You know the score, but this week there’s an bonus Conflict of Interest Pick!
If you’re here this weekend, read this and you will know what it means to be fested.
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Here’s my review of what they did with Cut Off!:
Dark.
Very Dark.
I think its safe to put this in the Gothic Rock section.
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 [...]
WARNING!: Canadian hardcore punk band Fucked Up is touring China with S.T.D. Get ready, use protection, do not trust these strangers, and think twice before getting too close to these dudes. This is an infectious mix of musical fluids that could definitely harm you for life. And they are on the way to Shanghai. Be worried. For more information and recommendations on how to handle them continue reading.
The famous PK14 from Beijing just released a new video for the song “多么美妙的夜晚” (“How Majestic is the Night”) from their album 城市天气的航行 (City Weather Sailing), released in 2008. The video was directed by Jonas Lundberg & Petrus Sjövik and has a very nice over-exposed style that we really like.