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
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 pretty much will monopolize my friday and saturday! I’m so thankful I’ll have Sunday for recovery, kind off… Thursday May 26th: [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Amazing insurance salesmen, black cat bone, buyi, Chunqiu, dolan, free the birds, Jess Meider, rhinostock, rhinostock 2011, SUBS
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 winners of the night taking in 2 awards just like last year.. And your award winners are: Album of the Year: [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, Nanwu, xie tianxiao
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 music.. let’s get this baby started: Friday Dec 31: MIDI Awards @ Star Live: The granddaddy of rocknroll awards in China [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, 24 hours, chinese reggae, Cui Jian, free the birds, Nanwu, SUBS
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 in my way. SO.. what’s the deal yo? It’s an interesting list and it’s really tough to find any faults with [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, suffocate, xie tianxiao
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 her long awaited CD on Tuesday December 14th at 2 Kolegas. This comes right on the heels of Lao Da (zhao [...]
Tags: free the birds, Jacky Danny, mademoiselle, The Fever Machine
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