Podcast: Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain

Already in their third installment are Kyle Schaefer and Ian Sherman with their monthly podcast “Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain” (navigate to Podcast in the menu). Supported by Tag Team Records, they play music from “the fascinating world of sino-rock” - everything that is connected to the Chinese rock universe. Quite worth the listen!

Movie: Wasted Orient by Kevin Fritz available!

The documentary about Chinese punkers Joyside, called Wasted Orient and directed by Kevin Fritz is available on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk these days. Fritz accompanies Joyside on their China Tour and documents their rock’n'roll life. The movie is avaiable on DVD and has a playtime of approx. 92 minutes.

Another movie of the Chinese music scene, Beijing Bubbles by Susanne Messmer and George Lindt, with Joyside and other bands like Hang On The Box and New Pants is said to be released in January on Fly Fast Records together with a new album from Car-Sick Cars.

Carsick Cars to support for Sonic Youth mini-tour

Beijing’s Carsick Cars will be supporting Sonic Youth on a mini-tour in Eastern Europe. Dates already confirmed are August 25 in Prague, Czech Republic and August 26 in Vienna, Austria.

Carsick Cars where already scheduled as support for Sonic Youth on their Beijing concert on April 23 this year, but where canceled in the last moment.

Photo by jennywong. 

Beijing Pop Festival 2007

Chaoyang Park in Beijing will host this years Beijing Pop Festival again from September 8-9. They have quite an extensive line up of international and local artists. The line up includes:

• Nine Inch Nails
• Public Enemy
• Marky Ramone from The Ramones
• New York Dolls
• Brett Anderson (ex-Suede) and Band
• Cui Jian
• Mando Diao
• Mumiy Troll
• Muma & Third Party
• Xie Tian Xiao
• Rize
• Thin Man
• Brain Failure
• Joyside
• The Honeys
• Shelftalker
• Doc Holiday & Apache Train
• David & The Citizens
• Wan Xiaoli
• The Verse
• Convenience Store
• Milk@Coffee
• The Scoff

Tickets are 200 RMB in advance for one day and 380 RMB for both days. It’s 250 RMB on the day of the show for one day.

For more info check the web site: www.beijingpopfestival.com

MiSanDao 2007 Europe Tour

First China Oi! Punk band MiSanDao from Beijing are touring Germany, France and Switzerland in August and September. They will start off on August 19 playing several festivals and bars and finish their tour on September 15 at Oi! The Meeting 2007 in Leipzig, Germany.

For the complete dates and info see their MySpace page and the Rock in China Group Calender on Yahoo! Upcoming.

We will add more dates as the information becomes available.

More than 2000 photos online

Since we’ve started our Rock in China Flickr Group more than 80 photographers joined and we’ve collected more than 1000 photos in the group. Surplus the various sets not yet added, but viewable at Rock in China, there are more than 2000 photos of rock concerts, festivals, electro gigs, metal bands and other underground music events available at Rock in China. For the Midi festival we’ve opened sections for 2007, 2006, 2005 and the Jazz festival 2005.
Check out the photos and submit us yours!

Rock on!!!

Azchael

How to add photos to RiC

This is a quick guideline on how to automatically add your photos of Chinese underground rock / metal / punk / jazz / concerts / etc. to Rock in China.

All photos will appear here.

1. Go to Flickr, this is a photo hosting service of Yahoo! on which you can upload photos, share them and publish them.
2. Get yourself an account (if you ain’t have one). The free account lets you store up to 200 photos.
3. Become a member of our Rock in China group.
4. Go to each photo that you want to send us
OR
4a. Go to the Organizr in Flickr and make a batch of all photos you want to send us.
5. Click “Send to Group”, select “Rock and Underground music from China” and press “send”
6. Congratulations, you’ve sent us the photos and they will automatically be displaced at Rock in China!

Rock on!!!
Azchael
Rock in China

New features at RiC

Hi guys,

just a short update on what’s new on RiC:

1.  We’ve integrated our Flickr photo group at RiC. Check it out and see some recent photos, some from Midi 2007, some selected Sets and some PK shots.
2. We’ve opened a “Featured News” area at RiC. At the moment featured: three festivals (Modern Sky, Hangzhou Rock and Shanghai Rock it!) plus the Testament Gig!
3. A cooperation with Small Swords Magazine in Shanghai started sharing interesting articles and supporting the rock scene together! Check them out, they have some nice articles and interviews.

Rock on!!!

Azchael

HangGai (T9) to play Berlin, Germany

HangGai, the Beijing-based Mongolian band, will play in Berlin for a special concert on the Mongolian national holiday “Naadam” on Wednesday, July 11th. The evening will start with a screening of the documentary Beijing Bubbles also featuring the band.

For details see Fly Fast Records.

Liquido Interview

German pop rock band Liquido rocked the Chinese Midi Festival in 2007. We’ve posted a video and intereviewed the band. Stefan, the bass player, answered Rock in China’s questions on the festival, their experiences in China and whether they would like to come back one day.

Check out the interview …

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