Category Archives: Music

Bjork: Raise your flag? Declare independence? “Tibet…Tibet”

Iceland’s art rock princess, Bjork Iceland’s avant-garde art-rock songstress, Bjork, performed to a sold-out crowd last night at the Shanghai International Gymnastic Center; her first-ever show in Shanghai – she performed once before in Beijing, circa 1996. Never ceasing to … Continue reading →

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The flag never lowers on the American empire

The Star-Spangled Banner (星条旗歌) vs The Stars and Stripes Forever (星条旗永不落).

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Beijing subway jam music video

A music video shot on the Beijing subway.

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P.K. 14 chosen as one of Time’s best Asian bands

Time magazine has chosen Asia’s five best bands, or rather five acts to watch in 2008. The band from China is Beijing-based P.K. 14: P.K. 14’s thrashing chords, dark bass lines and frenetic beats resonate with echoes of Sonic Youth, … Continue reading →

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Inside the music business in China
by Ed Peto

Ed Peto writes about the money-losing music market in China.

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by Ed Peto

Talib Kweli in Shanghai and Beijing

Video highlights of Yue music festival 2007.

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Painkiller: China’s Heavy Metal Magazine

A profile of heavy metal mag Painkiller and its editor.

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Soundscapes of Memory: ethnomusicology in China

Peter Micic writes about musicologists’ fieldwork in China.

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Yi and Wa minority music from Yunnan

This video by Kris Ariel at GoKunming.com show performers from the Yunnan Yuansheng Indigenous Music and Dance Studio.

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Super sounds of the seventies

Yang Lang (杨浪) writes about Chinese popular music in 1977.

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