With all the shows lined up for the Qing Ming Holiday (most of which are under the Sound of the Xity 影响城市之声 banner) it would be quite easy to overlook a show because I’m not familiar with the band’s name. Luckily for me a friend happened to give me a heads up about Sound Toy [...]
Tags: sound of the Xity, sound toy, yugong yishan
For all the Post-Rock fans out there (BD, you’re excluded from this one!) local label 1724 records has put together a great little compilation album featuring 6 of the city’s Post-Rock bands: Illness Sickness, pentatonic, The Grinding Ear, Glow Curve, Sparrow and Hualun. You can grab the download for free, yes, FREE! on their bandcamp [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, grinding ear, hualun, illness sickness, Mao Livehouse, pentatonic, post rock, sparrow
It’s been around 8 months since I last saw AIS play, but the long awaited (for me at least!) reunion of last year’s China GBoB winning band finally happened last Saturday at Yugong Yishan, with their friends Bye, Bye Thanks for the Fish and Flaming Heat in support. Even Shanghai’s intriguing performance noise band Torturing [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, bye bye thanks for the fish, flaming heat, yugong yishan
D22’s zooming nights may have been put on hiatus with the venue’s closure earlier this year, but the city’s experimental musicians came out of hibernation last weekend, joined by fellow noise makers from around China for the 4th (semi-) annual Sally Can’t Dance festival. Though not a huge fan of this style of music, I [...]
Tags: D22, di'anmen space, experimental, jazz, li daiguo, sally can't dance, Torturing Nurse, xiao he, yan yulong, zhang shouwang
There’s metal, and then there’s the metal I like … which tends to be the original 70′s bands I grew up listening to or more melodic styles, definitely not death or black metal. So when I heard Swedish death metal band Opeth were coming to Beijing, initially I didn’t pay much attention to it. But [...]
Tags: Kaiser Kuo, Metal, Opeth, sweden, tango
Friday saw the start of ‘Swedish weekend’ here in Beijing (and you didn’t even need to go to IKEA, although some of my friends actually did!) with Post Rockers Immanu El on Friday at Mao & Death Metal from Opeth Saturday at Tango (more coming on that later). It’s no secret I’m a post rock [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, immanu el, Mao Livehouse, post rock, sweden
If you’ve been to 2 Kolegas before, you’ll know things don’t really start happening out at the drive–in before around 10.30ish. And if you’d turned up around that time last Saturday you would have seen a great show from Sparrow, DH & the Hellcats and The K that stretched on until the early hours of [...]
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