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This Co. rock from down earth

December 20th, 2008 by

The line-up of This Co. began to coalesce in Santiago in 2006 when guitar player and singer Jorge Christie began to write the start of what was to eventually become the band’s debut album The band has an English-influenced dark rock sound, somewhere between Joy Division and The Cure. Read more about “What you have to do to survive as a Chilean indie rock band”, as Carlos Vergara, bass player of the band, said when talking with Layabozi. Hear their early tunes, their new album, and more…

Interview – Fabi’s mischievous Rock & The Rogue Transmission

October 24th, 2008 by

Monday night Logo was very quiet around 11pm. The Rogue Transmission (TRT) was rehearsing somewhere around the French Concession and I was taking a break while waiting for Fabi, TRT’s drummer, to interview him. It was a little less than one year ago when we were talking in the same place I was waiting for [...]

Celebrating The Antidote

September 18th, 2008 by

The last Antidote party  I went was the one during the Olympics at Captain Bar, those days Shanghai was very much like a ghost town, if possible. I went with a friend who was happily impressed with the environment. Even he’s not much into electronic music he did thank the music, the space and the [...]

Made in Shanghai, The Dovetail Joints.

September 11th, 2008 by

I received the news about the Music Festival organized by the Melting Pot and the next thing I knew I was having the coolest music IM chat with Becca Smith. I’m still wondering how we didn’t meet before. Usually, I don’t find girls to share the rock-hippie thing I believe I carry in my DNA. [...]

Alec Haavik Friction Five “Ye Shanghai” Release

July 21st, 2008 by

Just coming out of the oven, the new and first cd of Alec Haavik Friction Five (who are still are first Featured Artist) is going to be released this next Thursday, July 24th. This is the invitation: Alec Haavik Friction Five’s  first CD!!!! named “Ye Shanghai”, for our famous hip-hop / ska / surf-rock version [...]

Alec Haavik Friction Five – Featured Artist June 2008

June 4th, 2008 by

When thinking about who to choose for our first Featured Artist, of course we thought about Alec. For a minute I thought we should search a bit more, and not choose most logical option for me…the strange ways the mind (mine) works. After their last gig at JZ, on Thursday May 22nd, there are no [...]