'alternative china' links to articles in english about the new music scenes springing up all over china. composed by australasian diy music specialist shaun/tenzenmen (http://www.tenzenmen.com)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Interview: Perpetual Motion Machine
I’ve only seen Perpetual Motion Machine three times now – and they are genuinely one of the most kickass underrated bands in town, whose high-octane new wave rock will get any crowd sweating beads within minutes. With an album out already, another one, “名利修罗场”available now for free download here, and countless fans elsewhere (they even have nifty t-shirts flying about town), its time we got to know theses homegrown Beijingers a bit more, 30 year old Baijin on vocals and guitar, Tianyang Lee, “the monkeyman”, also 30 on bass, and Jianxi Lee, “the sheep man”, 25, on drums. Here’s some of the highlights of our conversion we had on my green pristine (cough fake grass) rooftop a couple weeks back - oh, and be sure to catch them tomorrow, Wednesday, at Temple.
On The Scene: XP 01-07-2012
An afternoon rock session – yeah, XP’s new staple sounded fishy to me as well the first time I heard about it. But after a first tasting last weekend I’m dying for more – there’s just something about finding refuge from the wicked sun inside a cool, almost desolate bar, with true music lovers and bands who use the time to hone their sound as well as giving a fine show. This was case, as I stopped by to check out one of my new favorites bands in town, Perpetual Motion Machine, before heading back to reality.
