Tag Archives: music

MIDI music festival cancelled?

MIDI music festival canceled.

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Hip hop user generated propaganda

Already a hit on Sina.com, this user generated hip hop propaganda video is now on Youtube.

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Jay Chou and Assembly

A new blog by the Wall Street Journal.

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Women Make Noise

A video profile to two female rock musicians in Beijing.

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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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The Wandering Songstress

This is a clip from the 1937 film Street Angel featuring Zhou Xuan, the singer and actress who embodied pre-revolutionary Shanghai glamor. She sings ‘The Wandering Songstress’.

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Theater, business and wading into the sea
by Peter Micic

The history of his new article two Chinese words that started as Qing dynasty actors slang and became buzzwords of the Chinese business elite.

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by Peter Micic

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