<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-04-10T09:02:44+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/feed.xml</id><title type="html">CHINESE POSTPUNK ANTHOLOGY</title><subtitle>Chinese Postpunk Anthology is a collection of notes, translations, and fragments on independent music scenes across China, with a focus on post-punk and its margins.</subtitle><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><entry xml:lang="ja"><title type="html">C25: ベストオブ中国インディーロック2025</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2026-04-03-c25-ja/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="C25: ベストオブ中国インディーロック2025" /><published>2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-03T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/c25-ja</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="lists" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[年末なので今年リリースされた作品の中から特に印象深いものを振り返るコーナー。 ここに挙げた他にも素晴らしい作品が多くあることは承知しているが、すべて列挙するわけにもいかない。ご理解願いたい。 特に順位を設けているわけではなく、どこからでも随意に聴き始めてよいし、どんな順番でも構わない。一通りチェックしていただければ幸いというもの。 読むのはかったるいという向きもあるだろうから、Apple Music、Spotify、そして网易云音乐にプレイリストを用意した。各人お好みのプラットフォームで聴くといいだろう。曲順が異なるのは、揃える作業を億劫がったためだ。気にしないでほしい。 各サービスそれぞれに配信されていない楽曲があったりするものの、できる限りのことはした。権利者に要望を出せばもしかすると対応してくれるかも知れない。]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="ja"><title type="html">最初の記事</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2026-04-02-first-post/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="最初の記事" /><published>2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-04-02T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/first-post</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[テスト投稿です。]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">The Kids Who Fell for Rock and Never Left</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2026-03-30-the-fallacy-xinxiang/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="The Kids Who Fell for Rock and Never Left" /><published>2026-03-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-03-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/the-fallacy-xinxiang</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="texts" /><category term="Xinxiang" /><category term="The Fallacy" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[jagged, dissonant textures and sudden bursts of noise, chaotic and strangely beautiful, something you have never heard before]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Otaku Density Test: Female Bassist Edition</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2026-02-14-otaku-basist/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Otaku Density Test: Female Bassist Edition" /><published>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-02-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/otaku-basist</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="transcript" /><category term="translation" /><category term="interviews" /><category term="Silly Function" /><category term="Lonely Cookies" /><category term="Peach Illusion" /><category term="Wuhan" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[being surrounded by the things you love is what it means to have your dreams come true]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">C25: Essential Chinese Indie Releases 2025</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-12-25-c25-en/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="C25: Essential Chinese Indie Releases 2025" /><published>2025-12-25T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-12-25T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/c25-en</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="lists" /><category term="Chinese indie" /><category term="post-punk" /><category term="shoegaze" /><category term="emo" /><category term="2025" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[I am aware that there are many brilliant works that didn’t make it onto this list, but it’s impossible to include everything.]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="zh"><title type="html">专访北京独立流行计划恒温人员Thermostat</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-07-20-thermostat-interview-zh/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="专访北京独立流行计划恒温人员Thermostat" /><published>2025-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/thermostat-interview-zh</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="interviews" /><category term="thermostat" /><category term="indie pop" /><category term="dream pop" /><category term="shoegaze" /><category term="beijing" /><category term="lo-fi" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[There's a lot of emotion on the Daria EP, and overall it's a mood change from down to positive]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Interview with Thermostat</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-07-20-thermostat-interview/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Interview with Thermostat" /><published>2025-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-07-20T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/thermostat-interview</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="interviews" /><category term="thermostat" /><category term="indie pop" /><category term="dream pop" /><category term="shoegaze" /><category term="beijing" /><category term="lo-fi" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[There's a lot of emotion on the Daria EP, and overall it's a mood change from down to positive]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-05-31-ricky-maymi-beijing-underground/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Ricky Maymi and Beijing Underground" /><published>2025-05-31T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-05-31T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/ricky-maymi-beijing-underground</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="texts" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Maymi's first encounter with Beijing's underground dates back to 2012. The music blew his mind. He sensed in it a dynamism long lost in Western rock]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">Interview with Aya (Instinkto Industrio)</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-05-13-aya-instinkto-industrio-interview/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Interview with Aya (Instinkto Industrio)" /><published>2025-05-13T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-05-13T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/aya-instinkto-industrio-interview</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="interviews" /><category term="kunming" /><category term="flute" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[does this really have that kind of broad appeal? we're not entirely sure we understand it ourselves]]></summary></entry><entry xml:lang="en"><title type="html">9 DIY Labels from the Southern Indie Scene</title><link href="http://www.tomaverlaine.com/2025-04-23-9-southern-diy-labels/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="9 DIY Labels from the Southern Indie Scene" /><published>2025-04-23T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2025-04-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>http://www.tomaverlaine.com/9-southern-diy-labels</id><author><name>Toma Verlaine</name></author><category term="lists" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Around 2010, a DIY-oriented music movement driven by young people influenced by indie music from the 1980s and ’90s began to emerge along China’s southern coastal corridor, from Shanghai down to Guangzhou. Those with a taste for this kind of music were very much a minority, but they connected with each other through social media and chat apps, building a network that crossed city lines. A natural outgrowth of this was the tendency to start labels with friends.]]></summary></entry></feed>