Skarving Rocks, The Birds are Free and The Hellcats SleepSwing
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...
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Live Music Quickslants: Mademoiselle’s Last Stand, Friend or Foe Visit and SS20 Hits Mao
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...
Beijing quickslants: Jess Awakening, 2 Kolegas Celebrates and Bluegrass Retruns
Well folks, if the whole fire safety hazard thingy hasn’t put a damper in your going out plans for this weekend, there’s plenty of stuff happening this weekend. 2 Kolegas is turning 6 which...
2010 MIDI Awards Results: The Best of Chinese Rock or Something Like it
I’ve been browsing around trying to find a list of the winners from last night’s MIDI awards and it has finally popped up on Xie Tian Xiao’s Douban. He was one of the big...
Year End Music Quickslants: Free Birds, SUBS, MIDI & The King will Rock You into 2011
Beijing’s music community is closing the year in style and starting things off with a bang. Some great shows are lined up for tonight, saturday and sunday, some of which can be considered must-see...
MIDI Awards 2010 Announced… Ramblings, Predictability and Surprises
The MIDI awards nominations came out yesterday on Douban and The Beijinger was kind enough to translate the list. I would have given my two cents earlier but a freaking chest infection is getting...
News To Ooze: Mademoiselle, Lao Da and Ma Tiao records, new Free the Birds, Jacky Danny on Douban
You’d think things would slow down in December but we’re just getting ready for a whole bunch of CD releases along with news about shows worth marking your calendar over: Mademoiselle will be releasing...
Halloween Shindig at 2 Kolegas: Rusty Birds & Rustic, Amazing DH, interesting 24h and welcome The K
Alex over at Beijing Gig Guide labelled it his gig of the week and I agree on principle. A lineup of this quality is worth checking out for surprises are bound to happen… and...
Halloween Music Quickslants: of Freaks, Fetishes, Big Sharks, Girls and Free Birds
it’s gonna be a costumes, costumes and more costumes this weekend for a special freaky edition of the quickslants… Beijing goes hogwild for halloween when all the freaks come out the play and sure...
Yugong Yishan turns 6: re-TROS fun, Free The Birds wardrobe malfunction and Longshendao grows.
And then it turned six! some people might argue about how old the place is and what not considering it’s only been in its current location for 3 years but that’s a debate for...
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