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
Is it already late thursday/early friday? goodness this week has flown by! They say that’s what happens when you’re busy having fun so here is hoping i had tons of fun because it did freaking fly by. So, another weekend looming with some pretty sweet and diverse choices to pick from. Let’s kick it! Friday [...]
Tags: ajinai, Bookswap, capoeira Beijing, Chunqiu, Flying Mantas, Hanggai, la pegatina, ma tiao, randy abel stable, song yunzhe, The Power Powder, xiao he
Last time I wrote about ChunQiu (Spring Autumn), I finished it by saying that someone should lock up those guys in a room and prevent them from leaving before they came through with enough materials for a new CD…. It’s not quite what happened but if what I saw and heard last sunday at Gulou [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, Gulou 121, Spring Autumn
October holidays are straight ahead folks with tons and i mean TONS of music opportunities in Beijing including festivals and what not…. Basically you gotta really try hard to not find anything interesting. I’ll do an October Holiday Quickslants later to deal with the flurry of shows next week. For now, here’s what the end [...]
Tags: Bone, Chunqiu, gumbleed, Helen Feng, lao da, Mariane Dissard, Misandao, Nova Heart, Old What Bar, Residence A, Rolling Bowling, rustic, skarving, Song Yuzhe, SUBS, The Unsafe
Seriously, as the title says, where were you? Heck, did you even hear about it? That’s what I found myself wondering as i was standing in the middle of a pretty darn empty Tango on sunday night watching some pretty darn good musicians play for a good cause. Was it the rain? nope, Sunday night [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, Ember Swift, exit a, Kaiser Kuo, longjin, longshendao
Interesting weekend ahead as usual folks with a variety of sounds available to those seeking musical entertainment. Rockaid is going on pretty much all weekend. Shanren return to 2K and host of other goodies happening left and right. The Tiger beer battle of the band continues with sessions at Mako Livehouse and Mao Livehouse. Kamila [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, Ember Swift, Residence A, Rock Aid, Sambasia, shanren, xiao he
Well folks, if the whole fire safety hazard thingy hasn’t put a damper in your going out plans for this weekend, there’s plenty of stuff happening this weekend. 2 Kolegas is turning 6 which pretty much will monopolize my friday and saturday! I’m so thankful I’ll have Sunday for recovery, kind off… Thursday May 26th: [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Amazing insurance salesmen, black cat bone, buyi, Chunqiu, dolan, free the birds, Jess Meider, rhinostock, rhinostock 2011, SUBS
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