We’ve got a lot of China coming at you this fortnight, with a range of tracks from Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Lanzhou (and Chicago). But we’re always after more. We’re looking to spread the word of up-and-coming artists and we want your work. Send us your tunes to drop.io/timeouthk and you could end up on the next pod. Presented by Metal Postcard Records.

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Poubelle International The Sellout
www.poubelleinternational.com
This Hong Kong-based, energetic-rock three-piece release their debut EP Avec La Boom! this fortnight, and we’ve got the first sneak peak to it right here on the pod. This track about selling out in the music industry is the EP version, with them sounding fatter, bigger and louder than ever. Poubelle Intenational launch Avec La Boom on at Backstage. See Preview.

Low Wormwood Who
www.myspace.cn/dikuai
We say take a little Lee Hazlewood, sprinkle with Nick Cave, Tindersticks and some rice wine and you have the wonderfully maudlin and distinctly Chinese Low Wormwood, hailing from Lanzhou, Gansu. Great name too.

Fanzui Xiangfa Kill Your Television
www.myspace.com/fanzuixiangfa
With songs such as Talk is Poison, Go No Slow and our choice for the pod, Kill Your Television, these guys are the sound of modern, angry Beijing youth. They might not be 100 per cent original (they call it Chinese thrashcore) but it certainly sounds heartfelt to us, and that’s the important thing. And as they say on their MySpace page, they are influenced by “Punk, grind and hardcore bands from all over the world. People fighting oppression and injustice all over the world.”

Yea Big & Kid Static Bots
www.myspace.com/yeabigkidstatic
The Future’s Looking Grim, released on Metal Postcard Records, is the third LP from this Chicago based hip-hop duo, who were named by URB and MTV as one of America’s most up and coming hip hop acts in 2009. The beats veer on the side of experimental while Kid Static’s rapid fire rhymes question the current state of the nation. You won’t find an ounce of bling on these two.

Godot No.4
wiki.rockinchina.com/index.php?title=Godot.1_(Godot)
Shanghai-based Godot are so named because the band took their name from Beckett's Waiting for Godot, wherein Estragon says: “Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!” Mainly a live band, expect layers of guitars and post-indie experimental workouts.