: Hang On The Box is an all female rock band formed in the summer of 1998 in Beijing China. At that time Vocalist Gia W (Wang Yue), guitarist Yang Fan, bass player Yilina and drummer Shenggy (Shen Jing) were only 15 years old.
One of the best and brightest bands to emerge from China's growing rock scene, Hang On The Box is wildly regarded as one of the most popular and well respect bands in Hong Kong/Taiwan/China Mainland. For the last two consecutive years (04 and 05), Hang On The Box is nominated as "The Best Rock Band" at the Chinese equivalent of the Grammy music award - The Annual Pepsi Music Award.
Unlike most of the Chinese rock bands, Hang On The Box not only toured in China/Hong Kong, but also in the US and Japan. They played at Lady Fest 03 in the US; and both SXSW and CMJ. They have also toured with Shonen Knife in both Japan and US; shared stages with acts like French Kicks, International Noise Conspiracy.among the others
After their second US tour in October 03, due to demand from the press, Hang On The Box was asked to tour the UK in the following month on a NME branded 4 group tour. Unfortunately they weren't able to get their Visas on time.
Hang On The Box's tight and extremely engaging stage performances has not only gained great reviews in the US/UK, but also help them build a solid fan base throughout China, Japan, US/UK.
Hang On The Box has done interviews and received great reviews from Wire, Q, IQ, Paper, Austin Chronicle, The Face (Japanese music mag), Womanrock.com and Cluas.com and many more.
Hang On The Box is also the first Chinese rock band to be featured on the cover of NEWSWEEK magazine.
Their fans include Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Marilyn Mason, Yeah Yeah Yeahs as well as famous Chinese stars Jackie Chan, Zi Yi Zhang and Gong Li , just to name a few. One of their tracks Di Di Di is currently on Jackie Chan's celebrity playlist on ITUNE.com. Marilyn Mason had been to more than one of their shows.
Hang On The Box has released two critically claimed albums Yellow Banana and Di Di Di by Japanese labels Benten and Bad News, and Chinese/Hong Kong labels Jingwen and Scream. A live album For Every Punk Bitch & Arsehole was released by Cherry Red UK in Oct 03. Their single I'm Sick appeared on a Japanese compilation CD In The Memory of Bruce Lee, and was released worldwide by JVC Japan in July 05.
Musically, Hang On The Box has evolved from a punk band to a band that plays diverse range of music. One could easily find traces of Psychedelic, New Wave, Electronica, even a dash of Hip-Hop in their recent work. The members have cultivated musical relationships with each other in various outfits. Lead singer Gia Wang is equipped with a unique anxious ESG like, not sweet, voice. Beneath the soars and stabs of her vocal exclamaton, Lina on bass, and Shenggy, on drums and percussion, construct entrancing scapes with a wide palette of sounds.
You can downloda them 3 albums in iTunes now
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You can now listen to new K-Jell songs at our myspace site. The songs are taken from the new K-Jell cd “refreshing power” which will be out in about 2 weeks time in China and Europe sometime during April 2009 on October Party Records.
Hope you will take 3-4 min to listen and let us know what you think, leave a comment in the comment section.
LES FAUVES new album "NALT.2 - Liquid Modernity" out on March 6th!!! Free preview of two tracks on our pages!
Further information about release party, tour, hot news and Les Fauves' showcase at SXSW (USA) (Habana Calle 6 Patio on Wednesday, March 18th) will be available soon!
MEHO PLAZA NOPSE REMIX EP (CASSETTE) OUT NOW ON ICK ICK RECORDS !!! 6 tracks___ available on cassette from ick ick records... will be available digitally soon, from better looking records... vinyl is in the works too from sp1records...........
K-Jell’s new cd/album will be out in China on October Party Records in Beijing/China in March 2009.
K-Jell will be on tour in China from the 3 of April – the 18 of April 2009. October Party Records in Beijing will be organizing the whole China tour for K-Jell.
Tell all your friends and fans in China that K-Jell is coming to rock the Chinese bones to the ground in April 2009.
To all Hang on the Box!: Merry Christmas from the USA - hope the band is doing great. I watched this video of "Harbin Snow & Ice Festival" in China... looks like fun! http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=VUz1CtLc_-8 But, very cold! You're a good band, have a great year of new music in 2009. Best from L.A. George "Ojisan"
First official CD release and first one featuring Lorenzo (Thanatologist , Nave , Entropic Degrade Behind Phylogeny) on vocals . Seven tracks of decayed and wrong industrial/noise/power electronics with brutal vocals in italian . Analogue and digital noise , various electronics , tape looping and much more . Quite a change from the past releases . A concept about the last years of Mirko Sartori , a reclusive mad man who lived with the mummified corpse of his mother Anna for three years in a little town in northern Italy , covering their apartment's walls with weird prayers and requests of help. Lyrics are nothing else than what he wrote on the walls . No changes or interpretations . Pure italian suburban depression , madness and void . Comes in japanese style pvc protection sleeve , full colour paper digipack , 8 page booklet featuring lyrics in italian and translation in english . Free Mirko/Anna badges with the first 100 copies ! Limited to 450 copies . Special asian edition of 50 copies on HIE Productions , Hong Kong (http://hk. geocities. com/hie_production).
Every time that we listen or write music... play an instrument... dance... act in a play... or work in some audio/image/video engineering process... Something is healing inside...
When we share it with friends... Something is healing all over...
(not that) New video (finally) out (4 months after the final cut). This time I bring you a full animated music video experiment, with a soundtrack by my shanghainese friends, IGO. Enjoy!
Hope you're well...just dropping by - doing a bit of myspace surfing. - everything looking good here...you have taste.
There's a fair bit of news from this side - the dark poets film 'Borderline' is being used in Beijing to promote the London 2012 olympics...so that's a bit of a coup. Also - the Gary Lucas Vs The Dark Poets album is doing well...We're currenlty underway with production of music videos - so watch this space! Judgement at Midnight is now officially the most downloaded tune from the some bizzare double album on iTunes.(and all other download sites including beatport, amazon mp3 etc etc)
Also - Gary Lucas has come out to show his political support - and guess who it is...check youtube. com for 'THE DUTELS' (Gary Lucas)
So If you havn't grabbed your copy or download already - make sure you check it out....please email us with regards your thoughts...
I hope things are good on your side of the screen
Things are good here - currently writing and recording new material - we'll let you know as soon as this new stuff surfaces...
either ways - hope you're well - take it easy
J
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