Blog Tag - Interview
While it’s common for rock outfits to pad out their sound over the years to appease the mainstream market, aiming for a slicker and blander arena...
While his mother dreamed of Julliard, Daniel Park strummed his violin like a rock guitarist. Yes, long before he became an accomplished multi-...
Welcome to Wudaokou Watch! We'll meet a different Beijing-based international student each week, to hear about their life in China's capital...
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Apparently, Carl Barât didn't get his fill of rock and roll feuds with Pete Doherty during The Libertines’ heyday. Notorious as the British garage...
More than 85 million people in China identify as living with disabilities, according to the 2010 National Sample Survey on Disability. Sadly, only 1...
![Blues is Universal Because It is Based on Feeling" Says Harmonica Master, Sugar Blue, Apr 27](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/349562/30415518_10156201598856585_411081897905144736_n.jpg "Blues is Universal Because It is Based on Feeling" Says Harmonica Master, Sugar Blue, Apr 27")
This weekend won't be the first time that blues marvel Sugar Blue's harmonica notes reverberate throughout Blue Note Beijing. "I am in and out of...
When Giegling co-founder Konstantin made comments to a female reporter in 2017 about how women were "usually worse at DJing than men" and that to...
Both a pioneering hero in India and a globetrotting renegade who has performed in such legendary places like Tresor, Verboten, and Paradiso, Arjun...
When Milo Aukerman bounds onstage these days with his fellow middle-aged punks in The Descendents and begins to sing, “I don't need no booze or drugs...
For over a decade Wu Zhuoling has been making music as a solo artist. The progression of her work on albums like How to Dispel the Distance (2009)...
![Modern Troubadour Isaac Gracie: "It's Hard Not to be a Little Melancholic," Apr 25](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/349562/img_2617.jpg "Modern Troubadour Isaac Gracie: "It's Hard Not to be a Little Melancholic," Apr 25")
"I'm terrified that maybe I wasn't cut out for this" sings Isaac Gracie in one of his hits "Terrified". The fear is perhaps not totally misplaced:...
I find it’s utterly impossible to not be entertained by surf rock. Scratch that, to not be thrown into the depths of a giddy rock and roll high that...
For listeners, dream-pop can all too often be written off as music for road trips, barefoot running down beaches, and summer crushes. However, for...
!["Satanic Rituals Tend to Be Disappointing" Say L.A. Goths Robedoor Ahead of Apr 4 and Apr 5 Gigs](https://www.thebeijinger.com/sites/default/files/styles/blog_list_image/public/thebeijinger/blog-images/345221/robedoor.jpg ""Satanic Rituals Tend to Be Disappointing" Say L.A. Goths Robedoor Ahead of Apr 4 and Apr 5 Gigs")
LA drone duo, Robedoor, summon music that is dark, distorted, and occult enough to evoke the underworld. If that wasn't enough, Alex and Britt Brown...
If you have ever encountered Beijing-based, Finnish guitarist Jukka Ahonen (and considering he’s in about five bands off the top of my head, that’s...