Mass Consuption is here folks.. it’s alive and well in Beijing China and what better proof than these pictures? What you’re looking at is the lines ahead of the iPhone 4S launch tomorrow at the Xidan Apple Store in Beijing. THere are literally thousands of people waiting to get their hands on Apple’s latest baby [...]
Tags: iphone 4S, iphone Beijing
So the web is abuzz Baidu’s new music service, Ting. For those that haven’t heard, the search engine giant has reached an agreement with a consortium made up of Sony, Universal and Time Warner to let users legally stream and download songs within China. It’s a positive development from Baidu and a giant step towards [...]
Tags: baidu Ting, google music
I don’t think Danwei need any introduction to most expats in China. The site has been around for quite sometime, predating most blogs and expat rags, reporting on happenings in China. Time have changed apparently with Jeremy Goldkorn and company going for a different direction/format. Last week, the new Danwei was launched, as a web [...]
Tags: danwei, jeremy goldkorn, jonah kessel, traditional chinese instruments
man the times have changed!!! A few years ago, China was considered cultural wasteland as far as foreign literature went! heck, it was difficult enough to buy foreign books, much less have an opportunity to sit down with authors and discuss their inspiration/work/whatever… My oh my!! we’ve come a long way. The Bookworm literary festival [...]
Tags: Capital M, literary festival, marjorie liu
I’m not much of a gamer but this is just uber cool!!! a Man reportedly payed about 5000 Euros to play 10mn of the RPG game on the gigantic 250 meters long, 30 meters wide LCD screen. The damn thing covers an area of 7500 square meters! Check out this video on Youku: How cool [...]
Tags: geek matters, the place, video games
Yup, it’s finally here, officially! The iphone 4 will be legally available for purchase in Beijing and all over china presumable of September 25th as reported here and here. With the official price at about CNY4999 for the base model, I would say it’s a relatively good reasonable deal as long as it is SIM [...]
Tags: apple Beijing, Apple China, iphone 4, iphone 5
A little diversion from music and food unto my other guilty pleasure: Apple! So, it’s official and Apple put it on their website: The iPad is gonna be launched in Beijing officially this Friday September 17th. The official starting price is RMB3988… great… or is it? A quick stroll over to Zhongguancun shows that there [...]
Tags: apple, Beijing iPad price, iPad price
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever
