Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
Editor’s Picks June 3-6 (UPDATE: Don’t Forget Jeans Team Tonite)
Holy Crap! Today is Brazil day at the Expo? In the same week as German day? I was hoping for a little more volume to Brazil day, but Carlinhos Brown and Mart’nália are not people to shake sticks at.
Free your Mind and your Ass will Follow
We have been saying for some weeks now that the music scene in Shanghai is pretty hectic! Because we are only ducks and not octopuses, we occasionally have to ask for help, and Leo from Free the Wax has lent us some of his free time with this one. Free the Robots will play this Saturday at YuYinTang, and we wanted to tell you what kind of robots they are freeing, and about the music they will play for us; so we made an exception from our rules (sorry boss) and asked Leo to do the interview for us himself. And, yes, be careful, Free the Robots are freeing some wax on Saturday at YuYinTang. (!)
Midi Music Festival 2009 Zhejiang
The Midi Music Festival, the biggest rock show in China, is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and this year takes place in Zhejiang. The line up has recently been revealed and we have it here for you. We’ve got links to the bands you don’t know and want to know, and info on how to get yourself to Zhejiang. Also, if you are going on a road trip let us know!
Soil & “Pimp” Sessions Pimping at the BBC
These six guys from Japan are crazy fun jazz/funk cats. The BBC just reviewed their last album Planet Pimp, which is a “full on death jazz attack,” as Soil & Pimp accurately described it themselves. It’s not a very new release (it has been out there since August 2008), but we are betting it’s new [...]
