The deja-vu encountered by looking through the Modern Sky Festival’s early-October 2013 lineup inspired the penultimate post by the now-done-with-Tumblr Slink Rat. It’s a deja-vu this blog has also had, and one that all fans of yaogun and observers of China’s growing festival scene should, too. In short, Slink Rat questioned why, with as genuine a curiosity as one might intuit from a blog post, it is the case that the same bands play the festival every year. To that we might add the concern that this is happening across the festival landscape in a way, Slink Rat points out, that wouldn’t fly elsewhere.
Tag: china music radar
Microblogging: 1, The Man: 0; Yaogun: ?
Big ups to China Music Radar for this juicy tidbit, in which we are told of how Weibo, China’s Twitter, helped Chengdu, Sichuan rock band Mr. Chelonian emerge victorious over AMC Group, the company behind a Tiger Beer Battle of the Bands competition that had refused to pay the fee the band was promised.
Sad Yaogun News
Reports of the death of producer and musician Chen Yuli, from a car accident in Paris, have made the rounds, and China Music Radar does a good job of summing up Chen’s contributions to yaogun. In short: Chen was an accomplished producer of many young bands (and, oh yeah, the Beijing Olympics), and played with Arrows Made of Desire. He will be missed.