Chinese indie band YOUNG DAN stoked outrage after an Instagram post on Monday that referred to Taiwan as part of China. The offending text in the post read, “From Guangxi to Taiwan, China" Read More
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A Reuters report stating that Taiwanese band Mayday was pressured by Chinese authorities, citing an anonymous source, has become an object of political contestation in Taiwan Read More
Coming off of a fifteen-city tour of Asia, LVRA’s soft like steel: reforged proves a strong reworking of the original album Read More
Shin Kamen Rider, the latest in Hideaki Anno’s “Shin” series reimagining Japanese classic television shows, is an effective action film and drama. If the film does not compare to the heights of 2016’s Shin Godzilla, it is still a cut above last year’s Shin Ultraman Read More
New Bloom's Brian Hioe spoke with obese.dogma777, rEmPiT g0dDe$$, and Lumi about Eastern Margins' recent Road 2 Redline tour of Southeast Asia, collaborating with artists that previously worked on their Redline Legends album, released in 2021. The tour included stops in Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Bandung, and Saigon Read More
New Bloom's Brian Hioe and Florence Yi-Hsun Huang interviewed Simon Reynolds about his views on contemporary music and reflections on his seminal work on electronic music, Energy Flash, a quarter decade after its publication. Reynolds was visiting Taipei for a series of talks at C-LAB entitled "A Future Slowly Cancelled" Read More
Brian Hioe spoke to Anna Luy Tan about 'Dance For Ukraine', an upcoming dance fundraiser for Ukrainian that will be held at Studio 9 in Ximen on Saturday, starting at 11 PM. Anna will be DJing, along with DJ Monty, and a special guest. All proceeds from the door will go to Ukraine Read More
The Taiwan Light Children Association will be holding a Christmas concert at the Central Petroleum Company’s Kuo-kuang Theater tomorrow night. The concert aims to have 250 in attendance, with tickets priced at 1,000 NT. The main performers for the event will be songwriters and performers Chang En and Gui Yao. Read More
Brian Hioe spoke to Ani Hao, who DJs as Ani Phoebe, and is a writer, feminist media strategist, as well as one of the founders of Bad Times Disco and New Wave, about Bad Times Disco's upcoming mutual aid fundraiser for migrant workers this Friday, December 16th at 7 PM in Hong Kong Read More
Brian Hioe spoke to Hong Kong DJ Finsent about his time in Macau during COVID-19 and how the scene in Macau and China has changed during COVID-19 Read More
Brian Hioe spoke to Margaret Tra from SYS Sister Sounds, a collective which runs DJ workshops for women and non-binary people in Vietnam, among other activities Read More
Brian Hioe spoke with LJC and Dirty K about their recent release on the EP Tokyo Renaissance/Kazumi, which also features WRACK and T5UMUT5UMU. Tokyo Renaissance/Kazumi was released on Eastern Margins and pays tribute to the Japanese genre of electronic music known as hyper techno, as a way to reclaim localized Asian dance music Read More