Tales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..
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...
ChunQiu was never your traditional Metal band, they’ve always done things differently in trying to bring elements of Chinese Folk into Rock music, most specifically the metal variety. That’s one of the reasons their...
Yes folks, after threatening to do this for a while, we’ve take the plunge thanks to great friends all over Beijing that will make it possible! I’m announcing the first ( and probably only)...
I might get into a lyrical quoting habit but pieces of Manowar’s Kings of Metal come to mind when thinking about last saturday Rock n Roll extravaganza at Yugong Yishan with Bad Mamasan, ChunQiu...
We’re hitting the quickslant early this week because there’s a lot of awesomeness in Beijing from an artistic point of view and a charitable one. Without further due, here’s what’s kicking ass and taking...
Quite a bit of stuff been happening around Beijing lately, so here are some of the things that caught my attention. Jue Rocks: I made it to the collaboration between Jue Festival and the...
I’ve never heard of Descendants ( Mo Yi 末裔) before last week when I was asking Kaiser Kuo about his next performance and he mentioned that they would be playing on Mo Yi’s record...
A bit of a delayed quickslants this week along with sporadic posting but yours truly was supposed to head out of town and things got complicated. Expect a couple of posts on last weeekend’s...
I never thought I’d write these words but here we go with another music festival in/around Beijing and I’m sincerely hoping that the promoters are not counting on the city’s residents to travel to...
So Beijing has been gripped by football fever, with big screens popping up everywhere and fanatical supporters pulling all-nighters before enduring looong work days (or just flying over to Africa in the case of...
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