Arrows Made of Desire is releasing their new album this next days, on May 29th. Layabozi got a preview of it, and a great interview with Joewi Verhoeven leader, singer and songwriter of AMoD. Read here about their music, the new album Songs that Sell Out, and listen in advance to two of their new songs.
You know the score, but this week there’s an bonus Conflict of Interest Pick!
This May holiday will be packed with events, the Midi Festival in Zhenjiang, Straight Oota Canada here in Shanghai, and also here in Shanghai is the World Music Festival, which is apparently some kind of proto-Expo thing. Here’s the line-up:
The Midi Music Festival, the biggest rock show in China, is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and this year takes place in Zhejiang. The line up has recently been revealed and we have it here for you. We’ve got links to the bands you don’t know and want to know, and info on how to get yourself to Zhejiang. Also, if you are going on a road trip let us know!
The place was packed and it was only 9pm. With the new renovations Yuyingtang’s manager Durn (Haisheng) has been working on, a lot more folks can squeeze in to get their live fix, and over 400 turned up for the show Saturday night. After getting us all excited with Yoi and Pinkberry, nice and cozy with Wild Cat (the Asian rock team), and then revved up with Crazy Mushroom slinging us around from a whisper to a scream, Hedgehog made a big entrance.
The doctor’s prescription is: music.
Bass player and Public Enemy producer, Brian Hardgroove, talks about his experience in China’s punk scene during his visit in 2007 on Gibson’s website. Hardgrooves goes over his experience producing Demerit’s record under the Maybe Mars label, and his later experience when a Japanese label call him to produce one of their albums. At the [...]
Beijing rockers Hedgehog have just release their new album Blue Daydreaming.
Hedgehog are: Zo on guitar and vocals, Box on bass and Atom on drums and vocals. Hedgehog’s sound is friendly, well produced melodies creating a catchy rock that will keep you hung on your speakers. This week they are officially releasing Blue Daydreaming in Beijing, [...]