Well, who’d have thunk it… I’ve been completely missing out on the fact that there is a rock radio, much less that there’s a weekly chart on its 103rd week of existence over at Sina: http://ent.sina.com.cn/f/y/rockchart/ It’s just come to my attention and I’m extremely surprised to see some very familiar names on there like [...]
Tags: Ember Swift, rock charts, rustic
This is one of the few albums I know off/have heard where the financial side was pretty much crowdsourced! I though Ember Swift was being extremely innovative when she annouced the project months ago… and by golly, here we are staring at a release tonight at 2 Kolegas. so, what’s the deal? here are our [...]
Tags: Ember Swift
Hiya Hiya Moving over at ‘daze HQ so we might be able to resume normal blogging operations as of this week. A lot of pics, reviews and news coming your way but we’re gonna start with an early edition of the quickslants because of a potentially VERY good show on Wednesday at Yugong Yishan…. so [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Bookswap, Ember Swift, Jess Meider, Ken Stringfellow, Kick Ass, Lao Liu, Los Crashers, Pierre Brahin Trio, Reggae Party
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
Hope you got some rest last weekend folks cause this upcoming one will require some serious stamina from all of you considering all the fun stuff taking place in Beijing over the next few days! so, what we got? Wednesday June 22nd: Misandao @ Mao: Misandao is tons of fun! I love these guys because [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, black cat bone, Black Snakes, Brain Failure, Casino Demon, Dancers, dazeFEAST, Dude, Ember Swift, Heavenly Stems, Jess Meider, Lidong, Maggie Who, Misandao, Nucleus, Prom Night, randy abel stable
Festivals are behind us, for now and we’re getting ready to get back on a more regular steady diet of performances. How is it all looking this weekend? Pretty darn good! Thursday May 12: Noisey.com Launch @ YGYS: So the website aims to make people discover new music… I can swing with that! They’ve set [...]
Tags: candy monster, Ember Swift, Flying Mantas, Jacky Danny, me guan me, Steely Heart, The Clamps, The Morlocks
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The Food-related posts are stopping on 'daze! They have a new home over at The Noodle Diaries where you can find all the tales of my stomach's adventures through the universe of Chinese Food
