damn damn damn… another year goes down, another calendar thrown out, a few more gray hairs and it’s the end of 2011 folks! Let’s see it go down in flames. Last year, the lineups for NYE shows were mighty impressive and it was pretty darn hard to pick one. This time around, it’s a bit [...]
Tags: AV okubo, carsick cars, DH & the hellcats, Flying Mantas, gar, Hoochie Coochie Gentlemen, Lazy Camels, Nucleus, PK 14, Residence A, Rolling Bowling, whai, wu & side effects, wu hongfei
Hellooo Beijing.. miss me? I didn’t think so either. Ruby did an amazing job keeping the show on the road while I was out on an ear-cleaning mission. Many posts/comments coming up once I catch up but let’s first get started with some quick slants as tonight (wednesday) has some pretty darn solid offerings. Wednesday [...]
Tags: candy monster, DH & the hellcats, low bow, muma, Omnipotent youth society, second hand rose, skarving, Steely Heart, SUBS, voodoo kungfu
Saturday November 19th at 2 Kolegas was the second of two 4 am nights which hasn’t happened in a long time. It was busy musically and for good reasons! Ruby headed over to D-22 for Shanghai’s Friend or Foe but yours truly was more intrigued by the prospects of seeing Free The Birds come out [...]
Tags: DH & the hellcats, free the birds, skarving
man this week just flew by. I’ve been mostly hibernating catching up with recordings from here and there but it’s time to look forward to the what the week end will bring musically: Thursday November 17th: Starfruit @ Jianghu: This one just sounds intriguing… progressive folk accompanied with Italian poetry reading. 40rmb entrance fee also [...]
Tags: Bloom In the Dark, Dengel, DH & the hellcats, free the birds, friend or foe, goth music, Lidong, mademoiselle, Nightingale, Residual Poem, ss20, starfish, Toreador, ZIYO
Hell ‘Bone is what i dubbed this unholly union that saw two of my favorite beijing fun bands come together for a fantastic night of rock n roll at Yugong Yishan: DH & The Hellcats along with Black Cat Bone I’ve reviewed both bands here so many times that it would seem extremely redundant to [...]
Tags: black cat bone, DH & the hellcats, Hell'Bone
This is the kind of weekend that hurts my head in terms of picking where to go… so many good shows, so little time and I wanna see them all.. yes my precious, I want them all! Mongolian Music Festival at Mako, Pilot Records Intercity Festival in Chaoyang Park, Black Cat Bone w/ DH & [...]
Tags: black cat bone, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, CMCB, Cui Jian, DH & the hellcats, Hanggai, Intercity Music Festival 2011, Miserable Faith, Mongolian Music Festival, Pretty REckless, second hand rose, Suffocated
last year‘s women day extravaganza at yugong yishan gave us Free the Birds, Bigger Bang and DH w/ her Hellcats. This year, 2 out of 3 were back with Kang Mao’s new project, “Thank you for the fish” replacing FTB… trading one queen for another is fair enough. The Fish kickstarted the evening with their [...]
Tags: Bigger Bang, DH & the hellcats, SUBS, thank you for the fish
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