Blog Tag - Punk

Get Rowdy With Brazil's Disco Punks Blastfemme This Friday
Generally speaking, the musical genres of disco and punk could not be more polar opposites – on the surface, one idealizes glamour and consumerism...
Q&A with Budapest Folk Punks Bohemian Betyars ahead of Oct 5 and 6 Beijing Shows
Bohemian Betyars certainly live up to the first word in their name. The Budapest-based world music band incorporates a hilarious number of genres...
Torontonian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats on Loving Ozzy and Overcoming Grief
Cancer Bats certainly know how to make hardcore punk sound like a helluva a good time. The Toronto band – whose albums have been praised by critics...
Deniz Tek of Australia's Legendary Punk Band Radio Birdman Set to Shred This Weekend
When American garage punk pioneers The Fleshtones rolled through Beijing and the rest of China back in the fall of 2016, it left quite the impression...
"Not Sure About Liam Gallagher's Taste, But We'll Take What We Can Get" -Metz Talk Kudos From Oasis Founder, Steve Albini Collaboration Ahead of May 25 Yue Space Gig
From having legendary producer Steve Albini helm their latest LP, to getting a loving shout out from notoriously brazen rockstar Liam Gallagher, it...
Q&A with Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz Ahead Of May 7 Gig at Wukesong Cadillac Arena
Forget the Fall Out Boy that gave you an emo soundtrack to survive high school. Today, the band has grown far beyond the pop-punk sound that made...
Burgeoning Lille, France band Bare Teeth Ahead of Apr 15 School Bar Gig
Burgeoning Lille, France band Bare Teeth is sure to not only pummel the crowd to blissful senselessness with its brashly raw rhythms at its Apr 15...
DP Elegant Punk: Q&A With Hangnail Frontman Ahead of Mar 2 School Bar Gig
If you close your eyes at a Hangnail show, you won't be surprised to hear pummeling percussion and steely punk riffs. But one glance at frontman Xiao...
New Zealand Punks Die! Die! Die! Set to Slay Onstage at Yue Space, Sep 8
They may be called Die! Die! Die! (DDD), but their music is as hard-hitting and invigorating as a defribulator sending pulses through your system,...
New Mao Wukesong Livehouse To Open Aug. 18
UPDATE, Aug. 14: This weekend's gigs have been postponed until further notice. We will update this a blog once more information is available....
R "They Banned Me, But That's What Made Me Famous" Q&A with Pioneering Taiwan Punk Sissey Chao Ahead of May 4 Yue Space Gig
From being banned from the airwaves by Taiwanese authorities, to having R.E.M. choose his band as an opening act, fewer Taipei acts have seen greater...
R Popular Punks Cloud Nothings will Compel You to Pogo at Modernsky Lab, April 14
Beijing music fans' hearts sank when gig promoter Split Works' plans to bring indie rock darling Angel Olsen to the Mainland recently fell through....
Legendary Bassist Mike Watt to Perform at DDC March 18
He's been called a seminal post-punk bassist by CMJ New Music, was handed a Bass Player Magazine lifetime achievement award by Flea of the Red Hot...
Turntable Punk: DJ Scratchy talks touring with The Clash, keeping an old school ethos, and more ahead of Beijing Residency
Unlike most of Joe Strummer's fans, DJ Scratchy didn't worship The Clash frontman as a punk God. In fact Scratchy (born Barry Myers) was given a far...
Slither in for Punk at Snake Livehouse
Until recently we thought that Yashow Clothing Market was completely shut down. This isn’t quite the case. Nestled on the seventh floor of this...