Quickslants: Made in Madness, Big Picture, ReTROs time and Mao Crowns them
Gee, the time of no music seems so far away right now with an avalanche of good shows scheduled over the next few days. We’ve got a weekend with all flavors and tastes of...
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News to Ooze: Mao Live Awards, Zhang Si’An, Bad Mamasan and more
With concerts back on the menu, so are news and happenings, new records and what not. so what’s been cooking over in Beijing land? The Redbucks, in their original incarnation, are pretty much done....
Weekend Quickslants: Music, Art and Sex Toys – a little something for everyone
While BD is away sipping cocktails on the beaches of Vietnam, the rest of us here are braving the icy Beijing winds looking for places to escape the cold. Things will soon be winding...
Flash News: Beijing’s Amazing Insurance Salesmen wins Global Battle of the Bands China 2010!
Pics courtesy of Ng Ka Wing’s Facebook Page I’ve spent the last few hours anxious about the results for GBoB China which took place sunday night in Hong Kong hoping that Beijing’s own AIS...
Whores from Chongqing, Talent, Tattoos and 1000 cooks: 10 questions with AIS drummer, Mao Mao
Not all drummers are created equal and most of them are fairly anonymous, quite happy to stay back and keep the beat going. Mao Mao 毛毛is not one of those!!! I’ve been enjoying this...
Beijing Live Music Quickslants: Mamer, White Eyes, Wong Faye, and molto vino
The weekend is rolling around with some really cool shows on the horizon folks and some of them are actually worth braving the cold for. Thursday November 4: Mamer, Li Tieqiao & Dawanggang @...
GBoB 2010: Amazing Insurance Salesmen win a close one and the behind-the-scenes intrigue.
As I posted on monday, good Beijingdaze.com friends, The Amazing Insurance Salesmen, won the Beijing leg of the 2010 Global Battle of the Bands and with it the right to head to Hong Kong...
New Beijing Global Battle of the Bands Winners: The Amazing Insurance Salesmen
Ladies and Gentlemen, your 2010 Global Battle of the Bands winners for the Beijing leg of the competition were …….drum roll .. .. The Amazing Insurance Salesmen! Congratulations to Jean Sebastien, Maikel and Mao...
Lonely China Day Bores Yugong Yishan While the Insurance Salesmen Deliver
I’ve been hearing a lot about Lonely China Days from industry pundits and local expat rags with the band getting high marks for originality, integrity and musicality. I had planned to catch them a...
Beijing Live Music Quickslants: Yugong turns 6, Hangai mini festival and wines galore
A whole lotta shaking going on this week folks! With the official ‘daze #1 crush leaving, yours truly is free to focus again on music as opposed to worrying about excessive drooling. Interesting variety...
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