It’s probably been one of the worst kept secrets of the music industry in Beijing over the past 2 months but i guess it’s time to let the cat out of the bag: D-22 is set to shut down! The writing has been on the wall for a while with the place really being a [...]
Tags: D-22
I don’t spend much time off in wudaokou and i spend even less time at D-22 even though i was there twice in the last 30 days. That doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s a good place or I don’t appreciate their work. Au Contraire! I believe the place does a great job fostering and [...]
Tags: D-22, michael pettis, pangbianr
Boy I am worn out!! It’s been a long weekend with tons of music, fun, dust, wind and random happenings, which i’ll hopefully share on the blog shortly. But for now, we’ll make do with a quick recap before I get down to full blown reviews of the festivals. Midi on Saturday was a strange [...]
Tags: D-22, MIDI 2011, Strawbery 2011, voodoo kungfu
So I was stuck in Shanghai for the week (well OK, 3 days, but it felt like a week!) and thought I’d try to catch some music while I was there. It seems there’s only two live music venues in existence now, thanks to Expo restrictions, and apparently no mid-week gigs?! Mao Livehouse is still [...]
Tags: D-22, One Lick Less, shanghai
I spend a lot of time out at shows trying to stay in touch with the music scene and writing about it as much as I can but really from a fan perspective. I do manage to get around the Gulou area, yugong yishan, 2 Kolegas etc… and have a good sense of the scene’s [...]
Tags: D-22, Pete DeMola
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