, Pairs, Rainbow Danger Club, Shanghai Music
If you folks remember, back in August, Simple Plan were in Beijing ready to unleash their brand of Pop Punk when their lead singer was diagnosed with a case of “Swollen Vocal Chords”… well, the Canadian punksters are back! They are planning to have another crack at the nation next month however thanks to Street [...]
Tags: Let's Rock Beijing, Simple Plan, Street Hustle Promotions, win stuff
something is brewing down south folks… I’m not sure what it is but there’s definitely some quality coming out of Shanghai that we don’t get to see in Beijing. Don’t get me wrong, we have “some” quality up here but when you look at the quantity, the ratio is pretty dismal. Shanghai is not blessed [...]
Tags: friend or foe, shanghai bands
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