酒后开车

在城市与乡村的交界处有一片小树林，年轻人经常来这里举行露天派对。这天，一群小伙子聚在这里一边喝啤酒，一边放着摇滚乐跳舞。正在兴头上时，突然下起了倾盆大雨，马修和吉米赶紧钻进车里，朝着公路的方向开去。     

Rock Chic in Chengdu

The dynamo behind the Little Bar in Chengdu talks about expansion plans, Cui Jian and making independent rock records in China's southwest.     

Signed Up

ROCK music doesn't rock China. And making money from rock music is no mean feat in a land plagued with music pirates. Still, since its founding in December 1997, Modern Sky, the largest music indielabel in China, has published over 50 albums, making it the most prodigious recorder of indie music in China. With two dozen artists on its books the label releases 20 albums a year. Margins on album sales remain wa-     

Stoned Rosy in Beijing

JAWS dropped when the bill wasannounced mid-August.Howdid the organizers of the newly-sprung Beijing Pop Festival landone of Britain's biggest rocknames for its first edition?Still more sur-prising,Ian Brown would be coming toChina barely a week after he'd releasedhis latest album,Greatest,a time usuallytaken up with press conferences.Brown actually chose Beijing overthe promotional rounds of European ra-dio and television stations.The day-longevent he headlined at Chaoyang Parkon Septe…     

King of Rock and Roll

The brains behind the Beijing Pop Festival, Ja- son Magnus talks about getting Sebastian Bach and Placebo to play China's only international rock festival. W E had a thousand security offi cers last year and 600 this year.” That’s progress for Jason Magnus. It’s also a sign of how far government relations can take a rock promoter who has managed to bring some of the biggest names in popular music to a park in the most raref ied district of the Chinese capital for the Beijing Pop Festi…     

No Shrinking Violet

Second Hand Roses 'founder and front man Liang Long talks about Nirvana, Nietzche and why he started wearing drag on stage.     

No Mariachi Man

Young Mexican master guitarist Francisco Bibriesca wows Beijing afficionados and looks for local tunes. CHEN Lu was top of the queue when the doors opened. "It's not often a guitar genius comes to town," said the 22-year-old guitarist who wore a faded Jimi Hendrix T-shirt, an acoustic guitar slung across his back. The last time he'd been this excited, he said, was when legendary rock guitarist Joe Satriani put on a master class act in Beijing last May.     

老曹酷评

@程鹤麟:好多朋友问,为何只有凤凰卫视记者跟随保钓船采访呢?启丰号出发前,曾邀请媒体随船采访,仅凤凰一家表示有兴趣。为何其他媒体都不感兴趣呢?因为媒体普遍认为,启丰号根本到不了公     

音乐节的账单

鲜花、美酒、帅哥、靓女、贝斯、吉他、轰隆隆的音乐,兴奋时偶尔被抛向空中的美女,觥筹交错间时不时来上两嗓子的激情,音乐节满足了多数人对于摇滚乐的想象。也许这不单单只是一场音乐的盛会,更是一个释放心情的舞台。10年前,音乐节可能还是一个新事物,但是今天,音乐节已经家喻户晓。