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
I’ve managed to miss just about every single Ember Swift performance in Beijing since the first time I saw her along with Jess Meider at the bookworm almost a year ago…. it’s not that i didn’t try, but there was always some reason or another for me to be either on the other side of [...]
Tags: andy deemer, Ember Swift, laowai anthem
Trying to get the quickslants in early this week so that people can plan accordingly. There’s a whole lotta stuff going on and unlike previous weeks where one genre was taking over, this one is pretty eclectic! Thursday April 14: Eisenman & Heavenly Stems @ Yugong: In what might be his last appearance in Beijing [...]
Tags: black cat bone, Ember Swift, Ephemeral Festival, erez eisenman, Jess Meider, Mamer, wu fei, xiao he
just because the venues feel like taking some time off, it doesn’t mean musicians are! Here are some new to sink your teeth into. Xie Tian Xiao, who just won the MIDI award for best live performer as well as a rock performance award at the Chinese Pop Music awards, was has had a few [...]
Tags: Dude, Ember Swift, muma, Omnipotent youth society, xie tian xiao
While BD is away sipping cocktails on the beaches of Vietnam, the rest of us here are braving the icy Beijing winds looking for places to escape the cold. Things will soon be winding down for the annual Chunjie break with 2Kolegas being the first venue to stop advertising shows (although I hear through the [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, D22, Ember Swift, jianghu, The Dancers, wu & side effects, yugong yishan
BD has been talking up one Ms Swift for the last couple of weeks since seeing her at The Bookworm recently (writeup here) . So with him taking a night off on Saturday, I thought I would head into the hutongs with the girls to see the new addition to the list of ‘Daze Crushes. [...]
Tags: Ember Swift, jiangjinjiu ba
It’s one hell of a strange weekend music wise in Beijing with mostly humho shows and a few gems in the form of old faithfuls on the scene: Friday 13th: Mademoiselle @Vanguard VA Cafe & Bar: I don’t think Marie-Claude and her crew need an introduction anymore on the ‘daze. Her playful voice, gypsy jazz, [...]
Tags: Ember Swift, mademoiselle, Pairs
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