"If you want Vietnamese rock to carve its own place in the music industry, the first thing that artists should do is to change their activities and views, to be more professional," Trung reiterated.

Licensed to Rock. Retired Air Force general Merrill McPeak opens The Vietnam War’s eighth episode with commentary on music’s role in the cultural revolution coinciding with the war. “The ...

Amid the bustling Vietnamese music market with the strong rise of pop-ballad, rap and R&B, rock music has been quiet for nearly 10 years. The number of people playing and listening to rock has been ...

HANOI, Vietnam -- Nguyen Yen Thi had a rock 'n' roll fantasy: She'd play the bass in an all-girl band. Here in Vietnam, where ballads about unrequited love and valiant soldiers dominate the ...

The Legacy of Buc Tuong, the Band That Led Generations to Rock Music In Vietnam. Formed from humble beginnings in 1995, the band Bức Tường was one of the first successful Rock bands in ...

About four years ago, rap was viewed as underground music and few people listened to it, but now rap songs are always in the top 10 on Vietnamese music charts. In the late 1990s, rock began developing ...

The article, published Wednesday, notes that Buc Tuong, a five-member band formed in 1995, helped popularize the rock music genre in the domestic market. The band played a "pivotal role in the ...

For Vietnamese immigrant families who primarily fled from South Vietnam to the U.S. after the Vietnam War, this music offers a ... The garage rock riffs and swinging soul-funk heard on “Saigon ...

VietNam: Psychedelic Rock Gets Fierce : World Cafe With full beards, long hair and headbands, the band VietNam might come across as a gang of hippie drifters living in a '60s time warp.