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PANGBIANR: interview with Yang Haisong
SOURCE: http://pangbianr.com/yang-haisong-interview/
This is a guest contribution from Australian music writer Bob Blunt. Bob has been based in Beijing for more than 2 years. Prior to that he published Blunt: A Biased History of Australian Rock.
P.K.14 live in Texas (image courtesy Charles Saliba/Maybe Mars)
If 2010 on a local front seemed a quiet year for the P.K.14 camp with just 3-4 shows, then there sure was some momentum built abroad. The band very much became internationalists last year with welcomed invitations to two internationally renowned music festivals: South by Southwest in March in Texas USA, and the Melbourne Festival in Australia in October. As we all know, part of supposedly cutting your teeth on the global stage requires being hauled into a festival or two, alongside bands from all over the world, and if that means getting a chance to heat the boards for Low from the States, or The Drones from Australia, it’s an invitation to not shrug your shoulders at. I reflected about that and other stuff with the band’s front person Yang Haisong over a coffee recently.
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From JINGWEIR zine issue #3, available for free in PDF:
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interview with Shanghai’s PAIRS from issue #3 of the JINGWEIR zine, scans of issues 1-3 are all available for free download in PDF
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jingweir interview with skip skip ben ben, taken from issue 3, issues 1-3 can all be downloaded in pdf form for free here:
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from JINGWEIR zine issue #2, PDF downloadable here: http://www.keepandshare.com/doc/3664463/jingweir-issue-2-mar-2012-pdf-march-12-2012-12-37-pm-4-2-meg?da=y
Alpine Decline:http://alpinedecline.com/#alpine_declinehttp://site.douban.com/alpinedecline/](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3wov1EpSq1r5lablo1_1280.jpg)
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ROCK IN CHINA: interview with 1724 records
ROCK IN CHINA:The Beijing Post-Rock compilation released by 1724 Records caught our eye a couple of weeks ago. And as I started to dig deeper into the post rock scene of China, I noticed that 1724 Records is quite active on Last.fm and the owner Road End is a user there. For the record, 1724 has reached over 2500 listeners with 24 thousand scrobbels. Put that in comparison with Maybe Mars Last.fm power of 8000 listeners and 100 thousand scrobbels and you will realize that 1724 has an enormous reach in the overseas market.
As such, I contacted Road End, whose real name is Niu Lei and interviewed him with our basic questionaire to bring light into the dark. Niu Lei had responded in Chinese and a dear friend of his helped with the translation. In between the answers you will find music sniplets of 1724 Records and the corresponding record cover.
