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Just saw these photos posted by Schrödinger’s Cat 薛丁格的貓. They have a new ep coming and they play at Riverside Music Cafe tomorrow night with 徐行 Cruising. If you’ll recall, they were a 6-piece band with female vocals (張郁平 Yu Ping Chang) and 愛莉鵝 Ariel Lee on keys/violin. Now the girls are literally out of the picture, and the band […]
怕胖團 Pa Pun played a semi-unplugged set at Moon Romantic, part of a second-hand market + music show. It was a 2-day event called Freak’s Market, put on by Door Cat Records. (a few bands played each day)
I think this song is gonna be on the new Pa Pun album. There are clips of them trying to record the vocals for this at fb. (Punk rock looks so easy on stage, LOL)
江婕羽 YT channel has the full set, plus clips from some of the other bands. Here’s a cute song from 小捲+泰泰 of Tomodachi 偷摸大雞 樂團:
Tomodachi have not been very active lately, I’m not seeing any full band gigs from them since December.
As long as we’re mentioning Cherie Ko’s myriad activities (see previous post), let’s hear a gorgeous cover of a Faye Wong classic!
As I recall, singing in Chinese was a rarity for her; most of her covers are American/British indie rock and shoegaze/dreampop.
iNCH Chua, this is a killer tune! =D
“Excited to share that #letterstoubin will be finally available worldwide on 2nd Sept! #mousedeer”
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imaginadia: Kyogg at No Black Tie, KL. July 31st 2016. Kyogg Description from their bandcamp: Kyogg is a “long distance band” comprised of KL based Fahmi and Tokyo based Kimal. Genre: indie rock electro pop psychedelia This song is from their s/t release that came out in April of this year:
1724:
After a long time conversation,we’ll start one step of our 10 years anniversary:I found a designer who will help us to design a T-shirt in limitation.Yes,only a T-shirt.But the plan of anniversary have more possibilities.I hope!
Let’s celebrate the 1724 anniversary with a 文雀 Sparrow set from late 2014:
FireLiu YT channel is bursting with high-quality full set videos. Whatever camera/gear he uses, it can certainly withstand the sound pressure levels of a rock show. Liu, share your secrets with the TW uploaders! =D
麋先生 Mixer earlier today at Super Slippa. These guys are always impressive, one of TW’s strongest bands! =D
alicewu79111 has 5 clips uploaded so far, looks like 7 songs in all. The band played a couple of new tunes.
Singapore alt-rockers Anna Judge April in Playtime Festival in Mongolia last month. =D
In December, singer Vel announced she was leaving the band, but there she is. The band announced the bass player Ash is leaving the band a couple of weeks ago. ??
Good Beer, 週休八日 My 8 Day Weekend, and FranFran Chen?
YES, PLEASE! =D
Interesting that guitarist 江鎮宇 is not present. (Both he and Fran are in Frandé 法蘭黛樂團) 江鎮宇 is still listed as a member of My 8 Day Weekend. We’ve seen musicians missing from certain gigs because they are busy with another band on the same day, but obviously there was no conflict with a Frandé gig.
Kane Wu YT has the full set uploaded, 6 clips in all. Mumu is playing her acoustic gtr in all of the other songs.
旺福 WonFu was there, too:
They look about ready to keel over from the heat, but they sound great! 不是桃樂絲 I’m Not Dorothy at Wake Up Festival. =D
The uploader also had a few clips from 廖文強 Wen Chiang Liao and Bad Nerves Band, I had no idea OmOi (P!SCO) was playing bass with these guys:
Reading on fb that OmOi was special guest for that gig. She also played with The eXtensions and P!SCO that weekend. busybusybusy!
Good, good, good, good vibraphones: Yuhan Su Jazz Quintet: Mythology at Flushing Town Hall in Queens, NY, on August 12.
More about Yuhan Su 蘇郁涵 in this 2015 interview with SinoVision English:
百合花 have been regularly re-posting their old songs to fb recently. If you’re like me and just became aware of them this year, this is a great chance to get to know them in depth. =D
And Shortwave (formerly known as Little Forktail 小剪尾樂團) just posted a new demo today, check it out!
Not sure why they had stopped posting, but Rooftop Audio/Yuchain Wang are very busy lately! We told you about the DeerMx recording sessions, but other projects are in progress from 記號士 The Sign Of Human, 南瓜妮歌迷俱樂部 PUMPKINney Fan Club, 老貓偵探社Cat Detective Agency, and Pilots In The Sky And On The Sea 旅人.
Pilots went dark for quite awhile, but they poked their heads up to say they were still alive in May, and then they posted “新的我們，six legged wolf” in June. So I guess that’s their new logo? Anyway, let’s recall their epic sound from the 2014 ep, Half-naked journey.
Pry open your wallet and go buy that 3 song release for $3. at bandcamp! =D
詹森淮 Senhuai Jan just linked to this: A new song from Faye Wong 王菲?! And a new facebook page: Faye Wong’s Era
This YT channel (Faye Wong’s Era Faye Wong’s Era) may be fairly recent, and it may not be an official channel, but it also has lots of old content, plus some of Leah Dou’s stuff. (Leah is Faye’s daughter)
Always a treat to hear Faye, especially matched with this modern electro/acoustic-ambient music from songwriter/producer 张亚东. (they’ve worked together extensively in the past). So gorgeous! =D
Emily 卜星慧 selected her little backpacker guitar and took a ride for Yuran TV 樂人 x Volkswagen. =D
At the end of the clip you can see they also filmed her playing the song up against the car.
Her Music tour upcoming shows:
8/4 Chengdu 成都@小酒館 紅 April Red、 卜星慧、 23號半+ 珂瀾Kelan(成都)
http://www.showstart.com/event/11918
8/6 Hong Kong 香港@Hidden agenda 紅April Red、卜星慧、23號半+ GDJYB 雞蛋蒸肉餅(香港)+ 日月系
http://www.ticketflap.com/hertour
Check out 甜約翰 Sweet John. I think they just formed this year, with 浚瑋 Genie Wu-voc, *Mandark Ravel 梁丹郡 (fr. I Mean Us)-keys/voc, 罐頭-gtr, 阿獎-bass, 小J-drums. According to Blow-StreetVoice, they used to be called 前身為 Natural Outcome 樂團
Love the m/f vocal mix on this, and the song rocks in an understated way, with power from the rhythm section and finesse in the chords & melodies. =D
*If you have been paying attention, you’ve noticed that this is another project involving Mandark. See our recent features HERE and HERE.
Follow the clip back to YT to hear 3 more demos from 甜約翰 SweetJohn
香蕉小姐 Miss Banana The footage is from this past weekend at Ho-Hai-Yan fest., but the audio sounds like a studio recording. I like it! Peppy, yet slightly dramatic, reminds me of their song 於是我看見飛船 (Then I Saw The Spaceship) from a few years ago. (Go listen to that if you get a chance) =D
Hear acoustic versions of 2 songs from the next Manic Sheep album over at Redbull TW Music. =D
And the band announced they’ll will be going to Thailand for POW! FEST # 2 in September:
“The coolest music mini fest in Thailand!!! 17th September 2016 @ Rockademy Thailand” Hosted by Seen Scene Space. Looks like that fb is going to profile all of the acts leading up to the fest.
f yeah chinese indie tumblr 