11th ICRT Battle of the Bands Accepting Demos!
It’s time to show off your musical talents. Get ready to belt your hearts out! ICRT’s 11th annual “Battle of the Bands” Competition is back and better than ever. Apart from performing on stage, this year’s champion will receive grand prizes worth a total of 250,000 NT, get their song(s) played on-air, and get an...Continue reading
ICRT’s 10th Battle of the Bands Now Accepting Demos!
It’s best on best for ICRT’s 10th Annual Battle of the Bands this year, and WE WANT YOU! We’re taking everything to the extreme for this special anniversary edition of Battle of the Bands. Contestants will face a star-studded panel of judges, including multi-talented singer-songwriter Wang Dawen, Golden Melody nominated musician Hu Shen, and songwriter-producer...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Zhong Chenhu of Team Ear Music
Zhong Chenhu, finals judge for ICRT’s Battle of the Bands, knows a thing or two about success in the music biz. Chenhu, or Tiger, graduated from Tamkang University’s Department of Banking and Finance. He founded Team Ear Music studio in 2005, and is currently its general manager. The studio’s core value, is to “give...Continue reading
ICRT Prepares to Rock the Station’s Eighth Annual Battle of the Bands
Six of the island’s best emerging local bands will compete this Saturday at International Community Radio Taipei’s eighth annual Battle of the Bands for the chance to be crowned champion by some of the most influential names in the music industry. The event, held at the Taipei New Horizon between 3 and 7 p.m., showcases...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Swing Wang of Rock’n’Rap
Half way through a Spring Scream performance, in the spur of the moment, Swing Wang – the then young and impressionable lead singer of the band RockBang who wanted so much to be like the overseas bands he idolized so much – threw himself off the stage into the dozen audience members below. Little did...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Hu Shen of Quarterback
Hu Shen’s (虎神) rock odyssey began as an exercise in teenage pragmatism: seventeen year old Hu Shen needed an in with the girls, and girls, he had heard, were into musicians. “I think a lot of us start out hoping our music will turn us into chick magnets. It rarely works,” the guitarist and bandleader...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: RayKai Chen of 1976
Although fame had come early and easily to RayKai Chen, the lead singer of 1976 does not attribute his success to skill. Nor does he believe it has anything to do with determination or courage. It’s luck, he says. In the more than a decade that he has been in the industry, Chen has witnessed...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Lin Hui-bin, Wonder Music Executive Manager
Lin Hui-bin, an all-around pop music professional, now holds the position of Executive Manager at Wonder Music, a studio that cultivates and promote independent bands. So far at least three bands have flourished under his tutelage: Won Fu, Tizzy Bac and Totem, an aboriginal group. What are the most important elements that he’d be looking for...Continue reading
ICRT Battle of the Bands Meet the Judges: Summer Hsu of Relax-ONE
Summer Hsu, lead singer of Relax-ONE, qualifying judge for ICRT’s Battle of the Bands, a woman who survived a spectacular onstage face-plant in the middle of an international show. “It was my first performance in Japan” she says with a laugh, “I started out stiff and nervous, and as I was dancing, my high heel...Continue reading
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