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Tune in: Carsick Cars

By Cankles | Published: April 28, 2009
Carsick Cars are one of the coolest indie bands I’ve heard since being in China. Their first album I downloaded via Google Music for free (and legally in China). This video below is the new single called Mogu, Mogu. I somehow don’t think they are singing about the Mogu (mushroom) to be bought at the [...]
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Embed and share Google Music playlists

By Cankles | Published: April 7, 2009
The big music news in China last week was the launch of Google Music – a free service allowing users in the mainland to download or stream more than a million licensed songs. Yes, you heard that right – FREE. Finding FREE MP3s to stream and download isn’t exactly news, right? The difference here is [...]
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Neocha – indie music from China

By Cankles | Published: April 7, 2009
News Corp’s MySpace might be the place for bands to promote themselves in the US and other english-speaking countries but it hasn’t taken off in the middle kingdom. In fact,David Feng posted earlier this year that the MySpace team in China has recently been culled. Inside the firewall other options exist for bands to upload [...]
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Tune in: Beijing’s underground music scene

By Cankles | Published: March 23, 2009
I’ve recently been tuning into local Chinese sites like NeoCha to listen to bands from Shanghai and China and found some really cool gems. I’ll share some of these later – when 9-5 work isn’t so pressing. But for now, sit back, relax, and watch this video on China’s underground rock scene by CNN. It’s [...]
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