Tales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..
Got some mooncakes yet? hurry hurry hurry, the ice cream ones at haggendaz outlets might be running out soon. as far as the egg-filled ones, i gracefully decline any offerings but it might be...
local label 1724 records is known for supporting post rock bands from all over the country, but their newest recruits, japan’s saisa, are from outside the middle kingdom and you can catch them on...
There’s a mouth watering variety of great gigs coming your way this weekend folks. You want metal, you got it. you want reggae, you got it, you want pop, you got it etc… i’m...
While most of the city’s music fans were dancing along to Hanggai’s drinking song at the drive-in, I was one of a few people at probably the weekend’s most underrated show – One Lick...
For all the Post-Rock fans out there (BD, you’re excluded from this one!) local label 1724 records has put together a great little compilation album featuring 6 of the city’s Post-Rock bands: Illness Sickness,...
It was bound to be one of the bigger shows since we got back from spring festival and that was on a Tuesday! Never mind that the Tuesday was valentine’s day and that across...
Quickslants are a few days away but I feel like I should at leat mention tonight’s show at Yugong Yishan with Subs, Da Bang, Glow Curve and A boys. 4 distinctively different bands are...
Friday saw the start of ‘Swedish weekend’ here in Beijing (and you didn’t even need to go to IKEA, although some of my friends actually did!) with Post Rockers Immanu El on Friday at...
well well well… Meaty Quickslants ahead sailors! It’s been quite sometimes since we’ve seen a busy little week worth of music in this town! Almost too long! This week, pretty much all the usual...
This show has been marked in my gig calendar for a long time and I’ve been patiently waiting for it to come. I already have albums of 3 of the 5 bands playing, but...
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever