They are young. They are German. They play in Berlin.

Three conditions that might be enough to be something in the European music scene. No CD releases to date. You find them playing in parties, in the subway or  in …

A sexy fusion of Chinese ethnic elements replete with fashionable reduxs of “minority”costumes,  beautiful stars, designed, in part, to attract Western audiences, Sa Dingding (萨顶顶)’s 2007 album Alive (万物生) is the aural equivalent of the Zhang Ziyi/Chang Cheng seduction scene …

The Misra Legacy Compilation I is a fantastic, and free, mixtape of North American indie rock. Details reposted from Crawdaddy:

Out with the old Bracys, in with the new. Misra has always been a fiercely pro-artist record label, founded

A light post for the holidays! For the second year in a row, UK-based online indie music zine The Line of Best Fit has convinced various Canadian musicians to pitch in for their Christmas-themed mix, “Ho! Ho! Ho! Canada.”

This …

If you ever have the chance to go to an X Japan concert, GO! Where else can you see punk heads, Goth lolis, middle-aged salarymen, and a teeny-bopper crowd, all swaying shoulder-to-shoulder for their love of music?

Started in 1978 …

Much has been made of the vigor of the experimental music scene in Beijing, which many observers — myself included — once expected to bridge the gaps between popular music and mass culture on the one hand and fine art …

Sharon Van Etten’s Epic (2010) comes at a strange time for indie rock. The genre is undergoing growing pains from its once haloed position as the alternative to “alternative rock.”

In one respect, indie rock’s become the hot new thing: …

Most of us don’t associate Game Boys with art. Aside from the profane phrases created when you sent Mario plunging to his death, creatively rarely factored into the experience. Chinese electronic musician Sun Dawei is changing that. For years, as …

Though they’ve been around since 1996, Chinese pop/punk/electro outfit New Pants (新裤子) continue to sound fresh and…new, keeping a trouser leg up on the competition by constantly evolving and churning out consistently excellent songs, videos, and live shows. Released in …

A few days ago, at a party at Watagushu Studios, I was introduced to the new album by the group Mamá Pulpa (Marco García, Alfredo Fernández, Juan Aguirre, Esteban Martínez Negrete) called Tocadiscos (the Spanish for “record player”). It seemed …