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...
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...
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...
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...
Very happy to announce the publication of the first issue of “Sinophone Musical Worlds” in China Perspectives! This special feature of China Perspectives offers an original insight on music as part of the Sinophone studies. By crisscrossing different disciplines,...
Guo Xiaolu 郭小橹 was born in China in 1973, and grew-up in Zhejiang province. A complicated childhood which is the subject of her 2017 memoir, Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up. In 1993, she...
Music censorship in China is not new, it has made the headline in the recent past during the infamous “hip-hop ban” of January 2018. During the so-called “hip-hop ban”, we could literally see the panic of the official censors when...
It’s not the first time we talk about Yan Jun (颜峻). A rock critic and experimental musician from Lanzhou, Yan Jun was at the frontline of the Chinese “new sound movement” of the 1990s – like the title of a...
In her PhD dissertation, Peng Lei provides a copy of all the “Conversation on Rock and Roll” (“对话摇滚乐”) articles that were published between 1992 and 1994 in the magazine 音像世界 (The World of Sounds and Musics). Those articles, written by...
On December 2016, the legendary fanzine Maximum RocknRoll published a special issue on Chinese punk and underground music. I wrote an article entitled “Here’s a Punk City, Wuhan!” for the occasion, on – yes that’s original – Wuhan punk. So...
If you still remember what we said before (yes, it’s been a while), you know that in the mid-1990s something new is going on in China. Between a new “cultural fever” (文化热), the apparition of dakou (打口) CDs and tapes,...
Si vous suivez bien l’histoire de l’underground musical que nous avons commencé à cartographier depuis déjà quelques temps, vous avez compris qu’au milieu des années 1990 quelque chose est en train de se passer en Chine. Entre fièvre culturelle (文化热),...
