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...
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...
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...
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....
