China’s punk rock bands having shows - online

There hasn’t been a live music show in China since late January due to, coronavirus, enter - live-streaming, HyperAllergic reports. China’s musicians and promoters are organizing “bedroom music festivals” and live-streamed club nights. Initially, an idea hatched by VOX Livehouse, the legendary punk rock dive located in Wuhan, the city at the heart of the COVID-19 outbreak, the “live-streamed music festival” is now a nationwide craze, and genre, too, is no barrier. Options range from pop and hardcore punk to techno and experimental improvisation. What it means on a deeper level remains to be seen, but for now these events allow China’s so-called “anti-social generation” to redefine sociality their way.