A few recent updates. My main focus at the moment is Open All the Buddha Boxes, an illustrated history of the Beijing music underground from…
Continue reading Feb 2020 Update: Book, Radio, SmartBeijing Archives
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Here are some pieces of mine published in 2016 that I’m proud of: – Long-form interview with Beijing poet, freestyle rapper, scene gadfly and former…
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Going rogue with Beijing’s young crop of itinerant experimental musicians at a public underpass near Sanyuanqiao. Guerilla noise… [repost from September 22, 2015]
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A long chat with the founder of D-22, Maybe Mars, and XP about how Beijing’s music culture has changed over the last decade, and his next moves after XP closes… [repost from July 3, 2015]
Continue reading [Culture Bureau]: Michael Pettis, Owner of XP, D-22
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A to Z with Zhang Shouwang, the soft-spoken cypher behind Beijing indie scene linchpins Carsick Cars and White+… [repost from February 26, 2014]
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On the origins of one of Beijing’s most influential weekly gig series, Zoomin’ Night [repost from February 24, 2014]
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An interview with ZATO and EKSAS, two of Beijing’s most ubiquitous graffiti bombers, and some thoughts thereon, and some photos thereof…
Continue reading Infiltration Index: Gulou’s Street Writers
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PK14 has undoubtedly been canonized in the pantheon of Chinese Indie greats, but Haisong’s personal influence runs much deeper than his band’s [repost from August 14, 2013]
Continue reading [Culture Bureau]: Yang Haisong
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No Beijing is the name of a compilation, a movement, a crew of musicians who stepped into the void of post-SARS Beijing and have come to define a generation of Chinese noisemakers… [repost from February 25, 2013]
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