Xiami Music Festival in Aranya RadiiChina article on the last Xiami Music Festival in Beidahe, featuring Xu Wei and Zhao Lei. The famous music streaming platform Xiami was closed in 2021, during the pandemic, before coming back as a music...
Pictures of Teresa Teng Chiang Mai’s hotel suite surface on social media Pop legend Teresa Teng’s hotel suite in Chiang Mai where she spent her final days has recently been made public according to a VN Express article. Pictures of...
Taiwan version of “The Big Band” begins Yes, Taiwan has now it’s own version of “The Big Band” (乐队的夏天), the iQiyi show which jump-started the carreer of many old and new Chinese indie-rock bands. It’s called “Let’s Listen to the...
Noise in Hong Kong Not the noise you were expecting. But multiple noise complaints were received on the second day of the S2O Hong Kong Songkran Music Festival (the so-called “World’s wettest party”) held at the Central Waterfront, according to...
Another live venue closing in HK- again: Star Hall After Music Zone last month, it’s the turn of Star Hall (a medium 3,600 seats capacity live venue) to close down in Kitec this month, according to a SCMP article. Star...
Le livre Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire, aboutissement de mes recherches sur le mouvement punk en Chine, sort aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes le 31 mars 2022. Vous pouvez retrouver ici la liste des chansons...
Table of Contents: We previously talked about 1990s rock magazines in China, as “Punk Generation” (朋克时代) or “Freedom Music” (自由音乐). They pretty much all disappeared after one or two years. One fanzine however became so popular that he was distributed...
Xiami Music Festival in Aranya RadiiChina article on the last Xiami Music Festival in Beidahe, featuring Xu Wei and Zhao Lei. The famous music streaming platform Xiami was closed in 2021, during the pandemic, before coming back as a music...
Pictures of Teresa Teng Chiang Mai’s hotel suite surface on social media Pop legend Teresa Teng’s hotel suite in Chiang Mai where she spent her final days has recently been made public according to a VN Express article. Pictures of...
Taiwan version of “The Big Band” begins Yes, Taiwan has now it’s own version of “The Big Band” (乐队的夏天), the iQiyi show which jump-started the carreer of many old and new Chinese indie-rock bands. It’s called “Let’s Listen to the...
Noise in Hong Kong Not the noise you were expecting. But multiple noise complaints were received on the second day of the S2O Hong Kong Songkran Music Festival (the so-called “World’s wettest party”) held at the Central Waterfront, according to...
Another live venue closing in HK- again: Star Hall After Music Zone last month, it’s the turn of Star Hall (a medium 3,600 seats capacity live venue) to close down in Kitec this month, according to a SCMP article. Star...
Young Dan 回春丹 Controversy in Taiwan Hui Chun Dan is an indie rock band from Guangxi, who rose to fame during the third season of The Big Band. Another cross-strait controversy: they sent a Weibo message mentioning “Taiwan, China” before...
Midi Kids Bands Competition An article by China Daily on the latest “Midi Kids Band Competition” – an annual competition organized by the Midi School of Music. The article focuses on two winners of the competition, a Xinjiang band named...
I’m trying a new format, a press review of what happened regarding popular music in the Sinophone world, so I don’t forget stuff and can finally close some tabs on my phone. Since it’s the first one, I will be...
As usual, here is a short review of the year 2023 in music. Not a “best of”, but rather a list of things that happened in 2023, some were good, some were bad. Some were weird (Shijiazhuang’s “rock city” project)....
Du 20 au 24 septembre 2023, une exposition présentant des archives que j’ai collectées durant mes recherches doctorales sur le punk chinois (photographies de terrain, t-shirts, albums, posters, etc.) était installée au Centre de la Vieille Charité à Marseille, durant...
Lately, a decision by the Shijiazhuang municipal government to brand the city as the “Rock and Roll Home Town” (搖滾之城 also a clever [?] pun, as the “shi” 石 in “Shijiazhuang” literally means “rock”, 家 jia “home”, and 莊 zhuang...
2022 saw a lot of things happening in the Sinophone world: China’s “A4 Revolution”, and the subsequent lifting of the major zero-COVID policies, maybe a reopening of the country to the outside world (who knows?) – but also a surge...
Dernièrement, la chaîne YouTube de vulgarisation scientifique “Avides de Recherche“, par la voix de Charlotte de la chaîne “Les langues de Cha“, a produit une très belle vidéo inspiré de mon article (en open-access) paru en 2018 dans Civilisation,”‘Drunk is...
Amar, Nathanel (2022). ‘We come from the underground’: Grounding Chinese punk in Beijing and Wuhan. Popular Music, 41(2), 170-193. doi:10.1017/S0261143022000046 The history of the Chinese punk scene in the scientific literature or in retrospective testimonies is traditionally dominated by a...
De retour au micro de Radio Taiwan International en compagnie de Clément Tricot pour discuter de la sortie du livre Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes. Une interview à retrouver sur...
