Like I warned yesterday, you’re not done reading the name “Jon Campbell” on this blog, at least not for this week. I believe I’ve already interviewed Jon before before, albeit more for gigs he was playing in. This time around, it’s different! He’s in Beijing as part of Jue Festival and the Bookworm Literary Festival [...]
Tags: black cat bone, jon campbell, jue festival, Red Rock, SUBS
The upcoming Jue Festival (March 9-25) was primed last night by Brooklynites Pains of Being Pure At Heart at Yugong Yishan, their relatively short set finally giving some context to the hype and many reviews. Fortunately they don’t care about either of those things, and frontman Kip Berman provided a thoughtful interview on getting reviewed, [...]
Jurat is one of those guys you’ve seen around Beijing over the past few years sitting at the table next to you at the restaurant in Gulou or sipping tea somewhere down a hutong hole-in-a-wall. He’s been playing around the city for a few years already persevering through a number of setbacks with too many [...]
Tags: jurat, Jurat T.T., Mamer
It’s been quite a while since the last batch of 10 questions on ‘daze so it’s about time we get back to those. First up, Pet Conspiracy. This is a strange interview for me to have up there considering my general lack of appreciation of electronic music and how much I cared for the previous [...]
When Ruby sat down to write a review and comments on Alan Paul’s appearance at the bookworm on Tuesday, I don’t think she realized what can of worms she would be opening. I didn’t either! Truth be said, I never met the gentleman but I had good dealing with him last year via email and [...]
Tags: Alan Paul, Woodie Alan
Extremely charismatic frontman, never out of sunglasses, looking all rock n roll with a style. Meet the voice of Rustic, Lucifer Li. Ruby had done an interview with Lucifer last year ahead of one of their shows. Now, I get to catchup with him before the album launch and see what’s he’s been up to. [...]
Tags: Lucifer Li, rustic
Bleached out-of-control hair, crotchless pants, wild antics and an obsession for all things Motley Crue amongst others. Those are just some of the descriptive that can be used when referring to Rustic‘s bass player, Ricky Sixx. I relate to him more than other musicians because we do have that Nikki Sixx obsession and liking for [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, ricky sixx, rikki sixx, rustic
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