Music Phew… Tokyo Police Club Finishes 10 Covers Songs in 10 Days (From the past 10 Years), Vacation Ensues

September 6, 2011 - 4:22 am

Tokyo Police Club have just finished a marathon. Well, not literally. They did not run 26.2 miles but what they did do was successfully record 10 covers songs in 10 days (from the past 10 years). Quite a project if you can imagine the amount of work that goes into learning each song, re-creating it in your own manner, getting stuff to sound good, getting good takes, mixing, mastering… To put it plainly, these guys have just completed “the impossible.” If you ask me, TPC, the engineers at Red Bull Studios and everyone involved with the project deserves a vacation, or at least a couple days to basque in the glory of their achievement.

If you’ve been following along here on ChinaShop, you know that we’ve been with them each step of the journey, sharing the fruits of their labor with you each day at 10 am. And now that the ride is over and the journey complete, you can sit back, relax, and enjoy all 10 songs in one place, along with some ChinaShop exclusive pix of the boys in and around the studio working hard, and blowing off some much needed steam.

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Gallery Music HARD or BUST

August 9, 2011 - 11:33 am

If this year’s HARD Summer Festival theme had to be summed up in one word, it would have to be “naked.” On Saturday, the celebrated electronic music festival brought thousands of music lovers to Los Angeles’s Downtown Historic Park for the sold out music fest. Swarms of festival goers arrived in their rave-worthy best; dressed in the smallest amount of clothing they could get by in without earning them a police record.

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Gallery Music Hungry for seconds? PB & J Double Up at the El Rey

May 18, 2011 - 11:32 am

Los Angeles residents love their Peter Bjorn and John – so much so that the Swedish indie rock trio was able to pull off two shows at the El Rey in one night, selling out the first. May 14th’s early set brought a flood of excited fans into the venue as soon as the doors opened.

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