Beijing Beat blog with Mark Godfrey

Beijing Beat

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Listening to Asian music, in Asia
By mark_godfrey on 12/12/2007 1:16 PM
Scandinavian-looking Song is the Chinese capital’s most ambitiously designed music club opens with expectation of international music names and Olympic hospitality crowds
By mark_godfrey on 12/12/2007 4:12 AM
Enterprising music shop owner likes “old fashioned” Moore so much he does copies of the singer's CDs for RMB10 - a euro
By mark_godfrey on 11/30/2007 2:38 AM
Grifted’s shirts are another example of China’s new design sensibility - and old habits
By mark_godfrey on 11/28/2007 8:50 PM
Visiting the People’s Daily is a reminder of how much and how little China has changed
By mark_godfrey on 11/16/2007 4:07 AM
You can find U2 in even the most remote Chinese provincial music shop
By mark_godfrey on 11/11/2007 1:08 AM
Hua Cai, editor of Chinese heavy metal magazine, Painkiller, talks to Cluas about catering to China's growing appetite for metal - and why his sales are best in north and cold Heilongjiang province
By mark_godfrey on 11/6/2007 12:22 AM
Based in rustic Yunnan province, the Tribal Moons has shown there’s plenty of work for a western band playing original blues and rock to far-flung southwestern China
By mark_godfrey on 11/5/2007 2:22 AM
China can be a cheap option for anyone buying - or making - a guitar
By mark_godfrey on 10/25/2007 4:43 AM
Peter Cusack's mix of marching, knife sharpening and newspaper sellers are some of the sounds the British musicologist collected in China's noisy capital
By mark_godfrey on 10/22/2007 6:16 AM
Great atmosphere, cheap tickets, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs... and a corporate presence that made it the dark horse favourite for festival of 2007 honours in the busiest year yet for Chinese rock fests