Chengdu Living

Last weekend Chengdu hosted dozens of bands and thousands of patrons at the Big Love music festival. But was it all love?

After a year of absence, Chengdu’s best club is back. Xiong Mao has just opened in the newly constructed Chengdu East Music Park and brings a lot of promise with it.

On the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, celebration and patriotic songs engulfed all of China. Here are some highlights from the last few days gathered from the Chinese internet.

Want to know what the biggest music event of the year in Chengdu was like? Experience it through 60+ photos right here.

Tomorrow night Disco Death in Chengdu will host a member of China’s performing elite: DJ Blaise. I took the opportunity to write a few words about the event and why I’m excited about this one in particular.

For the first time ever, two Chinese “singers” have been fined for lip synching after a Chengdu concert, but what does it mean?

Last summer in Chengdu tens of thousands of music fans came from near and far to attend the Zebra Music Festival (ZMF, or 热拨音乐节) in Chengdu. This year, they’re continuing the tradition. The five most common questions about Zebra answered inside. We have the full lineup, too.

“Fu” is an old friend and old school Chengdu local – somewhere north of 40 years old, and an encyclopedia of avant garde Chinese music and traditional Sichuan customs. He’s recently relocated his business, an art and music shop, to the Yulin neighborhood in Chengdu.