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Live China Music PodcastNew Releases: 温柔D•BOY, SXNDPT TXRL, 沼泽, and more...Track List: Rats & Pears / 热夜梦逃亡 (post-punk) SXNDPT TXRL / Yearn for the urn (power violence) 温柔D•BOY / 做音乐有什么用（feat.Chzaza) (Shibuya-kei / hip-hop) 水牛儿 feat. 小老虎 (Water buffalo feat. J-fever) (instrumental / hip-hop) 咸山 (Xian Shan) / 棉花云 (Cotton clouds) (post-rock/ ambient) 沼泽 / 飒（live）(post-rock) About us: The mission of the Live China Music Podcast is to shed light on Chinese music, providing listeners with insights and information on the Chinese music scene that they would not be able to obtain elsewhere. The show follows a similar structure to inspiring podcasts such as NPR’s New Music Friday. During m...2025-07-0534 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Summertime Sadness, Colombia Cola, Zhang Xingchan, Lur: and more...Coming in a few days late but fear not, we are back for a tenth episode full of goodies, spanning from math rock to electro madness straight from the Chinese mainland! Track list 1 Summertime Sadness / 1914 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6nsBozu27AY0HJLiw0mcWW?si=65fab9c7d4dc4921 2 Zhang Xingchan 张醒婵 / I should be distracted Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1f3e7GzowV1sScBLmmh3Eq?si=70aa5c63b6f24cf2 Bandcamp: https://zxc0514.bandcamp.com/album/no-now 3 Colombia...2025-06-2533 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Xiao He & The Nursery Rhyme Project, Pumpkins, Mengzhumeng, and more...Where we cover egg punk, nursery rhymes, some shoegaze, and among others, an artist which has been a major influence for one of us at the beginning of their China years, and a band that is arguably the best live act in China today. Track list: Wu-Chang Library 天東閣 / 沉默橙 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0ALfmwuJ5wJJlt3pn7SwFM?si=83ac3801144b4a5e 小难过 / Pumpkins 小南瓜 Spotify artist page: https://open.spotify.com/artist/6sNjrPpF5mA7AXH2X8FtlJ?si=Yno26lxxSG-0n3YSGmlBUw Waste Of Time / mengzhumeng Bandcamp: https://mengzhumeng.bandcamp...2025-06-0635 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: 小老虎 J-Fever, South Acid Mimi, GaiWaEr, C.S.B.Q, and more....Featuring one of China’s most respected hip-hop artists, 小老虎 J-Fever, but we also have some excellent tracks from Kunming, some heartfelt punk and more on this episode which comes a little late because of a few scheduling and technical issues on the editing side. Track List: 1. Lovers Of Highway, South Acid Mimi Bandcamp: https://southacidmimi.bandcamp.com/album/lovers-of-highway 2. Momentary Vortex 片刻旋螺, Cephalosis Bandcamp: https://cephalosis0.bandcamp.com/album/wuthering-heights Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/4CxDLRQYWtSENjNyDjEL2n?si=21c8e9117c774d23 3. Chromat...2025-05-2436 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Run Run Run, The Bootlegs, Instinkto Industrio, DJ 小女孩 and more...What a haul for this episode with tracks from some incredible artists spanning from a retro Cantopop-inspired offering, to various flavours of folk, experimental electronic music and a cool surf rock song that makes for a feel good episode of the Live China Music Podcast. Besides the bands and tracks featured here, we also mention several noteworthy labels and musicians such as experimental guitar master Li Jianhong, and Zhang Meng who’s recently released an interesting sheng-based record with Dusty Ballz Records from London, or BIE, another great record label based in China. Track List: 2025-05-1031 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Riot In School, Free Sex Shop, ADEAD, and more...In which we discuss a wide variety of tracks, from gqom to punk to jazz, all freshly released in China! Erratum: Please note that we realized after recording that the pronouns of ADEAD, one of the artists covered in this episode, are "they/it"! Track list: 1. //刻奇秀 / Riot In School Bandcamp: https://riotinschool.bandcamp.com/album/punk-rock-blasphemy 2. 聲音(Voices) / 聲聲聲乐队 3. Sisterhood / Free Sex Shop Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4K9p0YQfnoTnlaVFTtPp0b?si=l3iVTC7YTm-T2Jl2RjfDig 4. Pale Monsters / Love Letter Lost Spotify: https://open.s...2025-04-2635 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Smiqra, Procedural Justice, 紅髮少年殺人事件, and more...Does it feel like a lot of music is released in March, are there months where there’s a much higher volume of releases here? We have something for the metal fans today, a few tracks that show appreciation for and inspiration from Japanese music, and some good vibes. Please note this track has one occurence of foul language, for journalistic reasons! Track list: 1. Peer review by Oxen / Smiqra Bandcamp: https://hoplites.bandcamp.com/album/r-ya-dz-e 2. 富贵老登 (The Rich Elderly) / 程序正义 Procedural Justice 3. Yes, We love Number Girl / 紅髮少年殺人事件...2025-04-1238 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Lonely Cookies, Thermostat, Emo Cloud, and more...In this episode we cover a wide variety of new tracks, with some chill and fun tracks but also ones veering into breakcore and screamo. Track List: 1. Nothing Special, Just Singing All The Way (没啥特别的) Thermostat恒温 https://open.spotify.com/track/08DMYm5RgjTjpz6Rumzaqk?si=95b6a7fa5e434c7b 2. 世界第一自恋狂（World's No.1 Narcissist） 浪味仙贝 Lonely Cookies https://open.spotify.com/track/6srFL7c43ZYECmgKlfZ7YR?si=f05df74d759b45d7 3. 灰虹 Part2 匿名私聊乐队 Nemassle 4. Bloom And Decay (庆典) 散瞳散 San Tong San htt...2025-03-2933 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Green Deer, Wasted Laika, Mu Jing, and more...This episode covers protopunk rockabilly, a folk ballad, and various declinations of rock. Hope you'll enjoy and please support by sharing around, don't hesitate to reach out by finding us on instagram (livechinamusic). Tracks: 1. 青鹿 - 光,照不到的地方 Black Sun Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6MQ02KoiqPrOvGifca8TJD?si=43faecc9c5d04d66 2. 穆静MU - 牛羊 版权提供: 北河三(北京)文化传媒有限公司 词曲: 穆静 表演者: 穆静 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/5uT1cQsvdLx1glwW5EaMeb?si=ac43e97357f04d45 3. 白麝香TheWhiteMusk - Leather Biker Bandcamp: https://thewhitemusk.bandcamp.com/track/leather-biker 4. ihateEmmett - Chronic Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/6jf7p3WKdgHXnDUAp5qdbI?si=9...2025-03-1532 minLive China Music PodcastNew Releases: Twinklestar, 施鑫文月, Lumi Liu, 饭卡In this episode, our sound benefits from a little help from a friend. And we cover fewer tracks to keep it within a reasonable listening time. 00:00 Intro Tracks: 1. 01:24 Clouds / 施鑫文月 https://open.spotify.com/track/57plpQi7uc04O35JoYx1tR?si=325fc49ecc754107 2. 07:07 Space Ship / Lumi Liu 刘敏 https://open.spotify.com/track/1vkRiPstiPeCRUXrV4CICv?si=4812fef7d0d840c0 3. 13:42 ēmOLè (是谁emo了) / Twinklestar https://open.spotify.com/track/52XvChC7JAPDjhcTJXoTkb?si=3fa40c2a6d444f40 4. 19:58 冬季一人食 / 饭卡 2025-03-0125 minLive China Music PodcastNew releases: The Cheers Cheers, Khunathi, Jellyeeee and many more!This is our very first episode! It is a bit long, the recording is not best, but the content is the freshest you can get on releases happening in China right now! Track list (band or artist name / track name): Wishtoday / 广岛之恋还有哥伦比亚可乐是我们的最后一场演出 The Cheers Cheers / Forest of Mine Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3VPEr31bM31PuG2RiIg0VX?si=0bkdbOAaRQuUHlrKuIPWFw GUAN / itch Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2yjsBPdhHNFi4vUHjqhjkB?si=a038e3eac0eb4666 黑木 / 通往依斯的路程 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3Am6r1BWbb2DS5Zi07zGAX?si=8a30c2bf472f40b0 Khunathi / Misty Mountain Pagoda Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track...2025-02-2239 minLive China Music PodcastLive China Music Podcast: introduction to the showHave you ever wondered why a country with a population of 1.4 billion people hasn’t produced a global superstar yet? China’s music scene is rich, diverse, and colorful but hardly ever reaches other countries. Those of you into classical music probably heard of Lang Lang and Yo-Yo Ma, if into post-rock then Wang Wen and Chinese Football are names you might be familiar with, and the metalheads out there could possibly have heard of Nine Treasures. But these bands barely scrape the top of the iceberg. Will Griffith, founder of the longest lasting blog on Ch...2025-02-1601 min