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Bang On A Can play Beijing
Museyon Guides
Want proof that your club is hot? How about a surprise show from a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer. That’s just what happened at Beijing’s D-22 (242 Chengfu Lu, Beijing; +86 6265 3177) this Friday night. And it’s just another sign that the city’s up-and-coming music scene is starting to be [...]
SOURCE: Blogs
Interview of Brian Hardgroove from Public Enemy. It includes some mention of his projects in Beijing and working with Demerit.
Watch it here
Beijing’s Top 5 Live Music Venues
By Fred Dintenfass Dec 31, 2008
http://www.echinacities.com/main/news/ExpatsCorner.aspx?n=1359
Beijing’s got clubs. Loads of them. Million dollar venues with expensive sound systems packed with foreigners and wealthy young Chinese drinking expensive bottles of bad whisky. You’ve got your Club Banana, your GT Banana, and your Coco Banana; China Doll and its semi-legitimate child [...]
SOURCE: Blogs
Beijing bands attack Shanghai
Entertainment
Written by Berwin
Tuesday, 30 December 2008 17:17
At a mere year-and-a-half on the market, Beijing indie label Maybe Mars has become the most compelling label in China. Backed by the crew at Beijing’s D-22 music club – which has been called (affectionately, of course) a “hardcore music dive bar” or the “CBGB of [...]
SOURCE: Blogs
What I’ll miss about Beijing
Geoffrey York, 16/12/08 at 8:48 AM EST
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/yorkblog
BEIJING — As I prepare for a new foreign assignment, it’s time to mention a few of the things that I’ll badly miss about Beijing. In almost seven years of working here, I’ve come to see Beijing as one of the world’s great metropolises, even [...]
SOURCE: Globe & Mail
http://www.smartshanghai.com/blog/1146/Mp3_Monday_Ourself_Beside_Me.html
Em Pea Sans from our nation’s vibrant capital - By Morgan, Dec 08, 08
MP3 Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column, serving up mp3s from bands living and making music in China (or coming to China, or thinking about coming to China, or whatever). Right click on the links and choose “Save Link As…” to download [...]
SOURCE: SmartShanghai
Classical music is sometimes the grandest of art forms, sometimes the most shiveringly intimate. Although the deepening economic crisis may mean that we won’t see too many more spectacles on the order of Stockhausen’s three-orchestra “Gruppen,” in Berlin, or the high-tech pandemonium of “Die Soldaten,” at the Park Avenue Armory, other highlights of my concertgoing [...]
SOURCE: New Yorker
Playlist - 6th December 2008
Audio
Sulumi – God save the 8Bit – Bedzoo Records
Arrows Made of Desire – Missing out – Tag Team Records
New Pants – Golden idol – Modern Sky
White - 47 Rockets for Wan Hu – Maybe Noise
CarSickCars – Xiong Mao (Panda) – Maybe Mars
PK14 – Northern Spiritual – Maybe Mars
RandomK(e) – Speed devil [...]
SOURCE: BBC
D-22, PK 14, Carsick Cars, Ourself Beside Be and Michael Pettis in Dazed & Confused.
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SOURCE: Dazed & Confused
PK 14
by Lara Day
P.K. 14’s thrashing chords, dark bass lines and frenetic beats resonate with echoes of Sonic Youth, the Pixies, Fugazi and the New York Dolls. But the Beijing band’s charismatic vocalist, Yang Haisong, 34, says he takes his lead from songwriters such as “Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs and a whole generation [...]
SOURCE: Time
