"5 Reasons Why Musical Comedy is a Serious Genre"

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Kevin Mcgeary, Shenzhen Local Musician at La Casa, Shenzhen, China

 By Kevin Mcgeary  Type: Opinion, Research and Insight   All music is designed to entertain. But musical comedy is designed to entertain people in a particular way, by making them laugh. As Don O’Connor pointed out in “Singin’ in the Rain,” this is one of the most challenging and worthwhile forms of public performance.   The easiest way… Read more »

SZLM Interview's Alec Phillips, American pro-musician living in Guangzhou

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Alec Phillips, american muscian, shenzhen china

By Rue Moyer On June 18th, 2012/6/26 I met up with Alec Phillips at Starbucks, OCT Loft to record the stories, adventures, craziness that has been his life. Alec was down that Saturday night for Rapscallions 1 year anniversary party and we ended up scoping out the city, swapping performance stories and discussing the future of… Read more »

Right Place, Right Time

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Black Panda: Shelby

By Alastair Dickie I have been hiding under a rock. For years. Or at least that’s how it seems… I’ve seen more live music in Shenzhen in the last six months of living here than I have for the last three years, and I have been wondering why. My default (and usually spot-on) reaction is… Read more »

"Grass around your ankles in the field before the flood, you're a rough-cut diamond in the Mississippi mud… Take Me Away"

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take me away

By Rue Moyer The title is a line of lyrics from the beautiful song, “Take Me Away” by Hayes Carll. I love the rawness of Soundcloud: Hayes is awesome, taking nothing away from him. But, Elliott really owns this song when he performs it.  Have a listen: (my phone camera doesn’t pick up sound the… Read more »