Tag Archives: vanaprasta

Gallery Music Search and Destroy: Linda Perry’s Deep Dark Robot

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing
April 27, 2011 - 11:35 am

After an intriguing interview with Linda Perry back in January, we’ve been looking forward to seeing what Deep Dark Robot is all about. Perry’s new collaboration with Fasto Jeston drummer Tony Tornay has peaked the curiosity of everyone, from the slew of platinum selling popstars she’s collaborated with to music industry aficionados.

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Event How To Survive in Austin, ChinaShop Style

by Rich Thomas and Dustin Downing
March 17, 2011 - 3:53 pm

Where are the roadies!!!!! SWSW 2011

Here in Austin, there’s just as much good stuff happening on the street corners and outside of venues as there is on the inside. From dawn to dusk and beyond, it’s nothing but end-to-end music, which leaves very little time to remove oneself from the slipstream and relax. That’s where ChinaShop comes in. We’ve always fancied ourselves as purveyors of good taste, communicating the best of what’s out there straight to your computer monitor, but this week we thought we’d go the extra mile provide a tangible service to the band’s themselves. The music makers. The dreamers of dreams. So here’s what we did.

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Gallery Music Vanaprasta’s CMJ Photo Diary

by Rich Thomas
November 4, 2010 - 10:08 am

A month-long residency at the Echo and a headlining slot at the Key Club during the Sunset Strip Musical Festival confirmed for the LA masses what us at ChinaShop have known for quite some time. Vanaprasta—the sometimes proggy, sometimes psychedelic, always rocking band with the name that’s really hard to type out—has officially arrived, and with a full-length debut already recorded and due for release sometime in 2011, they’re poised to break out big time. The boys were kind enough to snap some pics of their recent sojourn to New York for CMJ, while Cameron Dmytryk (guitars) and Taylor Brown (bass) sorted us out with an interview and an MP3 of “Minnesota,” a track off their album.

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