No Brown Sugar For China’s Rolling Stones Fans
If you want to meet a gin soaked, bar-room queen and take her upstairs for a ride, then China might not be the place to do it. The lyrics to the Rolling Stones number “Honky Tonk Women” were deemed...
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The Sound Stage: The One
One of the coolest music venues in China, The Vox Live House opens its doors for you. Situated in Wuhan, home to over a million students, The Vox Live House is doing its best to bring Chinese...
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Top Ten Cantopop Countdown
China is, well, not exactly known for its pop music, but Cantopop has it’s stars. A few of those stars have become supernovas. Here is our top ten of C-pop’s all-time greats, those who managed to...
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“Ballads of Jade”玉润琴书 lecture
As part of a series of lectures held in the Commercial Press Hanfen Gallery, Wangfujing street, April 27, “Ballads of Jade” will be hosted by Huang Qinghui, an executive member of the World Chinese...
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Ten English songs to make your ears bleed in China
The Chinese love to sing, and they are not much bothered by which language they sing in either. In China, certain English songs seem to be constantly ringing in your ears everywhere you go, be it a...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto
All cultures have their myths, their fables, their legends, and the most transcendental of these are invariably about love, requited or otherwise, tragic or successful; and the Butterfly Lovers is all...
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How to be cool: Beijing Sonic
Heads bobbed and blue lights flash across the dance floor as the resounding beats transfix the young and fashionably modern crowd. All eyes are focused on the DJ weaves music into an electronic hum...
View ArticleChinese musicians win big at 42nd American Music Awards
Yesterday, music’s biggest stars flocked to the NOKIA theater in LA for the annual 2014 American Music Awards (AMA’s). Second only to the Grammy’s; the prestigious show is a massive stage for musicians...
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Box to the Future
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love—they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” So says Harry Lime in the Carol Reed film The Third Man, but alongside...
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Pop Star Jay Chou Marries Hannah Quinlivan in UK
Mandopop superstar Jay Chou’s newest hit may well be the song he performed during his own wedding. The Taiwanese-born singer tied the knot this past Sunday with his 21-year-old sweetheart,...
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Rock The Pop
Welcome to the Hunan Satellite Television station, located in the Xingsha District of Changsha, Hunan Province. It’s filming day. The giant doors of the 1,300-square-meter studio open in the dark,...
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Robot vs Man in piano contest
As we approach the era of singularity, a competition was held in Beijing recently where a robot faced off in a musical battle with Italian classical pianist, Roberto Prosseda. It’s like looking into a...
View Article8 Songs for Fathers’ Day
Maybe somewhat lost in the fervor of tomorrow’s “Festival of Many Names“, Fathers’ Day is also happening this weekend. If you decide to take your father out for a karaoke session or simply need...
View ArticleChina’s New Political Pop Group
They can often seem awfully similar, but every pop group does have some differences – few, however, sing overt propaganda. In China, a new girl pop group has appeared in the nation’s music scene with...
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5 Apps for Music in China
So, Apple has launched their new music service, Spotify is still infinitely relevant—albeit without Taylor Swift’s support—and Jay Z is still trying to harness the power of celebrity to create Tidal...
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The Beginning of China’s Beatboxers
Beatboxing, from its humble beginnings with the likes of Doug E. Fresh and Biz Markie, has spread around the world with hip-hop culture, and it puts an emphasis on expressing oneself. It is, however, a...
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6 Musicians of Chinese Descent
China has produced many a contributor to the music scene. Most of the well known ones ply their trade in the popular music genre, but there are many more that create great work in less-favored styles....
View ArticleSnow and Ice Song Piracy
Intellectual property—a concept that Chinese manufacturers have traditionally wiped from their rear-ends with their “Charmen” toilet paper and disposed of in bins bought from “Ikia”. But while cases of...
View ArticleDuets for Chinese Valentine’s Day
Happy Chinese Valentine’s Day to all! If you haven’t prepared anything for this very special occasion then you’re in luck. Simply take your other half to a KTV establishment, select the duets...
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Ancient Chinese Percussion Instruments
Chinese people have enjoyed playing percussion instruments since the ancient Shang Dynasty (商朝, 1562 BC-1066 BC). Discovered were inscriptions on bones and tortoise shells indicating a character for...
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