As part of the BBC's Chinese New Year coverage, Mary Ann Hobbs speaks to Maybe Mars founder Michael Pettis about the development of the Chinese music scene.
Director Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) has created a beautiful new MV for Dear Eloise after meeting the duo on a recent trip to Beijing. Filmed in Harvard…
MAYBE MARS & FAR OUT DISTANT SOUND PRESENT: MAYBE MARS LABEL SHOWCASE TOUR Featuring Carsick Cars, Birdstriking and White+ plus Art Exhibition and Film Screening China’s leading purveyors of alternative…
All photos by Jiang Mengyang (Gates To The Other Side/ Free Sex Shop)
Future Orients bring their calculated intensity for a strong set at School Bar Beijing.
Chinese indie rock groups Carsick Cars, Chui Wan, and Alpine Decline will be headlining a series of dates throughout the United States for the only 2016 North American tour dates for Maybe Mars Records. Beginning with Chui…
Originally published on Genjing Records "I’ve had Rio de Janeiro-based artist NEGRO LEO on almost constant rotation ever since I was tasked with writing up his recent Genjing split 7″ with Shanghai duo Little Monster.…
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have recently released the music video for the track ‘Bird Is Flying’, directed by Alessio Avezzano. It’s chock-a-block full of shaky, blurry, disorientating closeups – making for an entrancing music video.
We got the chance to chat with Alessio, to get to know a little bit more about his work, and the making of the wicked music video. Enjoy!
Originally published on Genjing Records If you’ve been checking out our site recently I’m sure you’re now well aware, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are releasing their first long player…
Originally posted on Genjing Records In anticipation of the release of our newest and ever expanding cavalcade of full length 12” records, in this case, A Million Farewells, by Tom…
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No good band is created in a single day – well, some are; very, very few, but anyway…each group experiences the ups and downs of development. MeToo is no different. Founded in 2007, the band has been at it for eight sordid years; countless shifts in practice spaces as well as personnel and the general, problematic whatnots of being a band on the rise in China. For a bit more perspective on all of the aforementioned development and strife that goes into being a seasoned artisanal unit, let’s take a photographic look back at the history of this incredibly resilient band, who borderline improbable, considering their lineage within the scope of the scene, just released their first piece of proper physical material, like, full stop.
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Let’s cut to the chase here, Beijing duo, After Argument’s This Is Not Your Game is a whopper of an LP. As stated before, we don’t have favorites from our catalog, per say, but this one most certainly gets a lot of spins around the office and for good reason. It’s badass, repetitious (in a good way) faultless post-punk experimentalism. Perhaps we’re a smidge bias, but it honestly might well be one of the best guitar/drums records to make it’s way out of the PRC. Part of the allure of the album is the provocative image which adorns its cover: a photo of a (presumably) insecure child hiding behind a curtain door. It’s a photograph one can’t help but study over and over whilst the 12” does its 33RPM thing atop a turntable.
The photographer who took the shot was none other than Brazilian, Tanara Stuermer, an art history graduate who focused on the arrival of photography in Brazil in 19th century during her school days. Post university, Tanara began to roam the streets and alleyways of New York, then cities around Europe, documenting the world in her own way. From her black and white photos, you can feel a sense of inexplicable melancholy hiding beneath the surface of her subject matter. It’s a feeling that is not obvious but is always present. An overt study in subtlety, if you will.
Recently, we had a chance to speak with Tanara about all manner of stuff, including, naturally the After Argument album which drew her to our attention.
Originally published on Genjing Records If you’ve been hanging out here in our little corner of the interwebs, you’ve most likely noticed that Genjing is gearing up to drop Beijing…