http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987 An insider's look at the music industry in China Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987&cpage=1#comment-3404 Sing for China, the album | China Music Radar Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:39:06 +0000 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987#comment-3404 [...] Modern Sky took three of their bands on a road trip across the US of A.  You can read all about it HERE.  It was the subject of some fierce [...] [...] Modern Sky took three of their bands on a road trip across the US of A.  You can read all about it HERE.  It was the subject of some fierce [...]

]]> http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987&cpage=1#comment-3308 Links: Articles, News, and More | Beijing Gig Blog Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:17:03 +0000 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987#comment-3308 [...] sing for china: some reflec­tions from china music radar An inter­est­ing look at last year’s Mod­ern Sky tour of the United [...] [...] sing for china: some reflec­tions from china music radar An inter­est­ing look at last year’s Mod­ern Sky tour of the United [...]

]]> http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987&cpage=1#comment-3215 vyina Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:31:49 +0000 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987#comment-3215 ahmm!what is the song of china? because this is my assignment in MAPEH. ahmm!what is the song of china?
because this is my assignment in MAPEH.

]]> http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987&cpage=1#comment-3178 US clamping down? | China Music Radar Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:11:41 +0000 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987#comment-3178 [...] Chinese Music Industry, but what with all the China band tours that have been happening recently (HERE and HERE), we thought it might be of [...] [...] Chinese Music Industry, but what with all the China band tours that have been happening recently (HERE and HERE), we thought it might be of [...]

]]> http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987&cpage=1#comment-3128 Pat Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:36:26 +0000 http://www.chinamusicradar.com/?p=987#comment-3128 I disagree, if you want to keep Chinese indie within China, ie: only a Chinese audience will enjoy it, not knowing any other indie bands sound like outside of China, that's fine. Your "artist love music" argument would stand. The thing is Chinese bands are trying to break outside of China, which is great, but they're competing with Western bands that have been doing this a lot longer, and have lived and breath indie music all their life. In that case the Chinese band would get their eyes opened real quick. And it's frustrating you know, we want Chinese indie bands to be able to compete with the best of them, we want China to have a brand of indie music that is their own (like Swedish pop for Sweden, or Shibuya Kei for Japan), but the quality is simply not there. And if you give me the argument like "oh give it time, it'll get there", no, I think that's a cup out, let's find out what is going on and try to help in that direction. I'm not really trying to analyzing for the sake of criticising it (well, mostly I'm not) . But, by identifying the problem, one can work towards fixing it. I disagree, if you want to keep Chinese indie within China, ie: only a Chinese audience will enjoy it, not knowing any other indie bands sound like outside of China, that’s fine. Your “artist love music” argument would stand.
The thing is Chinese bands are trying to break outside of China, which is great, but they’re competing with Western bands that have been doing this a lot longer, and have lived and breath indie music all their life. In that case the Chinese band would get their eyes opened real quick. And it’s frustrating you know, we want Chinese indie bands to be able to compete with the best of them, we want China to have a brand of indie music that is their own (like Swedish pop for Sweden, or Shibuya Kei for Japan), but the quality is simply not there. And if you give me the argument like “oh give it time, it’ll get there”, no, I think that’s a cup out, let’s find out what is going on and try to help in that direction. I’m not really trying to analyzing for the sake of criticising it (well, mostly I’m not) . But, by identifying the problem, one can work towards fixing it.

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