We talk a lot about bands breaking up, artists starting new projects, new albums, etc… all the news from the music scene! What we don’t bring up often enough is the people that keep us informed about the music scene and how important/influential they can be. We also rarely take the time to thank them, [...]
Tags: Michelle Dai, Music Editor, The Beijinger
There’s been a lot of noise around Beijing recently with an infamous artist writing a piece about how Beijing has lost it among others. There’s also been a lot of bickering in the press and the discussion forums about traffic, increased cost of life, pollution and what not! What’s happening to the city? The first [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, david moser, jeremy goldkorn, Kaiser Kuo
In Bloglands, 5 years is an eternity… to keep something going for that long takes dedication, especially when it’s non-profit and mostly unrewarded! Well, today, our buddy Froog is celebrating 5 years of blogging over at the Beijing-centric Round-The-World Barstool Blues (sorry, needs Vee Pee En) http://thebarprop.blogspot.com/ Froog has been around Beijing for quite some [...]
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
Not many laowai can claim to have become ‘Big in China’, the only person I can think of would be DaShan maybe? Well, Alan Paul can also claim that title, or at least he does in making that the name of his book about life in Beijing as a trailing spouse and ‘rock star’. I’ve [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, bookworm, jianghu, live music
For most folks in Beijing nowadays, you probably won’t relate… those that were here pre-olympics on the other hand might get a bit of a twitch at the news. Jacky “Suga Mama” Staton, who used to serenade us at The Big Easy with her soulful Jazz and Gospel for many years, passed away. As far [...]
Tags: suga mama
As I mentioned a few months ago, when I had the chance to conduct a first interview with Marie-Claude LeBel, the one and only Montreal Minx, she was the first musician mentioned on Beijing Daze when it was all started… It seems so long ago but then again, things haven’t changed much: Marie Claude is [...]
Tags: Beijing 人, li dong, mademoiselle, mademoiselle et les chinoix
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
The Food-related posts are stopping on 'daze! They have a new home over at The Noodle Diaries where you can find all the tales of my stomach's adventures through the universe of Chinese Food
