“Unsavable”, is from Heat Mark‘s latest album “Not Bad,” which was released in August 2020. This was the first album that the band had released in three years. The production of "Unsavable" was driven by the “independent core” of Heat Mark, which involves the presence of pure rock music with the minimalist arrangement of guitar and bass drum.
Landfill is a rock band from Guangzhou and was formed in 2014 by four young middle-class teens from Christian family backgrounds. The band is deeply influenced by alternative rock from the 90s and their music style incorporates a large number of genres like garage punk, grunge rock, and noise rock. Their music centers a lot around the idea of self-salvation and the creation of the world.
Sonically introverted riot with noise and indie rock, narrative-driven vibe flow along with the vocal- Alawu who still holding the genuine tonality of British post punk, Berlin Psycho Nurses was founded by these programmer gang from City Changsha in 2017, encountered Chinese urban become cradle place for indie music development.
Electric Cherry is a mixed electronic band duo that has one of the most charming electric group female voices in China.
Their debut album “Baby, I Hear the Voice of the Galaxy” produced by Caotai Echo (a Beijing music label) is a wide range of electronic music elements created by the band’s keyboardist ranging from retro and bright Disco and House to blurry modern Hip-Hop, Techno, Trance, and Future Bass.
Wasted Laika is a punk-rock band from Beijing that debuted back in 2017. Within the first three years of their artist career, the band has performed on five national tours and created several DIY projects. In 2019, the band produced and released two EPs: “The Plain of Forgetfulness” and “Little Storm.”
Introducing themselves as “the only art rock band in China,” The Peppercorns is a band from Beijing that identifies their music with the sub-genre of rock music, art rock. Aside from being influenced by classic rock music, several other genres influence the presence of art rock, such as experimental rock, avant-garde music, psychedelic music, folk music, baroque pop, and jazz.
Born in the underground music scene in Chengdu, a Southwestern Chinese city, JahWahZoo is composed of seven experienced musicians that jokingly call themselves “Smog Reggae”. Although reggae music is not the most popular genre of music in the country, the band has been able to grow rapidly in this new wave of music.
An Indie Rock band made up of three members —Jane Dan, Simon Liu, and Guo Weilun—all who come from Qinzhou, a small city in China. Though their music mainly revolves around the presence of guitar riffs and simple instruments, the band plays around with other various beats and genres, such as retro disco and punk rock.
Just like their name, Shouting Nerd’s music strives to represent the emotions and society of the younger generation. Shouting Nerd also hopes to express their music with calm lyrics, passionate melodies, and elaborate instrumentals – using combinations of these to symbolize youth culture.
WHAI can be described as one of China’s original psychedelic bands. Although WHAI has been established for 8 years, the band has always been low-key and only focused on creating music instead of marketing. Whether it is WHAI's music, band name, or the impression they have always given, the band gives off a soothing and calm aura.
FancyWall was founded in 2013 by four middle schoolers, and they decided on their band name, “FancyWall”, two years later on a walk home from school. The band consists of young members, the youngest being born after the 2000’s.
FancyWall released its new album "Millennium Eden" in 2019, and also released new singles this year. In their album, the band expresses the music and attitude of today’s generation of youth by incorporating their “ridiculousness” and “lack of humor.” FancyWall’s National
Peach Illusion was founded in 2018 in the city of Shanghai. Their music is said to be dreamy and romantic, or in other words, as sweet as a peach illusion. If you go to their Weibo and WeChat public accounts, you will find that they love life and love to share that love with their fans – whether it is the songs they recently listened to, their favorite artists, movies, books, or any aspect of their daily life.
QianChuan Drugstore is comprised of six members, where most of the members of attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Last year in 2019, the band released their first album, “Blurry Century” focusing on the theme of “Time, Era”. Upon its release, many of the songs from the album were also selected by a variety of music bloggers as one of their best new songs of the month.
LongTravel consists of four young men from Sichuan and Shandong. Starting from a young age, they expressed their cheerfulness and youthful spirit in a direct manner. Thus, growing older, they took this spirit and put it towards their music.
