Blog Tag - Split Works
Nashville isn’t all about all-American cowboys, strumming guitars at open mics, wailing lyrics meant to tug at the heartstrings of a mass audience....
Whereas festival season here in the capital has pretty much wound down for yet another year, one of China's biggest festivals is still yet to come....
There was a time when the “being big in Japan” trope was slapped on one hit wonders like Mr. Big and other Western bands that failed to gain lasting...
Feeling a little down? Fear not, because indie folk star and feel-good guru Devendra Banhart has plenty of sunny vibes and time-honored wisdom to...
Be it frontman Joe Casey's gruff singing style or his bandmates' pummeling playing, Detroit post-punks Protomartyr are a band that certainly don't ...
They're Brits, they're brothers, and they play rock and roll, but that's just about where the comparison to a certain other set of famous UK rock...
Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin. Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors. These are but a few of the rock stars with whom...
Although music was a means to mourn for Michelle Zauner after her mother’s passing, one of her songs became all the more cathartic when she found out...
Long before Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and his bandmates in Tinariwen won a Grammy, before they collaborated with indie-rock hotshots like Kurt Vile and...
Who says you need to be big and burly in body to be imposing? Margaret Glaspy's singing, for instance, can be brawny enough to make a giant quiver in...
Boasting a voice that is by turns rawly vulnerable and sweetly tender, along with guitar chops and songwriting skills that easily straddle alt-rock...
Since 2015, Texan ambient pop quartet Cigarettes After Sex have been steadily building an enthused following with a string of singles that are...
Beijing music fans' hearts sank when gig promoter Split Works' plans to bring indie rock darling Angel Olsen to the Mainland recently fell through....
He’s been up on stage on his own, drawing a bow across his violin’s strings, and yet creating more bombast than an entire orchestra. That’s because...
Krish Raghav, when not helping to fill Beijing’s gig calendar with top-notch foreign acts as the Content and Media Coordinator for China-based gig...