As much as I wanted to hangout with the Santas on Saturday and make the most of a rare not so cold, blue sky day in the Jing, I also wanted even more to head into the big warm dark cave that is Tango 3rd Floor and spend the entire day watching bands, drinking beer [...]
Tags: gala, hao yun, Liquid Oxygen Can, long shen dao, louqi, MIDI Awards 2011, Miserable Faith, modern sky, ordnance, Pet Conspiracy, Steely Heart, voodoo kungfu, yaksa, zuoxiao zuzhou
Ho Ho Ho, it’s that time of year again, where we all don Santa suits and roam the streets and bars of Beijing spreading goodwill and drunken cheer! This year marks the third official Santacon in Beijing, and Santa’s got a few secrets up his sleeve to make this the biggest and best yet. Daze [...]
It’s been quieter than usual over here with gig reviews mostly because it’s been quite repeptitive over the past few weeks with nothing too exciting. There will be a gig review of the Dawanggang show from Saturday night but not much more… a few news and notes though: I got to see Twinkle Star a [...]
Tags: Blue Stream, devils at the crossroads, illness sickness, jurat, Lamb of God, Opeth, Steely Heart, Temple, Twinkle Star
The last few months haven’t brought many interesting gigs on weekdays for whatever reason or maybe i just haven’t been inclined to go check them out. Either ways, this past wednesday, i had a reason to head back to Mao Live midweek when Xi’An’s SUCKER were in town. I had seen them 6 months ago [...]
Tags: Lifetest, skinny man reggae, Sucker, Union Bunny
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
Beijing Weibo user, 北京号外, posted this picture of the mad rush jam on Beijing Line 4 subway this morning!!! So folks, you think you have it bad if you’re stuck in traffic for 45mn in a cozy and warm cab? think again! Apparently, the trains stopped running for a good 30mn and there was no [...]
Tags: beijing subway, people jam, traffic jam
Ah the good old days.. remember 2007? everything was peachy, the olympics around the corner and NIN, New York Dolls, Mark Ramone and Public Ennemy playing Beijing at the Chaoyang pop festival? probably the best festival i’ve seen so far in China still… I just came across this video of Nine Inch Nails doing “Head [...]
Tags: chaoyang pop festival, NIN in Beijing, Nine Inch Nails
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