We’re steaming into a big fortnight of music, and we’ve got you covered for what’s happening in Hong Kong and around the region. Metal Postcard Records’ Sean Hocking writes about what you can hear on our podcast’s fourth installment.

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My Little Airport
A Certain Romance in Kowloon Tong
www.mylittleairport.com
Hong Kong’s favourite cute, twee-poppy indie duo play two gigs at Hang Out on Friday 20 & Sunday 22 to launch their new album Poetics – something between Montparnasse and Mong Kok. To get you in the mood, have a listen to this from My Little Airport’s 2008 joint release with Chet Lam, For Your Feelings.

Critical Min Varld
www.criticalrap.com
Swedish hip-hop hits our shores as muso / graffiti artist Henrik Jensen, aka Critical, brings his sharp-tongued Scandinavian rap. He’s playing the Fringe Club on Saturday 14.

Volt In Music Ghost
www.voltinmusic.hk
After a few years around the traps, VIM have had a bit going on recently. This locally-based electronic act consisting of girl/ boy duo HONHIM and K recently won best performing group and best new song at Tom Lee Digital Music Awards, played Clockenflap, and we hear have been working on their debut album. Ghost is a sublime piece of electronica – hopefully this is the future of new music in Hong Kong.

Block 45 Something In The Air
www.myspace.com/block45music
Block 45 is a mysterious Australian artist based in Tokyo who works from a similar palette to Beck. He’s named himself after the young artist enclave Block 45, an area in Nakano, Tokyo also called “Yonjugobangai”. We love his breezy electro-rock-pop sound and you may well see him on a Metal Postcard release soon.

Blitzen Trapper Black River Killer
www.blitzentrapper.net
This Portland, Oregon, band are a potpourri of Neil Young, The Neville Brothers, The Band, and Sonic Youth all combined, and we saw them wow the crowd in a two-and-a-half hour show in their home town. Here’s the title track off their recently released Black River Killer EP.