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Reconnaissance Man: Damon Albarn’s Musical Explorations

In a downtown Toronto park, Damon Albarn is discussing the finer points of composing a Chinese opera when a black squirrel snares his attention. “Do you know we’re eating squirrels...”  read more

Yan Lianke (Trans. Julia Lovell)

What could be a bigger turn-on...  read more

Abigail Washburn tour diary - Regina to China and Somewhere in the Middle

* Note: "Regina" is pronounced "rah-gina." The town slogan is “Regina rhymes with fun.” We started at 4 a.m. yesterday from the Ramada in Regina, Canada. First layover in Minneapolis for eight hours, then Tokyo, then Beijing. Just arrived in our Beijing digs. Sitting on a high floor of Oakwood Apartments near Beijing’s third ring road at the airport expressway exit. The view out the window is of other newly built residential towers just like this one, and a neon-bannered restaurant of food in the Xiamen style that the receptionists says is “hai keyi” (translation: "it’s ok") with a smirk...  read more

Catching Up With... Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet

Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet debuted earlier this year with a self-titled album that gorgeously fuses Chinese folk, American old-time music, jazz, bluegrass and more. Given the quartet’s involvement with music in China...  read more