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Mar 29, 2024 · We only realised then how big he was in China. He’s like a rock star over there.”. Liu was motivated to have his books translated into English partly “to let people in the United States and the English-speaking world know that China also has science fiction novels.”.
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- Mirrors
- South Acid Mimi Dance Team
- Tow
- Wang Wen
- Zuriaake
Everything is beautiful and everywhere hurts. Everyone’s a victim. Everything is boring. DAVID BORING love their little philosophical soliloquys. Their world is withdrawn, alienating and gloriously noisy. “We don’t set out to entertain, instead join us for a complete self-indulgent celebration of new age sufferings,” they say in the introduction to...
There’s a restlessness to Hiperson’s music that I absolutely love. It’s a masterful tension that the band sustains in their brilliant, tight live sets. Frontwoman Chen Sijiang’s unique voice is both clarion call and siren song, punctuating the complex, precise rhythmic interplay between drums, bass and guitar. Comparisons to mainland legends P.K. 1...
Rising from the ashes of Nonplus of Color, one of Shanghai’s best experimental groups, Mirrors take Nonplus’ abrasive psychedelia in darker, sexier directions. There’s not much out there from the band just yet, but they’re one of the groups I’m most excited to see more of.
A Yunnan-based riot grrrl trio that makes music somewhere between dance punk, spoken word fury and performance art. “Rammstein is Playing At My House” goes the title to one of their signature songs, and their lyrics capture that particular loneliness and frustration of China’s rapidly changing megacities, and the erasures that this pace of change c...
One of the most alluring bands to come out of the Beijing scene in years, TOW is Yang Fan (formerly of Ourself Beside Me, and the ace producer behind some of Chinese indie’s best albums) and Liu Ge (formerly of The Molds, tipped in the late 2000s to be China’s next Big Band). They make blues-infused synth popthat shimmers like desert sands from an ...
Chinese post-rock royalty; conjurers of soaring, emotional, masterful instrumental epics. That’s the phrase you’ll commonly see describing this Dalian band. “Post-rock,” the contested term for largely instrumental music that uses rock instruments toward symphonic, orchestral ends, is pretty much a pan-Asian genre now. The most interesting sounds, i...
Black Metal Chinese opera, played out in glorious cinematic widescreen. Formed in 2001, Zuriaake are veterans of Chinese black metal. Perhaps theyareChinese black metal itself. They’re the epitome of the “cult” band; a reverential fanbase, highly regarded but limited output, and rare, rapturous live shows. Their identities and backgrounds are shrou...
Apr 27, 2023 · Now, 24-year-old Lexie Liu, from Changsha, China, is joining those ranks as a singer, songwriter and rapper—and fast becoming one of the top Asian acts to watch. Liu has turned the heads of music critics and fans alike for mashing up elements of cyberpunk, electropop, hip hop and rock in her songs, and the unique combo has paid off.
Aug 30, 2024 · Liu Yao, a 41-year-old professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at China’s Shandong University — and has published over 80 scientific papers — was uncovered as the lead singer...
Apr 7, 2015 · Liu is like a rock star in China. He gets the crowd pumping, and it’s just fun to see someone perform well at home and get that much crowd support. It just proves how big of an icon and a sports figure Liu is.”
Nov 29, 2022 · Lexie Liu is already a star in China and South Korea, and she’s becoming huge all around the globe – and we want Just Jared readers to exclusively get to know her even better!
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Dec 6, 2023 · The theme of Rene Liu’s “Final Call” concert tour was actually determined as early as 2019. However, due to various circumstances, it wasn’t until 2023 that the concert finally had the...
