They can be dandy boys singing Haifeng folk songs, mad men jamming Pearl Delta blues, New Wave surfers playing Canton Pop music. They are the native Chinese-style psychedelic rock 'n' roll. They can work magic both in livehouses and variety shows. They have taken down the boundaries between art and life, not bound by languages, regions, social classes or ages. They never stop pushing their limits and have made themselves known outside of fixed circle. They are indeed phenomenal not just in a Chinese youth sub-cultural sense, but also in a mass cultural sense. Wutiaoren was co-founded by Renke and Maotao in 2008. They have published 9 albums so far. They are true punks under the facade of folk singers, and true artists behind the masks of entertainers. They are the non-stopping never-ending mini show of the grand age. They thrive on live performance. They can turn the stage into a dancing hall from the end of the century, a hair salon in a urban village, and the unfinished and abandoned buildings in CBD. From temples and in the wilderness, they have created apocalyptic fantasy after fantasy transcending space and time. Their music is a bittersweet symphony of the migration of Chinese youths from the rural area to towns and cities, and finally into metropolises, an epic of the ups and downs of ordinary folks living in the times of globalization. Everything about Wutiaoren is rock 'n' roll. Everything about them is Chinese.
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They can be dandy boys singing Haifeng folk songs, mad men jamming Pearl Delta blues, New Wave surfers playing Canton Pop music. They are the native Chinese-style psychedelic rock 'n' roll. They can work magic both in livehouses and variety shows. They have taken down the boundaries between art and life, not bound by languages, regions, social classes or ages. They never stop pushing their limits and have made themselves known outside of fixed circle. They are indeed phenomenal not just in a Chinese youth sub-cultural sense, but also in a mass cultural sense. Wutiaoren was co-founded by Renke and Maotao in 2008. They have published 9 albums so far. They are true punks under the facade of folk singers, and true artists behind the masks of entertainers. They are the non-stopping never-ending mini show of the grand age. They thrive on live performance. They can turn the stage into a dancing hall from the end of the century, a hair salon in a urban village, and the unfinished and abandoned buildings in CBD. From temples and in the wilderness, they have created apocalyptic fantasy after fantasy transcending space and time. Their music is a bittersweet symphony of the migration of Chinese youths from the rural area to towns and cities, and finally into metropolises, an epic of the ups and downs of ordinary folks living in the times of globalization. Everything about Wutiaoren is rock 'n' roll. Everything about them is Chinese.
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