• Chinese heavy metal band Tang Dynasty performs a concert in Xi'an 2004 (photo: Wikimedia/Paul Louis)
    Short Essay
    Fuelled by the new sounds that entered China's illegal doorways, and driven by a desire to move beyond the stereotypical hard rock idiom, new bands started to experiment with different sounds. Today, sounds ranging from hardcore punk to deep house can be heard from Urumqi to Beijing. Let's get dakou'ed!