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
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 songs are quite pleasant when done acoustically. I could be wrong but i think that’s what Yang Meng, who founded the [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, Kaiser Kuo, yang meng
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) ‘dazeFEAST to be held at 2 Kolegas Saturday June 25th 2011 What: ‘daze FEAST – A Celebration of Music & Fun [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, black cat bone, Chunqiu, dazeFEAST, Flying Mantas, mademoiselle, Maggie Who, Zhang Si An
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 and Nucleus, 3 bands I’ve seen a few times over the past few weeks. We like it hard, we like it [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, Nucleus
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 names: Wednesday March 23 The Heavenly Stems @ Yugong Yishan: Jess Meider is having a coming out party for her new [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, buyi, charity, Chunqiu, erez eisenman, Jess Meider
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 Bookworm at 2 Kolegas for the poetry slam with Omar Musa and a few others… let me tell you folks, I’ve [...]
Tags: 2011 MIDI, Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, Hedgehog, voodoo kungfu
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 launch. ok… google to the rescue….. The band’s been around for quite some time now and shares the same bass player, [...]
Tags: Chunqiu, descendants, gangzi
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