Residence A lift the roof on a cold night at Hot Cat
There were so many shows on Friday night, I was struggling to pick from four I wanted to see! Hanggai & La Pegatina, Re-TROS and Chunqiu are all great bands, but the one I...
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Mako’s Post Rock Festival: 5 great bands, 1 awesome night of music
This show has been marked in my gig calendar for a long time and I’ve been patiently waiting for it to come. I already have albums of 3 of the 5 bands playing, but...
Temple of Nomad bring their traveler’s tunes to Beijing
Beijing is blessed with a great variety of musical offerings, you can get your fix of metal, folk, experimental, punk, reggae; anything you fancy. But it’s been awhile since I saw a show I...
Double Take: Glow Curve – Pedantically Progressive.
I first heard the name Glow Curve in an article Wang Ge wrote about Raying Temple back in June. A soundcloud link at the bottom of the article had 5 songs from different groups...
Rock n’ Roll is gonna save us – Arcane Saints preach to the choir at Mao
You know we’re biased here at Daze Central right? So when an Aussie band with a Kiwi singer turns up in Beijing there’s no way I’m missing this show. BD decided to skip this...
More Aussie tunes in the ‘Jing: Bone rock a sleepy Mao with Residence A & Yantiao
Awhile ago I wrote about how Sino Australian Music Exchange is doing awesome things sending Chinese bands to Australia and Australasian bands to China. I saw my hometown boys Die! Die! Die! at D22...
Black Rabbit Festival: big names draw a large laowai crowd
There was a lot of hype leading up to Saturday’s Black Rabbit Festival, big international acts were being billed alongside our local favourites in what was promised to be an international style festival. With...
Quickslants: Black Rabbit, AC/DC tribute, Tuvan world music
Ok, BD may be out of town this weekend, but the rest of us are here and ready to make the most what’s left of the warm weather! Heaps going on this weekend, but...
Follow the (White) Black Rabbit this weekend and don’t be late!
There’s been a lot of talk recently about a certain rabbit coming to town, and no, we’re not talking about the one who brings us chocolate or the one who lead Alice into Wonderland!...
Mao echoes with the sounds of the grasslands
Sunday has become the new Friday for me this summer with the festivals and battle of the bands competitions taking up both weekend days. But I’ve also managed to pop into Mao on the...
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever