- The punk band Hedgehog is fronted by vocalist Atom, who despite her small frame, is astonishingly energetic and powerful onstage.
- Kang Mao, singer for punk rock's Subs, takes a second-long break during an explosive live set.
- Legendary Beijing punks Joyside have toured China, Europe, and elsewhere -- leaving mosh pits wherever they roam.
- Sai Li
- Pet Conspiracy
- Guan Tou, of the group RWF.
- Wen Jun
- Rebuilding the Rights of Statues
- Du Wei, the guitarist for the rock band Convenience Store.
- Mafeisan are the colorful kings of the city's noise scene, named for a mythical anaesthetic that was said to cure all wounds incurred by war.
- A flyer for a D-22 show by illustrator Chairman Ca.
- Yao Lan, lead guitarist of folk rockers Second Hand Rose.
- Demerit, out of Qingdao now relocated to Beijing, have come to exemplify the city's spiked-out, street-punk style.
- Indie experimental act Girl Kill Girl could beat up any of the city's boy bands.
- Garage rockers The Gar know how to wail.
- Fox Pang poses with the kiddy keyboard he plays.
- Misandao
- A flyer for a show of Beijing standards at Yugong Yishan -- a huge checkerboard tiled dancehall of a rock club, hidden away behind a low facade of gray stone.
One of Beijing’s grungiest clubs is D-22, a slim sliver of a rock club in the city’s University district of Wudaokou. That was the hangout of Matthew Niederhauser, a documentary photographer fascinated by the scene he saw unfurling around him. Niederhauser started taking pictures of the bands and compiled the images for the book Sound Kapital, which includes prints of gorgeous show flyers by illustrator Chairman Ca and a CD with tracks from the city’s best bands.