Baidu is quite well known in China as being the place to get free mp3s by just searching for songs at mp3.baidu.com and then downloading the song from the respective website. Now, this can be done still in Google with some advanced search commands (eg: filetype:mp3 aerosmith), but what could be done for Baidu specifically?

Fresh out of college, American Dana Burton arrived in China to bring hip-hop to the Middle Kingdom. Now, eight years later, he’s become the godfather of hip-hop in the most populous country in the world. FP talks to the 32-year-old impresario about his unlikely journey from the streets of Detroit to the nightclubs of Shanghai.

Interview with the men behind new podcast 'Pissing On The Bamboo Curtain'. A monthly attempt to make sense of, and highlight, the buzzing Beijing underground live alternative music scene.

When Public Enemy, the militant rap group, came to Beijing this weekend they were not censored at all. In seems The Rolling Stones are a bigger threat to authoritarian rule than lyrics like "Our freedom of speech is freedom or death; we got to fight the powers that be."

Danwei has a great little video featuring some world-class musicians that have - for reasons unknown - taken on the task of jammin' in Chinese. Anyone familiar with famous session banjoist Bela Fleck will certainly appreciate this.