well my darlings, last week was i think the first time in over two years that the blog didn’t have quickslants… can you believe that? truth be said, pretty much all live music venues are closed and/or all musicians have taken the week off…. expect a few hard working souls over at Temple who have [...]
Tags: blackwater, bluewolf, Djan San, Modernista, Temple, Toy Head
Holly smokes is this looking like a busy weekend in Beijing… stop me if you’ve heard this before but there’s a whole lotta rocking to be done. I’m almost glad I won’t be here for this as the ‘daze crew if off checking out the rock scene with our buddies from DUDE. Still, for those [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Arrows Made of Desire, blackwater, Chunqiu, Flying Mantas, Gost Spardac, Hanggai, SUBS, The Face, The On Fires, Your FAvorite Enemy
I’ve been meaning to write this one up for a while but things been a bit busy on this side of the world. Still, It’s worth nothing that Black Cat Bone, following the untimely exit of their drummer and gentleman extraordinaire Jon Campbell, Have returned to the Beijing music scene. They’ve managed to pick up [...]
Tags: black cat bone, blackwater, Jaime Welton, Johanna Demker
Last Wednesday was bittersweet in many ways but fun and amazing in so many others. The evening kicked off at Yugong Yishan with Blackwater opening for Hanggai. As expected, every foreigner in Beijing that pretends they enjoy Chinese music was out there with the venue packed to the brim. Blackwater got the worst of it [...]
Tags: blackwater, hangai, tofu
Both Ruby and I have had a few weeks to listen to and digest Hanggai’s latest record… with the official release party taking place tonight at Yugong Yishan, it was time for a double take. Beijing Daze on He Who Travels Far I got mixed feelings about Hanggai as I’ve mentioned a few times but [...]
Tags: ajinai, blackwater, Hanggai
Sometimes, it’s just hard to keep track of what’s going on in Beijing’s music scene, especially over the past few weeks where all the bands are coming out of their collective hibernations and comas. Last friday at 2Kolegas marked the last show of You Mei You as they’re gearing up for a rebranding of sorts [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, blackwater, buyi, Maggie Who, The Redbucks, vital time, wu & side effects, xie tianxiao
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