Happy New Year everyone. Chinese New Year feels like a grace period, a second shot at beginning again. All the shops are closed, the streets are empty. It’s as if the past hazy month since New Year’s was actually just a gaping hole in the space time continuum which gets miraculously gobbled up into theContinueContinue reading “From Dog to Pig”
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Chengdu Street Vibes, NUART Festival is Back
NUART艺术节由NU SPACE和明堂创意工作区主办，是一个独立的音乐和艺术节，展示来自中国一些最令人兴奋的独立音乐厂牌的最创新性的艺人，尤其是那些结合了新媒体和数字艺术的，创造一个合作的视听表演环境。今年的第四季NUART，将展示三十多位艺人，跨越两个室内舞台，成都视觉团队谱造司负责全场视觉呈现，和由Paradise Records与New Noise举办的街头派对和黑胶市场在充满独立摊位和社区精神的奎星楼街上。 为了庆祝成都的多元的夜生活，今年NUART很高兴跟成都最受欢迎的三个俱乐部：Nomad, Funky Town方糖和.TAG合作举办三个after派对。 Hosted by NU SPACE and MiNTOWN Studio Community, NUART Festival is an independent music and arts street festival that showcases fresh, genre-breaking artists from some of China’s most exciting independent labels, especially those who incorporate new media and digital art, bringing together like-minded creatives into a collaborative audio-visualContinueContinue reading “Chengdu Street Vibes, NUART Festival is Back”
Far Out Distant Sounds in New Zealand: Interview with Ricky Maymi
Owing to the wondrous power of the innernette, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Ricky Maymi for a few years now. Known to many as guitarist of the notoriously volatile Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Imajinary Friends, Maymi is also synonymous with the promotion of Chinese indie rock abroad, specifically the Beijing bands that emerged inContinueContinue reading “Far Out Distant Sounds in New Zealand: Interview with Ricky Maymi”
Favourite Releases 2016
The other day, while sunbathing on the lawn of a Melrose flat, my friend and I began thinking about the diminishing human element involved in post-internet music consumption. When I was at high school, I basically lived at Slow Boat Records and Real Groovy – music havens where I’d browse for hours, listen to CD posts, purchase records, get recommendationsContinueContinue reading “Favourite Releases 2016”
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