After nearly a decade as the go-to, late-night hangout for musicians, artists and travelers alike, Chengdu’s beloved bar and venue Steam Hostel has closed its doors for the last time. Another one bites the dust — Steam is the latest casualty to fall to the pressure of prolonged business closures and wilting tourism, just weeksContinueContinue reading “Farewell, Steam Hostel”
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From Dog to Pig
Happy New Year everyone. Chinese New Year feels like a grace period, a second shot at beginning again. All the shops are closed, the streets are empty. It’s as if the past hazy month since New Year’s was actually just a gaping hole in the space time continuum which gets miraculously gobbled up into theContinueContinue reading “From Dog to Pig”
Self-organised, self-aware, self-destructive, this is XI’ER.
朋友们好 早在五月，我收到朋友一笑的微信说她带着“喜儿”在成都和重庆演出的想法。“喜儿”是三位女巫般的姑娘的合成器电子乐队南方酸性咪咪的朋克根源乐队。 What up fam Back in May, I got a message from my friend Yixiao about coming to play in Chengdu and Chongqing with XI’ER, the predecessor punk band to electronic witch-synth trio South Acid MiMi. When I first met Yixiao, Shishi and Weilin in 2015, I’d already been indoctrinated into the cult of South Acid Mimi,ContinueContinue reading “Self-organised, self-aware, self-destructive, this is XI’ER.”
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