MP3 Monday: Modern Sky Festival
By Morgan Short, Sep 22nd, 2008 | In Nightlife
MP3 Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column, serving up mp3s from bands living and making music in China. Right click on the links and choose "Save As..." to download 'em. Click play to rock 'em.
So I guess this holiday is coming up and you should be getting your vacation plans in order. Perhaps you will be going to Beijing, yes? Maybe even going to this Modern Sky Festival?
In case you haven't heard about it, the Modern Sky Festival is a three-day rock festival (Sept 30-Oct 2) featuring Chinese bands organized by Beijing record label extraordinaire Modern Sky. Have a look at the poster up there to see who is playing. There's DJs performing as well, if that's more your thing. Shanghai acts are on there too -- Island 33, Cold Fairyland, and Top Floor Circus -- and you might recognize a few of those DJs. Whose this Ozone character? R3? Seems familiar.
Anyways, you could do worse than to spend you vacay in Beijing at this thing and here are three MP3s from three of the better bands on that bill: Re-TROs, SUBS, and Hedgehog. These are older songs, each having withstood the test of time on my mp3 player -- so you know its all cream of the crop stuff here.
Enjoy!
Re-TROS - A Death-Bed Song
SUBS - Brother
Hedgehog ¨C Pumpkin
Click on the bands to be redirected to their MySpace pages: Re-TROS, SUBS, Hedgehog. For more info on the Modern Sky Festival, check out their webpage here.
Also, if you want to catch the Shanghai-based bands that will be appearing at Modern Sky, Yuyintang is hosting a special concert with all three -- 33 Island, Cold Fairyland, and Top Floor Circus this Thursday at 9pm. Cover: 40rmb. Neat-O.
Hassle free ticket purchasing and delivery for Shanghai's cultural and concert events:
No comments yet
Please sign in or register to comment