Huanyin, Andybest. Indeed.
So. Poor Jake has no life right now for various reasons and I'm going to start up some extra posts like I used to do. This is the reporting on other music writing around the Shanghai scene blogs type thing.
Firstly Douban. We've been talking a lot about Douban lately and how it's like Facebook or Kaixin but with no annoying apps and has feeds for your bands and books and movies etc.
So logged in just now to see it has adopted a Facebook style combined feed frontpage. That's it on the picture. It's good. It will always be good because all the items are related to music, bands, books and films. They have added something new though, a kind of status update like on regular social sites. The new look is fine - but I hope it's not a precursor to it adding happy lobotomy Happy Farm games and stuff like that.
Elsewhere.
Dan Shapiro is still flying the flag at City Weekend, trying to keep some kind of interest going there. Lately on his blog we've had an informative post on the city's recording studios, a review of the BCR CD and a preview of the upcoming Jue Festival.
Zack Smith is still plugging away in a lonely room at Layabozi. Lately he's written something about us, thanks. Check his weekend picks too.
China Music Radar are still wound up about festival organizers just plain lying about their line ups at official press conferences. I would be too, read it, it's outrageous. Now the CMR people are aware of this they find it happening all over the shop. Check out the latest installment.
Finally, Adam over at Luwan Rock notes that post-rockers Hualun are in town to do some recording. Read about that here.
Lonely room? You must have forgotten about the world-famous Layabozi Dancers.
Ahem.
The secrets out on how we bloggers roll. These days I don't write a post until one of my entourage has wiped the powders off my keyboard with a spare 100 dollar bill.
So that's how you post so much. You're on the Peruvian Marching Powder.
Our podcast studio is modeled on various scenes from Scarface.
中文不错。But "huanying" not "huanyin" in hanyupinyin, haha!