I’ve been trying to get the quickslants in early this week mostly for tonight’s show at Mako in support of the young Hasetie’er. Friday is gonna be one of those “it’s fucking hard to pick” which show to go to day with solid ass lineups all around town. Let’s get this baby started with my [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Brain Failure, CD Release 2012, CMCB, dawanggang, dongzi, hell city, iz, Liu Kun, low wormwood, ma tiao, Mamer, Mohanik, Never Before, Wan Xiaoli, yaksa
it started with a bang at 2 Kolegas as Buyi, Nucleus, Rustic and Subs rocked the hell out of the drive-in. That was one hell of a good show to start the year and remains in the top ten of best shows in Beijing for 2011. Many bands came, some vanished, others just took a [...]
Tags: abaji, AK 47, Bad Mamasan, best of 2011, Bigger Bang, Black Snakes, Chunqiu, concrete blonde, da bang, dazeFEAST, Hanggai, la pegatina, Last Choice, Out of Control, SUBS, thin man
There ain’t many blues rock bands in Beijing, at least not ones that play 70s style rock blues with a hint of early aerosmith, stones, muddy waters and the like.. and if they’re around, I haven’t seen them much! That is until last friday at 2 Kolegas when this little band I never heard off [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, skarving, The Power Powder
Man.. It’s Quickslants time already! This week has just flown past, I swear! Things got started yesterday at Temple with a lovely performance by the newly formed Lulu Galore & Sweet Leaf and we got a whole weekend to look forward to. It’s looking like a slightly understated weekend for livemusic in Beijing but in [...]
Tags: 16 min, Arrows Made of Desire, Bad Mamasan, carsic cars, discord, gumbleed, long shen dao, Lulu Galore & Sweet Leaf, open mic, perdel, skarving, SUBS, The Unsafe, wu tun, xiao he, yugong yishan
A couple of little ditties from the scene to hold you guys up! It’s looking like a busy weekend ahead but we’ll address that in the quickslants later this week! Remember The Unsafe ? I really dig the band and think they have interesting potential.. They showed up for an Ok set at the Punk [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Bad Mamasan, Kick Ass, muma, rustic, The Unsafe
Hiya Hiya Moving over at ‘daze HQ so we might be able to resume normal blogging operations as of this week. A lot of pics, reviews and news coming your way but we’re gonna start with an early edition of the quickslants because of a potentially VERY good show on Wednesday at Yugong Yishan…. so [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Bookswap, Ember Swift, Jess Meider, Ken Stringfellow, Kick Ass, Lao Liu, Los Crashers, Pierre Brahin Trio, Reggae Party
This in from our buddies in Bad Mamasan: Also a little news and change to come…. As things go here with expat life, success often brings a really packed schedule, usually with a lot of travel. Our drummer and good friend Toby Larsson is faced with a super busy schedule which limits his availability for [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan
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