Recommended Perhaps it's the next big thing that everybody's talking about, or perhaps it's just serendipity, but I've bumped into a lot of coverage lately of the nascent Chinese rock music scene on NPR, in magazines, and on DVD . The coverage has been brief or peripheral though, so I was pleased to find a more sustained look at the scene in Beijing thanks to the recent direct-to-DVD release Sixteen Days in China - A Documentary By Martin Atkins . Atkins is a drummer of some renown in post-punk and industrial music circles for his work with Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Killing Joke, Pigface, and Brian Brain, but of late he's been increasingly known for his teaching and writing about the craft of touring, and for his work as a music producer and founder of the independent micro-label ... Read the entire review ...
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Recommended Perhaps it's the next big thing that everybody's talking about, or perhaps it's just serendipity, but I've bumped into a lot of coverage lately of the nascent Chinese rock music scene on NPR, in magazines, and on DVD . The coverage has been brief or peripheral though, so I was pleased to find a more sustained look at the scene in Beijing thanks to the recent direct-to-DVD release Sixteen Days in China - A Documentary By Martin Atkins . Atkins is a drummer of some renown in post-punk and industrial music circles for his work with Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Killing Joke, Pigface, and Brian Brain, but of late he's been increasingly known for his teaching and writing about the craft of touring, and for his work as a music producer and founder of the independent micro-label ... Read the entire review ...