I’m not sure I’ve entirely recovered from last weekend’s musical onslaught.. really folks! MIDI rocked the shit out of me, especially with an awesome Miserable Faith performance. Ningxia Night on Monday was special as usual and so were the other days.. Still, It’s thursday and time to see what else is happening over the next [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Bad Apples, Hanggai, hanggai festival, iz, Mamer, Residence A, The Argies, The On Fires, Twinkle Star
Hope you got some rest last weekend folks cause this upcoming one will require some serious stamina from all of you considering all the fun stuff taking place in Beijing over the next few days! so, what we got? Wednesday June 22nd: Misandao @ Mao: Misandao is tons of fun! I love these guys because [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, black cat bone, Black Snakes, Brain Failure, Casino Demon, Dancers, dazeFEAST, Dude, Ember Swift, Heavenly Stems, Jess Meider, Lidong, Maggie Who, Misandao, Nucleus, Prom Night, randy abel stable
2 Kolegas is getting a lot of the spotlight this weekend but they’re not the only game in town! The good folks over in suburbia, aka expat housewives-land, better known as shunyi, get their own rockfest: Rynostock I believe they’re in their 5th year with the 2011 edition set for Saturday May 28 at Pomme [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, Beijing Beatles, Maggie Who, Out of Control, randy abel stable, rynostock 2011
I might write about them less but that doesn’t mean the ‘daze crew has stopped going to shows.. far from it! It’s just been busy enough not to have time to address them all. Here is just a quick summary from the last week or so! Dude, Me Guan Me, Ghost Spardac and Christmas played [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, dongzi, Dude, Ghost Spardac, Lidong, made in ningxia, me guan me, Nucleus, Red Pirates, wu & side effects
I feel freaking spoiled and I’m loving the amazing musicians running around Beijing who are making it possible for me to get you guys all these tunes: We’ve already had: * Mademoiselle and her Gypsy Jazz * ChunQiu (Spring Autumn) with Mando-Metal * Black Cat Bone with their brand of Blooze * The angelic folky [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, Free Music, freebies, Michael Dallin
It was May 2008 if memory serves me right and we were having a few drinks at the Saddle Cantina when i got a phone call from a friend telling me about a show that night at the newly opened “The Boat” with these kids playing good rock n roll. I didn’t really have much [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, Beijing 人, Michael Dallin, yugong yishan
loads of things happening in Beijing lately, even during the holidays: – Made it to Folk Me fest at Mao Livehouse (map) yesterday. Line up included an “unknown” trio, The Redbucks, Hanggai and Buyi. I wish they stuck to the band rotation they list outside because it’s sometimes difficult to know who is who unless [...]
Tags: 2kolegas, Bad Apples, GAWTMY, Ginkgo, Jiang Jin Jiu Ba, Mao Livehouse, The Redbucks
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