Imperial China is an experimental punk rock trio from Washington, DC, featuring Matt Johnson, Brian Porter, and Patrick Gough. Gough was in the 1990s band Pitchblende, which recorded for Cargo, Matador, Jade Tree, and Simple Machines. Imperial China began in January 2007 and self-released their debut four-song EP, "Methods:" in April 2008. The band followed up with a nine-song album in February 2010 called "Phosphenes," a split release on DC labels Sockets and Ruffian. The group is playing out and about as much as possible and writing new songs in 2010, and hopes to go back into the studio to record a new album in early 2011. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.