Category Archives: Music

Neocha.com: Tomorrow’s Afternoon Tea

An album from Neocha’s netlabel that brings together ten original tracks from independent Chinese bands and solo acts with female vocalists, all of whom are Neocha.com users.

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Rich painters and poor rock stars

Painting is more lucrative than rock music, says the New Weekly.

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The real Beijing

TA rough translation of the lyrics of ‘Beijing Evening News’

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Baidu plots to divide and conquer music industry

An article about Baidu and its strategy to conquer the music industry.

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Music Shorts – Banana Monkey

A performance by Banana Monkey, an up and coming indie / garage rock band from Shanghai.

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Funky Chinatown and the Asian riff

All about the ‘Asian riff’, a melodic phrase that has represents the mysteries of the Far East in the language of Western pop music.

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Power of Love, by Lin Di (林笛)

While attending last night’s candlelight vigil in Shanghai at People’s Square, the lead singer and pipa player from the well-known Chinese band Cold Fairyland, Lin Di (林笛), shot the video below. Lin Di stayed up all night to not only … Continue reading

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I don’t watch CCTV

A punk song titled ‘I don’t watch CCTV’.

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MIDI music festival cancelled?

MIDI music festival canceled.

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Free Chinese music to your desktop

Chinese innovation: NEXT Neocha.com is a networking website for Chinese musicians, designers, photographers, artists and filmmakers, etc. They have just launched a new feature called NEXT. NEXT plays songs from Neocha.com’s library of user-uploaded music, from within a web browser, … Continue reading

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