Posts Tagged ‘ music ’
This is a sidebar I wrote to accompany my story about Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips for the South China Morning Post. It wasn’t included in the newspaper for space reasons. (Photos by Swangsta.) Hipster-conscious music fans with a predilection for Lady Gaga can relax: Wayne Coyne likes her too. But not so much for [ READ MORE ]
This entry is a two-parter: 1. This piece is inspired by 2010 Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiao Bo for his fearless non-violent struggle for basic human rights in China. 2. A group of protesters “celebrated” Mr. Liu’s award of Nobel Peace Prize outside China’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. One protestor spilled champagne onto the [ READ MORE ]
I recorded this video of a beatboxer with my phone at a recent CocoRosie gig in Austin. It demonstrates clearly that you don’t need an instrument to make beautiful sounds, or to grip a crowd completely[ READ MORE ]
I cringe when people get defensive about Hong Kong’s arts and culture scene. “Don’t let anyone ever tell you there’s nothing going on here,” they insist. “Who says Hong Kong doesn’t have great live music? You just have to know where to look.” Sadly, these people are pretty much wrong, and by being overly defensive [ READ MORE ]
The following is another guest post from the extraordinary Monsieur Bonhomie. Enjoy. Is rock’n'roll dead? Or, as the joke goes, does it just smell that way? It’s an old joke, but then again, it’s an old question – one that tends to say more about the age of the person asking it than about the [ READ MORE ]
Just a simple pondering on why the time limit on a certain thing would be called “deadline”. I prefer “time limit” — yes it does not have the sense of urgency, but I am a superstitious person to start with[ READ MORE ]
Especially when it comes to self-indulgent, faux avant garde musique concrete mess of a live jam. At best it shows as a road map for the listener, at worst, at least the audience knows that there is an end to it. Anyhow, if guitarists and bassists have their tablatures, and even “turntablists” have their own [ READ MORE ]
This week’s entry was supposed to be our tribute to the 90s movie Shopping (a mediocre 90s Brit Flick by Paul S. ‘Resident Evil’ Anderson ,which cashed in on the then-topical ‘ram-raiding’incidents). The movie was mediocre but the theme by the Sabres of Paradise was quite a fave. The drifting horn part intro matched well [ READ MORE ]
This song is based on a previous Snoblind song, Rampant, which appeared in Greenpeace Taiwan’s online compilation. The song is not so much a call to action to reduce our carbon footprint (we should be doing that with or without music), but it was inspired by the scorching heat in the summer months (Nils Petter [ READ MORE ]
The scene is all too familiar: the kind of slow movement with listeless glare that you see in most CBDs and office areas in Hong Kong in the morning. This is my music for dronespotting[ READ MORE ]
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