Stay fresh, party people. We'll be right back. ...

Jonathan Alpart, who legitimately cares about Chinese music for Chinese music's sake, is the one-man driving force behind The Sound Stage, a bilingual show that spotlights local bands you might also care about. This week, he profiles Second Hand Rose, a musical favorite that's been around for 13 years and counting. "No other group blends Chinese elements and sounds with rock and roll music so seamlessly," A ...

What does a false start and a censor's curse get you? An opening that is kind of terrible. Django Unchained, after its premiere was unceremoniously pulled and indefinitely delayed last month, returned to mainland theaters on Sunday, five days after it was supposed to. It earned 3.7 million yuan. Not US dollars... yuan. ...

We can't say we'll always be with you, but we'll be here tomorrow. Till then, keep it real, party people. ...

Damn, it's nice outside today, eh? So happy to be stuck at a computer writing this! Anyways, so this sick, turbo awesome funk soul band called LMT Connection snuck into Temple bar last night to kick off their China tour -- it's the "Great Wall of Funk Tour," of course -- and the three-piece is traveling back and forth between Beijing and Shanghai and a few outlying neighboring cities spreading the word. The ...

May just feels... different, doesn't it? Let the good times overcome. ...

Hello Beijing Cream readers. My name is Josh and I work at this other website called Smart Beijing, where I write tl;dr music articles on a weekly basis. The Tao is outsourcing these Friday Musical Outros to my comrade Morgan, but he's busy preparing for his simultaneous DJ sets at Dada and Temple tomorrow night, so he passed the buck to me. Today's video is kind of a cheat. A teaser, you might say. Tomorro ...

Chinese product placements, superfluous scenes with Fan Bingbing, inflated ticket prices... what did all of that get Iron Man 3's much anticipated debut in China this week? Only every record in the books. "Disney is confirming that Iron Man 3 broke every opening day record in China's box office," according to BoxOffice.com. "The official figure is currently $18,657,142 but it is expected rise to $21.5 milli ...

Many fans of Chinese rock music have heard of the band Rustic, the members of which became stars on the scene only a few years ago when they unexpectedly won the Global Battle of the Bands competition in London. They play a catchy blend of cock rock and old-school punk, and their show antics make them one of the must-see acts in Beijing, even if it's just to see them act like wankers. Surely a lot has been ...

Unemployed Donald Mahoney, 28 or so, went to the Shanghai marriage market to get a spouse, which he needed "yesterday." You are sexually irresistable, he was told, but that -- along with his ability to do pushups -- was not enough to attract the attention of those with eligible daughters. A different ploy was needed... ...

Go all the way, friends. We'll see you on the other side. ...

With all the festivals and hoopla and blah, blah, blah going on, this might be flying under your radar. It shouldn't. You should go. And you've got two chances on it so don't mess it up! So yeah. Tonight at Temple and tomorrow night at Zajia Lab, the good-time punks of Genjing Records are hosting record release concerts for their latest release, Music for Advertisements by Li Daiguo. That's him in the video ...

The good times are just around the bend. We'll be here for 'em. ...

Donnie, if you couldn't tell, is from Boston, and in the wake of this past week's events, he's got a few things to say about his hometown... while wearing a Larry Legend jersey... taking down LeBron James posters from Dunkin Donuts... showering with a duck. It's heartfelt. ...

Formed out of East LA in 2010, Alpine Decline vanished from the US music scene nearly as quickly as they materialized, only to surface in East Beijing. These guys are playing tomorrow at XP alongside Streets Kill Strange Animals and The Last Three Minutes as part of Genjing Records's film and music night to celebrate Record Store Day. 8-10 pm, 40 rmb for the show. ...

Psy unveiled his newest single, "Gentleman," at midnight on Thursday, then christened it on Saturday at a solo concert at Seoul's World Cup stadium in front of 50,000 fans. That should tell you exactly how worried the people of South Korea are about its neighbor's threats, and offers more context for the phrase "heightened tension." Before the concert, Psy, i.e. Park Jae-sang, was asked about the situation ...

DJ Spenny is kind of a big deal in Shanghai, a notorious expat, as it were. Even more so than Donnie? See for yourself. ...

Stay hale and hearty, friends. We'll be back tomorrow. ...

Long time no see, Beijing Creamers. Hope you all had a nice holiday last week. Yep. Welp. Weather is nicer, festival season approaching, lots of interesting and wonderful bands and bullshit coming to Beijing soon, blah, blah, blah. Zzzzzzz. God, who can even muster the energy anymore, eh! So, um… yeah. Here's another Chinese punk band for you to get into. Another bunch of reprobate Chinese kids playing that ...

I’m imagining myself walking a fictional waterside street in my hometown of Seattle, Washington. I pass a pregnant Chinese woman, a plethora of designer handbags laid before her on a table. “Sale! Sale!” the woman is shouting. What do I think of this woman? What assumptions do I make about her life in China and her journey to America? What do I think of her after learning she is in the country to give birth ...