Blog Tag - Sound of the Xity

Breaking: Music Buffs Dismayed After Majority of Sound of the Xity Gets Scrapped
Bad news for Beijing music buffs: the sprawling, ambitious Sound of the Xity has been decimated this weekend. Instead of the slated seven shows over...
Noise Pollution: Sound of the Xity, Cold Neo Showcase, Alpine Decline Returns
[UPDATED: Friday Apr 13, 8pm] Alpine Decline's gig, despite being unrelated to Sound of the Xity, has moved to Fruity Space, as reverberations of...
Sainkho Namtschylak, The Hormones, and Yuck Among 47 Acts at This Year's Sound of the Xity (Apr 11-14)
Despite taking a big hit last year when the ‘don’t call us a festival or we’ll get in trouble’ Sound of the Xity was forced to move all of its acts...
Beijing's Music Scene in Peril Due to Viral Experimental "Fondle" Performance Piece
It seems when festival season pokes its hopeful little head, all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, into the spring abyss there’s always “something”...
Brace Yourself for Sound of the Xity, Music Festival and Conference Happening Apr 27 - May 2
While the poster might look like a photo straight out of a Hannibal Lecter cookbook, Sound of the Xity (Apr 27-May 2) is one of the biggest city-wide...
An Exclusive Q&A With TemTenPies
TenTemPies are an international collective of musicians who are about to kick out the Latin inspired reggae jams here in the capital this week....
We're very excited by some of the confirmations we got this week. Mostly the fact that it seems Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs guitarist Nick Zinner is going to...
Sound of the Xity: East Meets West on Sexy Posters
Last spring, I spent an evening pretending to pee in the urinals of every livehouse in Beijing. A friend of mine had asked me to be in a video he...