There's clearly a western bias to the fact that before Covid the only thing that non-Chinese people knew about Wuhan, if anything (and I'm including myself in that), is that it's the Detroit of the Chinese music scene. I asked a colleague from Wuhan about it once and she said she had never heard anything about it at all.

That said, this morning Google Nest read me some variation of this story about how the indie live houses opening up again, and I was just glad that there was a national news story about Wuhan that was about anything other than Covid -- I guess this does also count as a "life getting back to normal" Covid story, but I'll take it.

  • TheOldRazzleDazzle [he/him]
    hexagon
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    4 years ago

    Detroit like MC5 and the Stooges.

    The article mentions these guys as the old guard of the garage rock scene: 生命之饼 (Bread of Life): https://youtu.be/AstEkQKzD4w

    As it happens, depending on the song I'd put them somewhere on the intersection of the Pogues and Gogol Bordello.