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 …
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: …
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 …