An interesting piece of reading is making the rounds in the Chinese web right now, with many musicians chiming in and sharing their opinions. It’s courtesy of Song Ke, one of the more influential figures in the Chinese pop music industry with a career that includes time at Warner Music, managing Linkin Park‘s digital rights [...]
Tags: Chinese Music Industry, Digital Distribution in China, Song Ke
An Interesting development by the good guys over at Rock in China was announced today: They’re working on putting together a compilation showcasing various ‘Core bands around the mainland and the rest of the country: Here’s what they had to say about it: The CORE IN CHINA compilation project is a non-commercial promotional compilation record [...]
Tags: Compilations, metalcore, nintendocore, Rock in China
If you’ve been to 2 Kolegas before, you’ll know things don’t really start happening out at the drive–in before around 10.30ish. And if you’d turned up around that time last Saturday you would have seen a great show from Sparrow, DH & the Hellcats and The K that stretched on until the early hours of [...]
We talk a lot about bands breaking up, artists starting new projects, new albums, etc… all the news from the music scene! What we don’t bring up often enough is the people that keep us informed about the music scene and how important/influential they can be. We also rarely take the time to thank them, [...]
Tags: Michelle Dai, Music Editor, The Beijinger
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
it started with a bang at 2 Kolegas as Buyi, Nucleus, Rustic and Subs rocked the hell out of the drive-in. That was one hell of a good show to start the year and remains in the top ten of best shows in Beijing for 2011. Many bands came, some vanished, others just took a [...]
Tags: abaji, AK 47, Bad Mamasan, best of 2011, Bigger Bang, Black Snakes, Chunqiu, concrete blonde, da bang, dazeFEAST, Hanggai, la pegatina, Last Choice, Out of Control, SUBS, thin man
It’s probably been one of the worst kept secrets of the music industry in Beijing over the past 2 months but i guess it’s time to let the cat out of the bag: D-22 is set to shut down! The writing has been on the wall for a while with the place really being a [...]
Tags: D-22
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