Chinese Punk, Japanese Jazz

Whatever it is that made jazz more than the deflated anglo-suburban endeavor it's become in the US, they've got it in Japan.

The Seatbelts -


This is action-jazz, like we used to have here. So I've read in books. Anyway, wow:


China's also showing us up, but they've sprouted a punk movement.

Joyside -


Whole teams of coolhunters and ethnographers have been deployed to answer the big questions: How did this happen? How can we sell it? NPR answers both questions. There are a lot of good reasons to be punk in China, so I think we should let them keep it. We were just turning it into punk-pop anyway.

Carsick Cars -


See Also: Snapline

"Adopt, Adapt, Adept", indeed.