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Beijing’s Chui Wan Surfs Your Brain Waves
Name: Chui Wan (吹万)
Where They're from: Beijing, China
When They started: 2010
Genre: Psychedelic Surfgaze
Most Similar: Tame Impala, Grizzly Bear, Unknown...
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Don’t “Miss Out” on Blush
Hailing from Hong Kong, India, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, the ladies of Blush spread sass and attitude wherever they go. The fivesome continue their dance...
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The Great Undivide: How Popular Culture is Slowly Unifying North and South Korea
Words and Interview by Han Chang.
With 260 million Youtube hits as of Sunday, an appearance on Saturday Night Live and a performance at Rockefeller Plaza, “Gangnam...
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The GTW Goes Global-Fi With BengFang
It's been awhile since we caught up with Chicago rapper The GTW but it is definitely time now. 4814, his new EP with Chicago producer BengFang finds him sounding pretty...
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Duck Fight Goose Pumps Up The Post-Punk With “Glass Walls” MV
This new video for "Glass Walls" off Duck Fight Goose's 2011 album Sports is a spare yet mind altering companion to the Shanghai band's tight post-punk grooves.
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Minor Soul: The Chinese Connection
Name: Minor Soul (Jack and Max Wagner)
Where They’re From: Hong Kong
Genre: rock folk pop
When They Started: 2010
Reminds Us Of: Extreme (Yes, that '90s...
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Global Garage: 10 Bands Making Old Rock ‘N’ Roll Sound New
The United States might be the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, but no sooner had the strange beast reared its head than it was everywhere else too. It caught on fast...
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10 International Artists to Watch at SXSW 2012
Yes, it’s that time of year again: SXSW is upon us. Even though there will be a zillion bands in attendance (that’s the official count), you are guaranteed to hear...
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Raw Flower: Androsace Blooms Wildly In Shanghai
Androsace the plant is an unassuming but hardy species with tiny flowers that can be found in cold, rocky environments across Asia and Europe. Androsace the band is a...
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Duck Fight Goose Drops New Album, Sports
It's been awhile since we've heard from the incomparable Duck Fight Goose, Shanghai's badass math rockers who wowed us with the EP Flow last December. They're out with a...
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All For A Vision’s Clear-Eyed HK Electro Rock
One of Hong Kong's most refreshing new bands, All for A Vision takes the electronicore tactics of a heavily tattooed group like Asking Alexandria and retools them in the...
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Tengger Cavalry’s Black Metal For Pagan Hordes
If you think about it, incorporating throat singing and Mongolian instruments and shamanic traditions into black metal is really a totally logical move. Mongolian...
MTV Iggy Show
The MTV Iggy Show — Episode 6
We’re bringing you to Iceland to meet some not-so-sheepish indie rockers, we’ll swing past the UK to visit the queen of the grime and then wind up in China for a Kung-fu...
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Little Punk Is Big Time Alright
Shanghai loves her energetic performances with her band, but she's getting a fair amount of attention for her solo work as Little Punk. She released the album Hey guy,...
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Pairs Trash Shanghai
Pairs is couple of cute kids who live in Shanghai and make an awful lot of noise. F provides the grinding, splintered guitar noise. Rhys, AKA Xiao Zhong, keeps the beat...
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AV Okubo — “Breakwave”
Keep a Mortal Kombat style power-up handy after jamming to AV Okubo’s “Break Wave.” The energetic Chinese punk band (with notable metal influence) shows us how they get...
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Sound Kapital: Beijing’s Music Underground
One of Beijing's grungiest clubs is D-22, a slim sliver of a rock club in the city's University district of Wudaokou. That was the hangout of Matthew Niederhauser, a...
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China’s Queen Sea Big Shark Rides Waves Of Electro Surf
Beijing rockers Queen Sea Big Shark are one of the most interesting groups on the rise in China's rock scene. More established bands like Carsick Cars play noisy indie...
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Shanghai’s Pairs Make Beautiful Noise Together
Shanghai-based Australian-Chinese duo Pairs have been assaulting the streets and clubs of their city with their inspired approach to making noise for almost a year...
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China’s Post-Punkers Re-TROS To Tour With Gang of Four
Australia! Prepare to have your face rocked off with cold post-punk fire!
Re-TROS, Beijing's masters of dark, lacerating punk, have been asked to join UK O.G.s Gang...