Temple of Nomad bring their traveler’s tunes to Beijing
Beijing is blessed with a great variety of musical offerings, you can get your fix of metal, folk, experimental, punk, reggae; anything you fancy. But it’s been awhile since I saw a show I...
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Festival’d out? No way! Long Live Rock in the Grasslands!
There’s been a lot of talk about the over abundance of festivals in China this year. Jon Campbell and China Daily, both have interesting posts on this. I agree 4 festivals competing in one...
Jurat: Echoes of classic rock melded with the sounds of North-West China
In a city of over 22 million people, I’m constantly surprised how small this city is. Or maybe that’s just the expat community, or maybe it’s even just the circles I move in? Anyway,...
Taking the Beijing Blues to America – Alan Paul talks about his book ‘Big in China’
Not many laowai can claim to have become ‘Big in China’, the only person I can think of would be DaShan maybe? Well, Alan Paul can also claim that title, or at least he...
Welcome to the City of Heartbreak & Horror – Take 2!
BD and I both took the chance to get out of the city last weekend, but early morning flights didn’t stop us heading out to Friday night shows! While he was checking out AIS,...
S.A.M.E – bridging the gap between China and Australia
Beijing has seen an influx of French and Canadian indie acts touring over the last year or so, now it’s the time for bands from downunder to get a chance to bring their music...
Too many shows, too little time – just another weekend in the ‘Jing!
I was a little surprised when BD described last weekend as “underwhelming” in the Quickslants! From what I could see it was shaping up to be a great weekend with many shows I wanted...
Kama Shows Us The Love
Last weekend’s Kama Love Festival almost slipped by under the radar, popping up on this and other blogs only in the last few days before it happened. My Canadian buddies were possibly the only...
Mezmerizing sounds from the southern Swamp: Guangzhou’s Zhaoze captivate at Mao
On Friday night BD and I were enjoying WuFei’s performance at the Ephemerals show when he made the comment that he’s still getting his head around the guqin, still learning how it sounds and...
Beautiful folk to end the weekend @ Mao
We love SUBS here at Daze Central, so when we heard Kang Mao has a new project in the works we were excited to hear what she was up to. I managed to pop...
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