Sub jam 1998

Originally designed to be the house program for the Spring of New Music festival scheduled for April 1998 in Lanzhou, Gansu province, Sub jam turned out to be a one-issue zine in memory of the festival, which got canceled. Yan Jun, editor of the zine and organizer of the festival, planned to invite 15 bands from China’s provinces to showcase the development of rock music outside the epicenter, Beijing. Some of those bands who are better known today include PK14 (Nanjing), Shetou (Ürümchi), ZMZB (Wuhan), and Pangu (Nanchang). The zine provides not only information about these bands, but also writings on the general development of rock music in various regions of China, which makes it a must-read for researchers of Chinese rock music in the 1990s.