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...
En décembre 2021, Clément Tricot m’a invité pour une série de quatre émissions sur Radio Taïwan International sur l’histoire de la censure de la musique à Taïwan. Nous y avons parlé des mécanismes institutionnels de la censure, de la colonisation...
It’s now becoming a tradition, reviewing the past year in music – as we did in 2020 or in 2019 with a review of the past decade. To be honest it’s complicated to top last year, with the (very) long...
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...
What can we do? KTV! Where can we go? KTV! Brain Failure 脑浊, “KTV” [UPDATE] The regulations have been adopted. To see what has changed from the draft to the actual regulations, see this part at the end. Since the...
Je vais tenter ici de regrouper tous les documentaires qui ont été produits sur la musique indépendante chinoise. De nombreux documentaires sont accessibles en ligne, mais souvent éparpillés et peu connus. Voici donc une liste (provisoire et qui sera actualisée...
In this post, I will try to list all the documentaries that were produced on Chinese independent music. A lot of these documentaries can be found online, but there is no systematic listing, and some are unknown to the general...
Once in a while, a controversy emerges on Weibo, sometimes manufactured by the Youth League – as in 2018 with the PG One scandal that led to the short-lived “hip-hop ban” – sometimes in a more organic manner, when Chinese...
For the first time, there will (probably) be no vigil to commemorate the 32th year anniversary of the repression of the Tiananmen movement in the Sinophone world, due to the COVID situation in Taiwan, or the National Security Law (NSL)...
We already talked about Wuhan early punk bands, with the 2003 Wuhan punk compilation “Travel in Desert” (荒漠旅行), featuring SMZB 生命之饼, Si Dou Le (SDL) 死逗了, Polang 破浪, Disover and Big Buns. They were some of the most influential early...
2020 is already gone… It was a strange year indeed. The COVID-19 pandemic of course, and at its epicenter Wuhan, probably the city I talk the most about in here (you can check my Wuhan playlist here). During the Wuhan...
I recently wrote an article on RadiiChina about SMZB new album, “Once Upon A Time In The East” (东方往事), which is supposed to be released soon on Maybe Mars – the famous indie label bought by Taihe Music last year....
What do the Beijing punk bands Brain Failure 脑浊, Hang On The Box 掛在盒子上, the Japanese garage-rock band The 5.6.7.8’s and Quentin Tarantino have in common? To my surprise, it’s Kill Bill (volume 1), the 2003 critically acclaimed movie directed...
Wuhan has been at the center of the world’s news lately, as the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak. But as I already said in a article on RadiiChina, Wuhan is first and foremost the birthplace of Chinese punk, and has...
In a few days, the 2010s will be over, and everyone is making his own list, discussing the best and worst of the 2010s (like the best and worst movies of the decade – a piece of advise: if the...
