[Warning: This post contains adult language!] There is little doubt that the current Internet clean-up, under the guise of an “anti-vulgarity campaign,” is the most vicious crackdown in years. Not only are porn sites...
Read MoreBanjo player and singer Abigail Washburn, from Illinois, had a chance to go to Chengdu, China, in 1996 and challenged herself to learn Chinese and local operas. Thereafter, she combined the roots of American music with Chinese...
Read MoreThe following song “You Owe Me My Wages” was composed and sung by Shi Yong, an Internet musician, after he saw many posts about migrant workers asking for their back wages. Shi said that he wanted to stand up for the weak....
Read MoreThe Chinese Navy’s Political Art Troupe has released a song to mark the mission to defeat Somalian pirates. The following music video is from Chinese video sharing site Youku, lyrics translated by the Black and White Cat blog:...
Read MoreHere is an introduction of a Chinese Northwestern folk music band: Wild Children: In February 1995, Wild Children was founded in Hangzhou by Zhang Quan and Xiao Suo. They went back to their birth place Lanzhou later. Most of the...
Read MoreFrom the Telegraph: Musicians and tour organisers have told The Daily Telegraph that a series of significant performances have been affected amid a tightening of political control over the arts and Christianity. Among the...
Read MoreWired interviews the maker of a new documentary about the Chinese punk scene: From Pigface and Ministry to PiL and Killing Joke, drummer Martin Atkins has pounded the skins for some very loud punks. But he didn’t realize...
Read MoreBeijing Natives (北京土著) by Bohong Zhang (张伯宏), Chinese Rap music Flash animation, from YouTube: Also read You Can’t Get a Bad Rap Here in the LA Times: Compliance makes for good business strategy, said Li Hongjie, who runs the...
Read MoreThe LA Times blog reports on Google’s new strategy for distributing music online in China: The U.S. search giant launched a beta version of a Chinese music service called Music Onebox, which is available only in China at...
Read MoreA round up of articles and blog postings from the past year show that both Chinese and western fans are discovering Chinese indie and experimental music. From Shanghaiist: Neocha’s NEXT Player From Music OMH: Beijing, By...
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