It’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
I spend a lot of time out at shows trying to stay in touch with the music scene and writing about it as much as I can but really from a fan perspective. I do manage to get around the Gulou area, yugong yishan, 2 Kolegas etc… and have a good sense of the scene’s [...]
Tags: D-22, Pete DeMola
We roll tonight [We're on tonight] To the guitar bite Yeah, yeah, oh Stand up and be counted For what you are about to receive We are the dealers We’ll give you everything you need Hail hail to the good times ‘Cause rock has got the right of way We ain’t no legend, ain’t no [...]
So, if you’ve notice, the name Ruby has been popping up in the blog quite often lately from gig reviews to album reviews… She’s a dear friend whose as addicted to music and Beijing as I am… Sharing the same addictions, we naturally kept running into each other all over the place.. there was thought [...]
It ain’t no secret folks, I love me an honest to goodness good time getting down and dirty with some roots music and bourbon.. I do have a hillbilly bone in there, maybe more than one.. and The Redbucks appeal to it. I’ve been following those guys since the first time i spotted them at [...]
Tags: bluegrass, The Redbucks, yugong yishan
My first encounter with Checo “Il Roacho” Fernandez started with the sentence: “So you’re in the band that never showed up except the one night i left early” referring to my attempts at catching Wu & The Side Effects. In his defense, Checo was injured and couldn’t play. He also had to go back to [...]
Tags: Checo Fernandez, wu & side effects
I find myself on average at about 3 or 4 live shows each week and one person I’m almost certain to come across is Jaime Welton of Bad Mamasan & Black Cat Bone. Whether it’s at 2 Kolegas, Jianghu Jiu Ba or Haidian Park for MIDI, the mas is there up front banging his head [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, The Redbucks
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
