Yaogun 搖滾 is the Chinese term for Rock n Roll. It’s made up of 搖 Yao ( To Shake) and 滾 Gun (to Roll) so the term does make perfect sense! For the longest time, that’s the only way I understood the term and thought of it…. A little over a year ago, I was [...]
Tags: China Rock, jon campbell, Red Rock
It’s been a weird year in music for Beijing with a lot of knowledgeable folks leaving, disappearing etc… Peter Baird is gone, Pete de Mola is MIA, Tofu not a 2 Kolegas and finally, Jon Campbell, one of the more instrumental behind the scene figures trying to bridge the rock n roll gap between east [...]
Tags: black cat bone, jon campbell, randomk(e)
Someone forgot to close the tap up there last friday night because it rained and rained and rained… then it rained some more! In Beijing, that is basically recipe for the city slowing down to a crawl with crappy traffic and no one going anywhere… and that’s what happened last week when Abigail Washburn came [...]
Tags: abigail washburn, Hanggai, jon campbell, the one
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
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
