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Monthly Press Review – 10 (November 2024)

Karaoke and Typhoon in Taiwan

A Guardian article on “typhoon day” in Taiwan as the super typhoon Kong-rey was approaching the island in the last days of October 2024. Many Taiwanese make the most of this day off by going to the karaoke to sing MayDay or Linkin Park’s songs.


Chinese Football in Seattle

The now world famous post-rock band from Wuhan Chinese Football is still on the road. After East-Asia, the Wuhan heroes are touring North America, The International Examiner recounts their Seattle performance in this article.


Taiwan Golden Indie Music Awards

The Taiwan Golden Indie Music Awards (GIMA) were held on November 2 at the Taipei Music Center. As indie music is becoming more popular in the island, the GIMA are replacing the Golden Melody Awards for the indie rock and hip-hop bands. Bandwagon and Niewmedia recounts the winners of the evening: Bremen Entertainment Inc. won the award for best album, hip-hop artist handsome man won the award for best new artist, and of course heavy weights Sunset Rollercoaster, Sorry Youth and Elephant Gym each snatched some awards. This year, the jury award’s was given posthumously to Wayne Liu for his Solo Album.


Quotation Techno Songs

In his last book Circuit Listening, Andrew F. Jones talks about “quotation songs” during the Cultural Revolution: popular songs that used Mao’s Little Red Book quotes in their lyrics. The Independent published a very interesting article about underground techno rave parties in China – in particular in Changchun – where ravers dance below a big screen rolling through quotations from Chairman Mao.


Madam Wong and LA Punk Rock

This is not a new story, but this month the magazine SF Gate is retelling the story of the birth of Los Angeles punk-rock in relation to the Hong Kong restaurant of Madam Wong, which provided the nascent punk scene a much-needed live venue in the late 1970s. There’s a documentary by Artbound called Chinatown Punk Wars which talks specifically about Madam Wong’s restaurant.


Taiwanese Opera and Drag Culture

An NPR program with Emily Feng on Taiwanese Opera (歌仔戲 koa-a-hi) and its appropriation by contemporary Taiwanese drag culture.


Buyi in Japan

We talked about the Chinese hard-rock band Buyi last month, here’s another article by the China Daily on Buyi’s successful tour to Japan – and of course focusing on the old Japanese drummer Funky, who seems to embody the ideal version of sino-japanese international relation.


Universal Music signs an agreement with The Rap of China

Big news for iQiyi’s hit show The Rap Of China (中國有嘻哈 or whatever name it is these days), Universal Music China signed an agreement with iQiyi to release songs from the contestants of the 2024 season worldwide, according to Digital Music News.


Universal Music announces a partnership with Modern Sky

After hip-hop, Universal Music is also interested in the Chinese indie rock scene. Universal Music will distribute Modern Sky catalogue worldwide, after signing an agreement with Shen Lihui’s label according to udiscover music and Sina. Prepare yourselves for another world tour of New Pants, Wutiaoren, Re-TROS, Second Hand Rose. Who’s gonna complain?


Xin Liu new EP

An article by The Source on China’s hip-hop prodigy Xin Liu (刘雨昕). Her most recent EP, Xanadu, sold over 54 million copies worldwide and became the best-selling Chinese physical album ever.


Xi Will Rock You

An article in the German Süddeutsche Zeitung on rock in China, entitled “Xi Will Rock You”. I don’t read German and the article is pay-walled, so I can just guess from the title and the summary that it’s about rock music under Xi’s regime. According to Google Translate: “The Chinese regime has always been suspicious of Western music. For Mao, rock was pornography. Under Xi Jinping, artists are now being monitored more closely. So: always be a good boy.”


Coldplay. Again.

Every month there’s another story about Coldplay performing in HK in April. This month, the British band added a fourth show at Kai Tak Stadium according to SCMP. There’s too much publicity for these shows, at some point something wrong is going to happen.


A Curated Playlist of Taiwanese Underground Bands

James Gui from The Wire curated a very interesting playlist of Taiwanese underground bands, featuring among others Mong Tong, Dope Purple or Island Futurism. Issue 490 of The Wire also features a scene report from Gui.


Mayday promise to ‘make it up’ to Singaporean fans

The Taiwanese pop-rock band Mayday promised to make it up to their fans during their 25th anniversary concerts, after fans were disappointed with their performances as the singer Ashin caught a cold before his Singapore concert (too bad he couldn’t lip-sync ahah), according to The Straits Time.


Chinese bands at Clockenflap

An interesting report by China Daily on this year’s Clockenflap festival in Hong Kong, focusing, among other things, on the two Mainland (great) performances (I can confirm I was there): Hiperson 海朋森 and FAZI 法茲. Talking about FAZI, they recently released a new album, reinterpreting their old songs with a new twist.



OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Nathanel Amar (6 décembre 2024). Monthly Press Review – 10 (November 2024). Scream For Life. Consulté le 18 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/12ux0


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