An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".

Last July with @gbienvenu.bsky.social we made a zine on Chinese (un)popular music for a party we organized during the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) conference in Paris ("Do You Like Chinese Music"). Here it is now on PDF: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4773

Two new Chinese album released this month: "5689" by legendary electronic band Supermarket 超级市场 music.apple.com/tw/album/568... and "整一座城市的胡椒粉也辣不死人" (Peasant Delights) by controversial punk band Dirty Fingers 脏手指 (the lead singer was accused of sexual harassement) open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...

In this month's Sinophone music press review: a Taiwanese music festival for democracy in Vancouver, a fashion brand co-founded by Mayday's Ashin, New Pants singing with Minions, and of course the never-ending end of hallyu ban (I'll believe when I'll see it): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4742

Hong Kong pianist and musician Anthony Sun Wei Ming played Beyond’s classic "海闊天空", before his departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport - after participating to a tribute concert dedicated to Wong Ka Kui in Malaysia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj9o...

The legendary Beijing punk act Hang On The Box 挂在盒子上 - still fronted by GIA (but apparently not an all-female band anymore) - gave a concert at the Strawberry Party in Beijing on August 8

The Sinophone Music press review of June-July is finally here! In this issue, a newly discovered Teresa Teng’s Japanese song, the first Chinese rapper surpassing Jay Chou on streaming platforms, a Taiwanese song censored in Taiwan, GMA winners and much more! scream4life.hypotheses.org/4689

A lot of love for the three demos posted online by the Chengdu garage punk band MENGZHUMENG 悶煮悶 entitled "Social Reintegration", with songs like "High School Dropout", "Make Money For What" or "CN NSBM Fuckoff": mengzhumeng.bandcamp.com/album/social...

New upload: So Rock! Magazine (我爱摇滚乐) issue 125 (July 2012), a special issue on Lanzhou and Xining bands, featuring 低苦艾 (Low Wormwood) and their famous song, "Lanzhou Lanzhou": scream4life.hypotheses.org/299#124

A new Sinophone music press review (May 2025): commemorating the 30th anniversary of Teresa Teng’s death, Mayday's Taipei concerts sold-out in minutes, Freddy Lim becoming Taiwan's representative in Finland, and more: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4597

Possibly the first time the China Daily (English edition) mentions the Wuhan punk band SMZB in an article on indie music in Wuhan. The problem is that the lyrics they quote from the song "大武漢" (the song is in Chinese and English) are slightly different... 1/3 global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202003/21/...

“Would I make the same mistakes? 龐貝、龐貝、龐貝 我會的，我一定會” The Beijing based band Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 singing their banger「龐貝影子舞」at MOM Livehouse in Hong Kong yesterday

Apparently you can pre-order the Switch 2 at Don Don Donki

30 years ago on this day, Teresa Teng passed away in Chiang Mai. “Wherever there are Chinese-speaking people, there is the music of Teresa Teng”

Mon livre "Scream for Life. L'invention d'une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire" est accessible en intégralité sur OpenEdition! My book "Scream for Life. The Invention of a Punk Counterculture in Contemporary China" is now available on OpenEdition (in French)! books.openedition.org/pur/257986

He we go again: April's Sinophone music monthly press review is online. Finally, the Coldplay concert is over. There's also the IShowSpeed visit in China, and its consequences on Chinese soft power (and weirdly enough, Zhang Dawei): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4514

Catching up with Marvel’s Blood Hunt series (2024). They still got it.

New Chthonic MV, “Endless Aeons” 百萬遍. As always, the song mix Buddhism with Taiwan history, but it hits differently today as Freddy Lim recently discovered through declassified archives the participation of his grandfather to the 228 movement which led to the White Terror youtu.be/xVIXCEyPrm8?...

Fake Nvidia ad for an adult store in Taipei

"Rocking Boundaries: Made-in-China Feminism and an All-Female Chinese Band in Tokyo", a very good article in @madeinchinajournal.com by Meng Meiyun on an all-female Chinese rock band based in Tokyo, and its relation to diasporic feminism and (self)censorship: madeinchinajournal.com/2025/04/10/r...

An unreleased song by Teresa Teng recorded in the mid 1980s was discovered by Universal Music Japan, and will be published in June as part of the tribute album of the Japanese composer Takashi Miki, who wrote the song: www.straitstimes.com/life/enterta...

A new press article on Chinese punks, David Boring and An Id Signal new albums, the death of Khalil Fong, and all-women marching bands for funerals in Taiwan - it's the Sinophone music press review, March edition: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4479

Highly recommend the new album of 本能实业 (Instinkto Industrio) entitled "烈日獨行". This is the new band of bokai, the lead singer of the punk-rock band 塑料, with more accordion: open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...

A very good HK band, an important album

Who knew The Standard could come up with such a clever headline

#Callforpapers "China Perspectives" - deadline for abstracts: 30/05/2025 "Rethinking the People’s Republic of China (1949 to the Present Time) through human-animal relations." Guest editor: Joachim Boittout #animal #China

LMF performing their classic 大懶堂 last month in London, featuring Paul Wong (from Beyond) playing the guitar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BLi...

Et voici en replay le second et dernier épisode sur le punk chinois avec l’ami @gbienvenu.bsky.social cette fois ci sur Wuhan, avec plein de bons sons de la capitale du Hubei: open.spotify.com/episode/1d8J...

SMZB new single, a Chinese jazz band of 20 years releasing their first album, a Tamul rapper singing in Mandarin, Green Day tour in Asia, all that and more in this month's Sinophone Music Press Review: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4444

Punk in the PRC: Nathanel Amar's book Scream for Life, along with his website and YouTube channel stephenjones.blog/2025/01/03/a...

Still need more time to process the new Wasted Laika 丢莱卡 album released a few weeks ago, "红蜻蜓，绿孔雀". It's a beautifully crafted album, which deserves many listening sessions. I especially recommend "迟到冠军", "红蜻蜓", "莱卡", but really all the songs are beautiful: open.spotify.com/intl-fr/albu...

Avec @gbienvenu.bsky.social on parle de punk à Pékin dans ce nouvel épisode de ZHONG disponible sur toutes les plateformes de streaming! La semaine prochaine, on discutera du cas de Wuhan, streamez fort! open.spotify.com/episode/3Lpe...

Wuhan punk legends SMZB new single, "The Last of the Mohicans" just dropped on their new bandcamp page ahead of their new album - after they got their rights back from the label. The song is dedicated to Ukraine, 3 years after its invasion by Russia. smzb.bandcamp.com/track/the-la...

The Xi’an excellent post-punk band FAZI will perform in Paris on May 30th!

First press review of 2025 on Sinophone music, with the last part dedicated to the CCTV Spring Festical Gala (guess who filmed the Yangge Bots part?): scream4life.hypotheses.org/4407

Happy lunar new year and CCTV Spring Festival Gala, with this year best song, “China Fun”

Le spectacle «Punk.e.s» retrace le parcours pionnier et chaotique du groupe féminin The Slits. A la Scala jusqu’au 30 mars. Dans les recommandations du cahier musique de Libé ce week-end :

🦋 The French Centre for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC) is now on Bluesky social media: follow us!

After 3 years and multiple job/country changes for us all, THRILLED to announce that the conference of the China Academic Network on Gender is back for a 4th edition! ✨ Join us on 17-18 June in lovely Paris with fab keynote speakers (Howard Chiang and Rachel Harris 💫 ) for "Voicing Gender in China"

Engaging with #Xiaohongshu ( #RED / #REDnote / #LittleRedBook): A Reading List. @qianhuang.bsky.social and I curated this crowdsourced reading list on Xiaohongshu - qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi... We're happy to add more suggestions! Hosted by Qian to make it accessible in China.

A short video made by Fender (the guitars you know) about one of the most interesting folk band from Nanjing, The Wild Cooperative 野外合作社: youtu.be/wG6qyn5bjRI?...

Last Sinophone music press review of the year (December): reviews of Clockenflap, David Bowie performing in Hong Kong 41 years ago, why Taiwan pop culture is less popular in China, and more: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4340

As usual, here's a list of Sinophone songs which defined my year 2024, in no particular order. 2024 was a year of extraordinary live performances, we lost one of China's most important rock'n'roll figure, Liu Yuan, and we got great new songs and albums: scream4life.hypotheses.org/4277

一路走好 Obituary by Liu Yuan family, Cui Jian and all the members of the band. On the right, detail of an iconic photo, Liu Yuan and Cui Jian on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The legendary Chinese rock and roll and jazz saxophonist Liu Yuan 刘元 passed away at 64. He was Cui Jian 崔健 saxophonist, he opened the CD Café, a safe haven for rockers and punks in the 1990s, and the East Shore Live Jazz Cafe in Beijing: tw.news.yahoo.com/%E6%85%9F-%E...

The post-hardcore band Catscare - with Nic from The Lovesong and Nicole from My Little Airport - performing tonight at The Aftermath in Hong Kong. A great band which should play more often.

Une très belle recension de mon livre “Scream for Life. L’invention d’une contre-culture punk en Chine populaire” par William Spok dans la dernière livraison de Volume! (ainsi qu’une autre très belle recension d’Andrew Jones par @gbienvenu.bsky.social): journals.openedition.org/volume/12919

📚 Nouveau numéro de la revue #Volume! avec ma recension du dernier ouvrage d'Andrew Jones "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s" journals.openedition.org/volume/12936

“El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido”, C.S.B.Q. singing “萨尔瓦多”, their tribute song to Salvador Allende, yesterday at Taipei’s Revolver

Tonight the Changsha oi-punk band C.S.B.Q 长沙暴青 will perform in Taipei’s Revolver, before touring SouthernTaiwan. Their song “未来国家的宝藏” is one of the most beautiful punk song on contemporary Chinese working-class: youtu.be/GIVfZUttnjg?...