A strange weekend this shall be in Beijing with actually quite a few events around town in the next 4 days that are worth checking out. Of course this will also mark the second to last performance from Daisy Sweetgrass with The Redbucks before she goes stateside.
Thursday September 2:
Blackwater @ Jianghu:
Traditional Irish Folk [...]
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September 2, 2010
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Beijing Weekend Quickslants: Redbucks, Ember, Panbianr and mad drummers
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moon, blabbers
September 2, 2010
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The Free Bird: Helen Feng on Music, Leaving Pet Conspiracy and Chaneling a Voodoo priestess
By Beijing Daze in 10 Questions, Beijing 人, Tunes under the moonah! Helen Feng… A favorite ‘daze crush and one of Beijing’s premier musical personalities winning multiple awards and accolades from the likes of Time Out and MIDI. I’ve been closely following her over the past year ( I swear it’s not stalking) and enjoying every opportunity to see her perform. Plenty of rumors have been [...]
Tags: free the birds, Helen Feng, Pet Conspiracy, ZIYO
August 31, 2010
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Goodbye Miss Daisy…
By Beijing Daze in Beijing 人, Tunes under the moon, blabbersIt’s a sad day in ‘daze headquarters…
wow.. I still remember roughly about two years ago or so, hanging out at TUN on a tuesday night for open mic night with Beijing Rob and Johnny Boy, taking in the music coming from the stage but mostly having some sort of conversation when this angelic voice [...]
Tags: Daisy Sweetgrass, The Redbucks
August 31, 2010
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Hang on the Box returns, sort of.. and my first time at Hot Cat Club
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moon, blabbersThere were a few things happening last saturday in Beijing in terms of entertainment but your truly was particularly curious about one of them events: Hang on the Box relaunching at Hot Cat Club on the same bill as Rustic, The Dancers and 诱导社 Lure. It was also a good chance to finally check out [...]
Tags: Hang on The Box, rustic, The Dancers
August 30, 2010
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Hot List #4: Chasing Stars shakes, Bigger Bang booms, Free the Birds shines and The Face screams
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moonThis has been one hell of an interested weekend all over Beijing with great performances, once in a lifetime events, reunions, festivals and what not. I was dead set on the Back to Basics concert at Workers Stadium for Friday night but I ended up at Yugong Yishan instead for Zippo Hot List with Chasing [...]
Tags: Bigger Bang, free the birds, The Face, Yugong Yi, Zippo Hot List, ZIYO, 追星族 Chasing Star
August 27, 2010
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Na Jia Xiao Guan Revisited: Manchuria Still Rules My Stomach in Beijing
By Beijing Daze in Belly TiesI’ve said it before and I’ll start this by saying it again: I’d much rather go to a mid-high end Chinese restaurant in Beijing than one of the 1000 mediocre and sorry excuses for a western restaurant pretending to be the best thing since sliced bread!
Na Jia Xiao Guan 那家小馆 is a one of [...]
Tags: manchurian, na jia xiao guan
August 25, 2010
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News to Ooze and music quickslants all in one: HOTB is back, ZIYO lineup and the Old guard
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moon, blabbersThis week’s shows:
Ok.. No real quickslants this week in music as all the good gigs seem to be happening on friday with one or two exceptions: Back to Basic at the worker’s stadium with the old guard that is uniting for the first time ever on the same bill with Cui Jian, Tang Dynasty, Black [...]
Tags: Cui Jian, free the birds, Hang on The Box, tang dynasty, wu & side effects, ZIYO, 追星族 Chasing Star
August 24, 2010
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Max Star day 6: For those about to rock under the pouring rain, we salute you!
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moonWas that rain or was it rain this past saturday in Beijing? that was precipitations of biblical proportion folks and it made for one hell of a wet day for yours truly.
I was supposed to catch the Punk Festival at Mao then head on to Ditan Park but for once, Mao decided to get [...]
Tags: Brain Failure, carsick cars, Max Star Festival, Nancheng Brother, Twisted Machine, xie tianxiao
August 24, 2010
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Global Times seeking controversy where there is none or are they?
By Beijing Daze in blabbersI usually try keep things simple and mostly blog about shows i go to and restaurants I eat at without overanalyzing things.. not really much into commenting on other people’s articles but I’m gonna make an exception this time around thanks to the good folks at Global Times and two of their articles I came [...]
Tags: global times
August 23, 2010
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Shonen Knife reminds Beijing of what music is all about: good times, good fun, great show!
By Beijing Daze in Tunes under the moonAbout two weeks ago, I had no idea who Shonen Knife were.. fast forward to the present: I love them to bits and think they’re one of the most fun bands to watch. I was lucky enough to catch them this past Friday, along with a bunch a friends, at Mao Live for their first [...]
Tags: shonen knife
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