Live China Music Podcast
Have 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 China’s indie scene, Live China Music, and myself, Elie Rosenberg, hope to take you on a discovery of this bubbling music scene, with new episodes every two weeks covering the latest releases. We will focus on emerging artists, although if a particularly noteworthy track comes out from an established or legacy act, we won’t fail to mention it. All the music we cover is from artists based in China.
Episodes
We are rusty but we are back, with a new season starting, catching up in this episode on a few tracks released during the summer of 2025.
Track List:
1. whetherday/ Things we ever said began
Bandcamp: https://whetherday.bandcamp.com/track/things-we-ever-said-began
2. 有话 A Fishy Tale/ 留位
Bandcamp: https://afishytale.bandcamp.com/track/-
3. Characterless 性格缺失/ 盲人诗人
Netease: https://music.163.com/#/album?id=277783646
4. ...
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 musi...
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
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
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. M...
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 experiment...
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. Sisterh...
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 Ox...
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 ...
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
...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
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
- GUAN / itch
- Spotify: https://open.spotify...
Have 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 metalh...
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