February 22nd 2007, Azchael of www.rockinchina.com interview The 4 Sivits, an oldschool hardcore punk band from Germany destined to perform on Chinese stages this April…
Their website: http://www.the4sivits.net/
Their tourdates: Tour schedule 2007
Archive for February, 2007
The 4 Sivits Interview
February 27, 2007Artist of the week: Overload
February 27, 2007 
In September 1991 when main songwriter and guitarist Gao Qi left his former hard rock band The Breathing, he found a new band Overload together with Han Hongbin on Guitars and Zhao Muyang on the drums, on the four-strings was Wang Xiaozhong, who became bassplayer of later famous rock band Zeropoint (LING DIAN). Mastermind Gao Qi was the main songwriter of all the hits this band had and let his fave for metal guitaring flow into the songs. Before they came to release the only album, Gaoqi decided to leave because of personal and musical differences. His talent for writing catchy and emotional melodies shall bring another band to Chinas Olymp of Rock.
OVERLOAD was one of the most important bands in the Rock history of China. Their early days acting influenced most of the Chinese metal and hard rock fans. Maybe they would even write Chinas Rock history anew if they can make it to release another record like their debut in the golden age of rock before 1994. Maybe they also will consider to return to their metal rules when Chinas heavy metal becomes a new force in 10 years?
Re-TROS and Lonely China Day on U.S. Tour
February 24, 2007
More international tours by Chinese musicians are coming to light right now. This time around it’s the guys and gals in the U.S. being particularly lucky.
On tour throughout the east cost and the Midwest are the post-punk band Re-TROS aka Rebuilding the Right of Statues and indie-rock band Lonely China Day. See the full schedule below.
03/02/07 – Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews
03/03/07 – St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
03/04/07 – Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
03/05/07 – Chicago, IL – Schubas
03/06/07 – Newport, KY – Southgate House
03/08/07 – New York, NY – The Cake Shop
03/09/07 – Brooklyn, NY – Southpaw
03/10/07 – Richmond, VA – Gallery5
03/11/07 – Boone, NC – Black Cat Burrito
03/12/07 – Columbia, SC – The (art) Garage
03/14-18/07 – Austin, TX – SXSW, venues tba
The tour will be finished off by playing at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX.
Also both Re-TROS and Lonely China Day have produced professional music videos. Check out the Re-TROS song TV Show (Hang the Police) on MySpace and Lonely China Day’s One below.
Beijing HipHop – MC Battle
February 23, 2007
There is a very nice episode on Current TV about the underground hip hop scene in Beijing. It features Beijing MC Young Kin competing against some Taiwanese guy in an MC Battle.
Check it out on Current TV: MC Beijing Battle
(Via: YouMeiTI 有媒体)
Sonic Youth in Beijing and Shanghai in April
February 22, 2007Sonic Youth are coming for their first ever gig in China to Shanghai and Beijing in April.
They will be playing Beijing on the 23rd of April at The Star Live and Shanghai on the 24th at The Paramount. See the bands calendar and the organizer Spli-t for more information.
SMZB Europe Tour 2007
February 21, 2007
Chinese punk band SMZB is going on a Europe Tour in 2007. Dates below:
Our info on the band: SMZB at the RiC Wiki
Website of the band: http://www.smzb.com
March:
29-Sweden-TBA
30-Sweden-Vj-Club Jailhouse
April:
1-Day off / Travel day
2-Germany-TBA
3-Austria-Wien-Movimento
4-Austria-TBA
5-Germany-Konstanz-tba
6-Germany-Freiburg-tba
7-Germany-Offenburg-tba
8-TRAVEL DAY
9-Germany-Potsdam-Archiv
10-Germany-Zittau-cafe emil
11-Germany-Dresden-Chemiefabrik
12-Germany-TBA
13-Germany-Halle-TBA
14-Germany-Leipzig-Zoro
15-Germany-Berlin-Tommy Haus
16-Day off
17-Germany-TBA
18-Germany-TBA
19-Germany-Bentheim-Jugendhaus
20-Germany-Hamburg-LoBusch
21-Germany-Flensburg-Hafermarkt
22-Denmark-Copehagen
23-Day off
24-Norway-Oslo
25-Norway-Trondheim-UFFA
26-Norway-Lillehammer-Felix
27-Norway-Bergen
28-Norway-Stavanger Punk Festival
29-Day Off
30-Norway-Porsgrunn
May:
1-Norway-Arendal
2-Day off
3-TBA
4-Sweden-Orebro-Klubb Idiot
5-Sweden-Goteborg-Showdown
Video: Cui Jian at Shanghai JZ Club
February 19, 2007There is a live video of Cui Jian performing in Shanghai’s JZ Club on January, 29th.
You can watch it here on Chinese Tudou Video Sharing website.
(Via: Shanghaiist)
Artist of the week: Ego Fall
February 18, 2007
The foundational line up of China’s first Metal Core Band Ego Fall (other name: AGAINST ME) came from the former inner mongolian grunge band called SUBCONSCIOUS (潜意识 QianYiShi) which was found back in 2000 with Su BoRi also on the vocals. After a tempolary departure of Guitarist Wang Yang on year later, a new vocalist Wang Bin came into the band along with Guitarist Mao ChenWei and led the music changed more towards metal style. Like many underground musicians in China band members came to Beijing searching for a better destiny in Autumn of the same year but it didnt work out as expected so they returned home soon after while Wang Bin and Chen Wei left the band because of musical differences and found another melodic death metal band called FUNERAL POETRY (殉葬诗 XunZangShi)back in Inner Mongolia.
New I-GO Video “It’s No Easy”
February 12, 2007Shanghai Electro/New Wave duo I-GO have a new video to their song “It’s No Easy” made by French director Toma.
A better quality version is available on MySpace or for download on this site.
New Joyside album and Europe Tour!?
February 12, 2007
Beijing Punk band Joyside are currently in the studio for recording their new album containing 9 new tracks plus one cover song. For the album they signed with a German independent label and will be released in Europe in April this year. You can read more details in Chinese on their blog.
Also we got wind of a possible Joyside Beijing Bubbles-Tour in Europe this April. At least one date in Jena, Germany on the 21st of April seems to be fixed. See the venues web page for future updates: www.kassablanca.de (in German).
UPDATE:
Joyside will be touring Germany, Austria and Switzerland in April/May 2007 (booking at peggy@buback.de). The new album will be released on Fly Fast Records, a new European label “exclusively devoted to punk, rock and folk music from Asia”. On their website you can also listen to two new songs by Joyside.
Simultaneously to the tour, the documentary film Beijing Bubbles with the bands Joyside, Hang on the Box, Sand, New Pants and T9 will start airing from Thursday, 19th of April in Germany and one week later in Austria and Switzerland. Read the news on this page (in German).
Other International Screening of Beijing Bubbles are:
- New York – USA, Museum of Modern Art, 21.02.2007, www.moma.org
- Edmonten – Kanada, Global Visions Film Festival, 29.03.2007, www.globalvisionsfestival.com
