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Part VI: 2K and Beyond

The aughts and the new new China

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2000

2005

2001

2004

Midi Music School’s first festival; first issue of Painkiller heavy metal magazine.

2002

2008

2007

2009

2010

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China joins the World Trade Organization; Beijing wins bid for 2008 Olympics.

Cold-Blooded Animal performs at South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas; Reflector tours US west coast.

The Lijiang Snow Mountain Music Festival.

2003

February: Shanghai wins bid to host 2010 World Expo.

March: Brain Failure and Hang on the Box perform at SXSW.

Pangu performs at “Say Yes to Taiwan” festival, then seeks, and receives, asylum in Sweden.

Cui Jian’s Show You Colour released; Brain Failure performs on Van’s Warped Tour.

2006

Rolling Stones perform in Shanghai; Cui Jian joins in on “Wild Horses”, Keith narrowly avoids certain death from falling object.

Linkin Park and Roger Waters perform in Shanghai; Beijing Pop Festival features Public Enemy, Nine Inch Nails and others.

Bjork performs in Shanghai; Voodoo Kungfu performs at Waken Festival.

Pop star hopeful Huang Ying sings “Nothing to My Name” on Happy Girls TV pop-star contest.

2011

December 31, 2010-January 1 2011: Cui Jian performs in front of his former employer, the Beijing Symphony Orchestra (formerly Beijing Song and Dance Ensemble), for two nights of concerts.

New Pants performs at Coachella Festival; Hanggai performs at Bonnaroo; Bob Dylan and the Eagles perform in Beijing and Shanghai.

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March: Rolling Stones announce, then cancel, concerts in China

June-July: China Music Lab tour sends Iz, Wang Lei and Tongue on French tour

August 2004: Helanshan Music Festival in Western China unites first-generation yaogun bands.

James Brown performs in Shanghai; China version of Rolling Stone magazine debuts in March

Rolling Stone replaced by InMusic

2011

ReTROS and Lonely China Day perform at SXSW.

Rustic wins Global Battle of the Bands; Carsick Cars and P.K. 14 play SXSW.

Happy Birthday P.R.C.: Midi Festival moves to Zhenjiang for its tenth anniversary; all fourteen international acts scheduled for the Modern Sky Festival banned from attending.

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The release of Red Rock

Beijing metal band Ordnance’s Rock City banned for harming “national honor”.

Meanwhile...

Releases in 2000:

Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park

Stiff Upper Lip by AC/DC (their 15th)

Parachutes by Coldplay

iTunes sells its billionth download.

Rolling Stones play to 2 million people in Rio de Janeiro

The Strokes’ Is This It, Nickleback’s Silver Side Up, from which, “You Remind Me” is the Billboard Hot 100’s #1 song of the year.

2000

Metallica sues Napster

2001

2006

2003

Phil Spector arrested; 100 people killed at a Great White show in Rhode Island; Linkin Park’s Meteora debuts at #1 on Billboard album chart

2011

Steven Tyler (Aerosmith) becomes a judge on American Idol

2008

“Guns N’ Roses” release Chinese Democracy;

a “rocker” (David Cook) wins American Idol season.

2010

The Who perform at the Super Bowl halftime show; Arcade Fire win Best Album Grammy (The Suburbs)

Glee breaks the Beatles’ record for most songs on the Billboard Hot 100 chart: Beatles: 71

Glee: 75

(Elvis: 108)

Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Sex Pistols inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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