Josh Feola

2 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | Josh Feola

April 2025 Josh Feola compiles an annotated playlist to accompany his report on the Danish capital’s DIY underground in The Wire 495 A diverse group of Copenhagen artists charge the city’s cultural landscape with politically engaged, community-driven work rooted in alternative spaces like Kapelvej 44, a long-running hub for art and activism now threatened by gentrification.

Jul 2, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Josh Feola

FEATURES Xiaowang Keeps the Dream Alive in Beijing’s Embattled DIY Scene By Josh Feola · Illustration by Chau Luong · July 02, 2024 Beijing’s underground music scene has been DIY by default for most of its history.

Jun 6, 2024 | radii.co | Josh Feola

If you’ve been to experimental music gig, DJ night, gallery opening, or skate spot in Beijing in over the past decade, you may well have bumped into Jeff Yiu. And even if you’ve just been following subcultural goings-on in China’s capital remotely, there’s a good chance you’ve seen his photography, which documents everything from noise performances to collections from emerging fashion designers.

May 23, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Josh Feola

LABEL PROFILE Taking Stock of SVBKVLT’s Global Club Offerings By Josh Feola · May 23, 2024 Now in its 12th year, electronic music label SVBKVLT is entering a new phase as a global entity with a roster of contributors from virtually every continent. Its complex international network grew from a hyperlocal event in Shanghai, evolving alongside some of the city’s most important incubators of club culture.

Jan 17, 2024 | daily.bandcamp.com | Josh Feola

LISTS Cowpunk Past & Present By Josh Feola · January 17, 2024 If “cowboy” and “punk” are both words with nebulous and contested meanings, cowpunk has that problem squared. On one hand, as a genre tag, it’s self-explanatory: punk rock + cowboy music/country. It started popping up in dictionaries around 1979 as a general descriptor of music blending the two.