They'll be Beijing's biggest rock visitors in 2009, but the Britpoppers shouldn't expect too much box office in China

Venture capital is pouring nicely into China’s music scene. See Chinese ringtones specialists Hurray earlier this year spending US$3 million on a 61% stake in Taiwan's Seed Music Group Limited. But will those big deals stop, now that pension funds won’t be so easy to hand cash over to the VCs? The man who knows a lot about these things, Ed Peto runs events managers Red T Music and writes a fine blog, OutIndustry.

Heck, in researching this blog I've gotten bogged down in the other blogs out there on the China music scene. I like both http://www.music2dot0.com/ and China Music Radar. There are others out there too, mostly started by foreigners living in China. The best English-language blog written by a local Chinese fan - and likely the best of all the blogs on Chinese rock, Rock In China.

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Queen Sea big shark, lovely pace with Where Are all the passengers until we suddenly move up a serious change of gear and tempo. My new favourite China sound is the The Guai, listened to at Yugong Yishan the other night. I’ve been looking for them online.

The Penghao theatre was badly needed on Beijing top-down and sterile theatre scene. Bands are also using the venue

Filipino musicians are multilingual musical bridges for hoteliers and bars in China

Do harder times mean the return of knock-off goods to China's streets? 

Local rock label Pilot Records is upping the ante for 2009 with new records and some big-name gigs

A promising platform for Chinese music, art fans seems to be taking more inspiration from Facebook

The Australian queen of re-invention brought out the crowd, though venue and Chinese security weren't suited to her sweaty pop

Business is bad for Chinese factories making CDs, stereos for Western brands