For all the Post-Rock fans out there (BD, you’re excluded from this one!) local label 1724 records has put together a great little compilation album featuring 6 of the city’s Post-Rock bands: Illness Sickness, pentatonic, The Grinding Ear, Glow Curve, Sparrow and Hualun. You can grab the download for free, yes, FREE! on their bandcamp [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, grinding ear, hualun, illness sickness, Mao Livehouse, pentatonic, post rock, sparrow
Some interesting changes taking place around Beijing’s music venue lineup over the past few weeks, let’s see what’s been up: D-22 is Dead, long live D-22? The yet unnamed venue that is supposed to become the new home of the noise/experimental/DIY underground had their first trial by fire last weekend as Ruby mentioned. Alex from [...]
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zine A zine ( /ˈziːn/ zeen; an abbreviation of fanzine, or magazine) is most commonly a small circulation publication of original or appropriated texts and images. More broadly, the term encompasses any self-published work of minority interest usually reproduced via photocopier. We haven’t really had a ‘zine in Beijing since the untimely demise [...]
Tags: jingweir, media review, zine, zine in Beijing
Things are heating up folks… It’s looking as if April and May 2012 will be filled with musical goodness! And I mean filled. More information on each even will follow in due time but for now, we’re gonna be looking at the freshly announced Hanggai Music Festival 2012. When: May 5 and 6th 2012 at [...]
Tags: dolan, Hanggai, hanggai festival, Nancheng Er Ge, Rhythm of Rajastan, Tiloun, Yemen Blues
Weibo is becoming essential in getting news out these day and Modern Sky is doing just that: They’ve just fired up a Weibo about the 2012 edition of Strawberry Festival. As you can tell, the dates are between the 29th of April and May 1st which is an interesting timeframe. The festival, according to the [...]
Tags: Ditan Folk Festival 2012, music festival, Strawberry 2012
Most of the time, I write utter crap on here… yeah, we’re full of it at ‘daze but every so often, we try and get serious, like now! And what’s more serious than a missing Beijing Beatle Beagle? Seriously folks, if you’ve seen this puppy running around the gulou area, give Gringo a call Help! [...]
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, [...]
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