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Feb 17, 20166 min read
THE OTHER WAYS IN WHICH MUSICIANS ARE BEING SHORT-CHANGED
By Hans Ebert There’s been a whole lotta shaking and tweeting going on in the past few weeks, and now that the social media genie is well...
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Feb 9, 20166 min read
POLITICS, RACISM AND THE SUPER BOWL HALF TIME BEYONCÉ SHOW
By Hans Ebert I agree. #Beyonce #Formation pic.twitter.com/4zMb17CHiu — Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi) February 8, 2016 After an overkill...
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Jan 23, 20163 min read
THE MUSICAL SOUNDTRACK TO LIFE: WHAT’S YOURS?
By Hans Ebert I was half-watching a repeat of the television series “Life On Mars” the other night and on came “Reflections Of My Life”...
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Jan 20, 20167 min read
Can there really be Made In Hong Kong music- good enough for the world?
By Hans Ebert Many want to put the house in order- and put Humpty Dumpty back together again- but, gawd knows, it’s not easy when there’s...
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Jan 15, 20164 min read
FINDING DIAMOND DOGS AND LOST MUSICAL GEMS
By Hans Ebert He wasn’t being confrontational, just asking: “Do you think Bowie would be the game changer he was if a new artist today?...
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Jan 12, 20165 min read
LIKE BOWIE: DON’T DREAM IT, BE IT
By Hans Ebert Other than those who have “made it”- and this term becomes more oblique every day- musicians still struggling to have their...
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Jan 8, 20164 min read
WHO ARE ROCK’S GREATEST FRONTMEN- AND SHOWMEN?
By Hans Ebert When forming that first band, there weren’t too many takers for the role of frontman. There might have been a lead singer...
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Jan 4, 20164 min read
THE MOST UNDERRATED ROCK GUITAR RIFFS: IT’S A PERSONAL THING
By Hans Ebert When it comes to guitar riffs, while the Stones almost have a monopoly on The Greatest Rock Riffs Of All Time with Keef...
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Dec 31, 20152 min read
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 HEAVIEST MUSIC MOMENTS?
By Hans Ebert “Heavy, man.” It’s been said many times along with, “Bummer, man” to express being dumped, being kicked out of a band,...
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Dec 28, 20156 min read
Keeping things as simple as a #JustinBieber and #SelenaGomez song
By Hans Ebert It’s good to get away from daily routines. It clears the head, let’s in some much-needed fresh air to make the fog and...
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Dec 22, 20157 min read
What’s holding back Asian artists singing in English? Is The Force not with them?
By Hans Ebert While Hong Kong’s so-called English “music scene” meanders along with the usual suspects “jizzing” away imagining that...
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Dec 16, 20157 min read
Mainland China is potentially the biggest music market in the world? Still? Oh, please.
By Hans Ebert A friend in horse racing recently asked who I thought was the best music executive in Asia. The answer was easy: No one. If...
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Dec 3, 20156 min read
How the Hong Kong Tourism Board can recreate Hong Kong’s moribund music industry
By Hans Ebert We’ve said it here before and we’ll say it again, but Hong Kong – and especially the Government and the Hong Kong Tourism...
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Nov 21, 20154 min read
The Cult Of Adele: Is it all it’s cracked up to be? Or just cracked?
By Hans Ebert There’s an awful lot written about “25”, the new record by Adele that’s been four years in the making. Most of everything...
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Nov 16, 20156 min read
The A&R process and is it lost in translation?
By Hans Ebert There’s been a great deal of chatter recently about this term known as “A&R” (Artists and Repertoire), its importance,...
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Nov 13, 20154 min read
YOU CAN REVERSE THE PAIN
By Hans Ebert And so you’ve now gone from choosing songs for your wedding to deciding what songs should be played when you’re laid to...
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Nov 8, 20155 min read
Changing the music world: Any investors out there?
By Hans Ebert It’s called the “Not Invented Here Syndrome”, and Adam Levine admitting to Howard Stern that after all the bells and...
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Nov 5, 20155 min read
Suffering from Adeleosiphilitis and looking for Honesty In Music
By Hans Ebert Suffering from Adeleosiphilitis? Tired to watch one more spoof of the dear lady’s “Hello”, the uniquely titled first track...
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Nov 3, 20156 min read
MONGOLIAN HOT POT ON A MONGOLIAN SATURDAY AND NEW WORLD MUSIC ORDER
By Hans Ebert Horse racing and the world of music might have made strange bedfellows back in the day when the twain could never meet,...
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Nov 1, 20152 min read
HELLO ADELE, IT’S TIME FOR HOTLINE BLING
By Hans Ebert https://youtu.be/Ns–T6ew5zQ Though he sings that she never calls him on his cellphone anymore, what’s interesting in the...
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