I’ve heard of Super Junior for a while but had avoided listening to their music until recently. Super Junior is a Korean pop group, is comprised of about 15 dudes. They seem to be in some kind of sub-teen market, if that makes sense. I can’t imagine someone over the age of 16 enjoying them at all. […]

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I’ve had a couple Japanese/Korean girl pop ideas floating around this week and now a third demands I put them all in a post. First off, The Wondergirls released a new single this week and in my humble opinion it’s pretty great. Catchy song, a good, kinda funny video (MV) and even the dance is kind […]

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If you grew up mostly in the 80s Pink Floyd may have come and gone without getting much of a chance to rest in your brain like it should have. You might have seen older brothers or uncles with Dark Side of the Moon T-shirts, gotten tired of hearing “Money” played ad nauseum on classic […]

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Kind of an interesting trend revealing itself in Korea, which is a pop fascination with the idea of older women hooking up with younger men. This jumped out at me recently with the popularity of the latest boy band called SHINee, who have a little sub-Usher come Rain (비) ditty called “Older sister you’re so pretty” […]

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I doubt there are many people that know or care that Randy Newman has a new album out. Surely he’s aware of that fact as well. But he’s popped up — amidst a little controversy — on a couple of my regular Korean/Asian blog stops due to one of the songs on the album called “Korean […]

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Two very different kinds of explosions, both carefully crafted and fitted for media consumption. First is the demolition of the Yongbyon Cooling Tower in North Korea, which, I guess is supposed to mean to someone somewhere that North Korea no longer has nuclear capability.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3UnhTDuQQc

Wow. I guess that’s a wrap, eh?
Or, um, maybe not. From the World […]

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DMC, formerly of the group Run DMC, is apparently in Seoul to preform at a concert. While giving a press-conference he was, of course, asked about his feelings about the South Korean/U.S. beef controversy.
According to the Metropolitician, a bilingual blogger who was covering the press-conference, DMC first indicated he had no idea what the press […]

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Here’s a little documentary about graffiti artists in Shanghai. Some interesting ideas and interviews here. Three artists are profiled — Popil, Zhang Lan (AKA: Mr. Lan), and HKer, each with their own individual perspective and style. Nice music performance at the end as well.
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0kAPr9R–I

(via Danwei)

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Article of the week here, although I guess it’s technically a blog posting. This comes from Danwei (written by Peter Micic) about what’s behind that melodic phrase that’s come to represent “Asia” or “The Orient,” in popular music (amongst other forms of entertainment).
His base example is found is this familiar diddy by Carl Douglas — […]

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The Candies were a Japanese pop group during the 1970s. I’d never heard of them until I saw this post on Japundit, but I really like this kind of thing, so I poked around, found some videos, and away we go. I need to make a point of doing posts like this more often, especially […]

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My earliest conscious memory of Korea was in 1982, when the Korean boxer Kim Duk-Koo fell into a coma after being knocked out my Ray Mancini. Kim died five days later. I was a kid at the time and remember being startled by the idea of someone dying while playing some kind of sport.
I was […]

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I’ll admit, I’ve always been one of those idiots into girls that play instruments in bands. Drummers? Don’t get me started. Cute Chinese girls playing drums? I’d better stop writing and start linking.
This is a clip by Sexy Beijing, which isn’t a porn site, but a more of a documentary production company run by an expat in China, […]

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Bjork ruffled some feathers last night at the conclusion of her first and likely last concert in China (at the Shanghai International Gymnastics Centre) n she shouted out “Tibet! Tibet! Tibet!” as the music was winding down at the end of the performance. Here’s the vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEUFCK1qBMI

More than anything I’d like to direct you to both […]

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There are a few ways to interpret the following story:
a. Korean teenage girls are insane
b. Korean parents foster a strong culture of political protest
c. This band is hot and well-worth the trouble
At the risk of sounding uncouth I’m leaning toward choice A. The above photo is a demonstration undertaken by an estimated 700-1500 E.L.F. (EverLasting […]

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One thing I’ve always appreciated about Philadelphia’s Bardo Pond is its utter lack of pretension. BP plays guitar music that people like to accentuate with all sorts of descriptions — noise, space rock, acid rock, post-rock, experimental — but this is guitar rock in the truest sense. This is more like Pink Floyd or Spacemen […]

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If you think you’re going to make money off music in China — think again my friend. Talk about beating your head against a wall.
This piece comes from a UK source, The Register, and is written by Ed Peto. It’a fascinating look at the music industry in China, a country with 1.3 billion people, but […]

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I’m sure everyone is wondering what music the guy who writes for the mostly Asian baseball blog is listening to. Well, without getting too far into some list of hundreds of records that no one will remember a year from now, here’s a song from one album I listened to all the dimdamn year.

Great cover, no? Some […]

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Some good stuff from a band called ReTROS, from Beijing. Sounds like a cross between Joy Division and the B-52s. 
Title of the song is “TV Show (Hang the Police)”
The images in the video are compelling, which comes out in the music. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APpmRDHOfbs

(Via Far Eastern Audio Review)

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My friend Christen owns this button compnay Busy Beaver. They make buttons, as in badges. One inch buttons. Not coat or shirt buttons. Fashion buttons. Mostly for bands. She’s been at it nearly 10 years.
I asked if she’d send me a recent and relevant design to post on East Windup Chronicle.
Here tis:

Wow, Damo Suzuki! What […]

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Not really, but that’s the tittle of this funny short filmed in a remote Chinese village in Inner Mongolia for Nokia’s Chinese Web site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5OijQOPek

(via Danwei)

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