Taiwanese Rock

The Taiwanese rock scene is nurtured by regular festivals, notably the annual

Spring Scream The Spring Scream () is an outdoor music festival held in early April each year at Kenting, Pingtung County, Taiwan. The festival showcases a variety of music styles from bands both from Taiwan and overseas. Each year the festival adds the name ...

, Hohaiyan and Formoz festivals. Major Taiwanese rock acts include: *

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Blacklist Studio Blacklist Studio () was a group of Taiwanese musicians who came together and released a ground-breaking album in 1989 called ''Songs of Madness'' (). Reportedly five years in the making, this work came out at a critical juncture in Taiwan's histo ...

Chang Chen-yue Chang Chen-yue (; born 2 May 1974), also known as A-Yue and by his Amis name Ayal Komod, is an aboriginal Taiwanese rock and Hip-Hop musician, songwriter, singer and guitarist, and the frontman of his band, Free Night, also known as Free9. He ...

* Cherry Boom *

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Dong Cheng Wei Dong Cheng Wei () is a Taiwanese rock band. It was an underground band that was formed during the band members' high school years. It gain certained amount of popularity because of the success of the lead vocal, Jiro Wang and the TV appearances ...

Elephant Gym Elephant Gym () is a math rock band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, founded in February 2012. The group consists of siblings KT Chang (bass) and Tell Chang (guitar), and drummer Chia-Chin Tu. The word "elephant" in the band name symbolizes their bass-dr ...

F.I.R. F.I.R. () is a Taiwanese pop rock band formed in 2004. The band consists of Lydia (lead vocals), Ian Chen (keyboards), and Real Huang (guitar, vocals). Producer Ian Chen formed his own band then recruited the other two members to form F.I.R. The ...

Fire EX. Fire Ex. () is a punk rock band from Kaohsiung, Taiwan, founded in 2000, which sings in both Taiwanese Hokkien and Mandarin Chinese. The group consists of Sam (vocals), Orio (guitar), Pipi (bass), and KG (drums). The band is known for their so ...

Guntzepaula Guntzepaula (In Mandarin : 槍擊潑辣) is a Taiwanese indie band formed in 2008, the band is currently composed of bassist/vocalist Black Tze (Tze-hao Haung 黃子豪), guitarist Agun (Yen-chieh Lien 連彥杰) and drummer Ming Yen (Ming-yen ...

LTK Commune LTK Commune (aka LTK, Taiwanese: ''Lô-chúi-khoe Kong-siā'' 濁水溪公社) is a well-known Taiwanese "underground" band founded in 1990. Their music has been variously described as having elements of punk, rock, nakasi, Taiwanese folk so ...

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Sodagreen Sodagreen (; stylized as sodagreen) is a Taiwanese indie band formed in 2001. Its members have been unchanged since 2003. Sodagreen emerged in the Taiwanese indie music scene after receiving the Grand Jury Award in the Hohaiyan Gongliau Rock Fes ...

* Sorry Youth * Sugar Plum Ferry *

Wu Bai Wu Chun-lin (; born 14 January 1968), better known by his stage name Wu Bai (), is a Taiwanese rock singer, songwriter and actor. He formed the band Wu Bai & China Blue with Dean Zavolta (drums), Yu Ta-hao (keyboards) and Chu Chien-hui (bass gui ...

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