Blog Tag - Band Interview

Watch Out For Macondo, The Coolest Post Rock Band in Beijing
Macondø, a Beijing-based post-rock outfit that was formed in China in 2015, has been making waves in the local scene as of late with their exciting...
Sino Hearts
A wide-eyed spirited burst of punk, power pop, neo mod, and garage rock, Beijing’s The Sino Hearts – led by globe-trotting guitarist and singer Yuxin...
Alpine Decline is the "Corrupted Files Infecting the Sunshine System" on Their New Release, 'For the Betterment of Well People'
You can take the band out of Beijing, but you can never take Beijing out of the band. Such is the story of Pauline and Jonathan Zeitlin, the...
Rubur
It’s no great revelation to find that a band’s second or third album is stronger than their previous releases. The longer members jam together and...
DP Shanghai's Peach Illusion Brings Their Wanderlust Sound to Comic Book Life, Sep 20 at Yue Space
It doesn’t matter what kind of music fan you are – you could be a metalhead, a hip-hop aficionado, a punk rebel – but when you’re in a KTV and you...
Beijing Musicians Turn COVID-19 Response Up to 11
If art imitates life, then it was only a matter of time before creatives found their place amidst the backdrop of COVID-19. From quarantine mind maps...
Shanghai Qiutian
Making it in the Chinese music scene is hard enough as it is, but for expats it can become a hustle that’ll have you running in circles or worse yet...
Interview with Ruban Nielson, Frontman for Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Ruban Nielson isn't a wuss. And yet, he certainly sounded like one earlier this year, when he described how his "eyes get puffy," when he hikes,...
Interview: The Cardigans' Front Woman Nips Away at Her Wholesome Pop Image
“I have some in my mouth right now,” front woman Nina Persson sheepishly admits of the addictively gooey vice that’s all too common in her homeland...
Three Questions for Musical Duo FM3
Beijing-based FM3 are bringing their meditative music to Yugong Yishan on Wednesday night for the launch of their upcoming release, Ting Shuo....
Japandroids: Down to Earth and Not Japanese
We had a chance to chat with Brian King and David Prowse of Japandroids, a rock duo set to perform in Beijing later this month, and it turns out...
The Dodos, a two piece indie rock outfit from San Fransisco, hooked us back in 2011 with their fourth album, No Color, and the duo is about to share...
Mamer's Boy: Jurat T.T. Album Launch This Saturday
Chinese ethnic bands and musicians are making an ever bigger scene in Beijing and in the wider world. Some of them are not satisfied playing only...
Wu Force Hits on Sunday, Featuring Abigail Washburn, Wu Fei and Kai Welch
For years, banjo girl Abigail Washburn, singer/songwriter Kai Welch and Chinese singer/guzheng master Wu Fei thought about collaborating on...
Chad Valley - Live Tonight  at Temple Bar
Hugo Manuel may be the only songwriter to snag his stage name from a UK toy company that started up during the Victorian era. But what’s even...