Friday night at 2 kolegas was a weird one: I can honestly say I’ve never seen such a motley crowd there! It was mostly made up of international school kids coming to support their friends in Maggie Who, Mr. Ruckus and Operation Bojinka amongst others. Operation Bojinka pulled out of the gig for reasons unknown [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Maggie Who, Supergroup, The Dancers
A whole lotta things been happening here yonder and not always needing their own post so here’s a summary: SUBS are rocking a new album and have already started a China tour last saturday (5/29) in Shijiazhuang. I caught a few songs on Friday at Yugong Yishan as part of the Zippo Hot List. The [...]
Tags: Fever Machine, free the birds, Maggie Who, SUBS, Zippo Hot List
After weeks of musical overabundance, we were due to go through a small slowdown and sure enough, it’s taking place this weekend. Sure, there are gigs everywhere but not much that I’d actually go really out of my way to catch except maybe the Rustic gig on Friday: Wednesday May 19th: Czechomor @ Yugong Yishan: [...]
Tags: Maggie Who, Mao Livehouse, Nanwu, rustic
Sometimes, it’s just hard to keep track of what’s going on in Beijing’s music scene, especially over the past few weeks where all the bands are coming out of their collective hibernations and comas. Last friday at 2Kolegas marked the last show of You Mei You as they’re gearing up for a rebranding of sorts [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, blackwater, buyi, Maggie Who, The Redbucks, vital time, wu & side effects, xie tianxiao
I’m on the road all week so updates coming courtesy of the WordPress App on my iPhone… Excuse the poor formatting In between rehearsals, studio sessions and school, Phil Schloss of Maggie Who found some time to answer a few questions for BeijingDaze… Cool beans! 1- What’s going on in your world? This is your [...]
Tags: Maggie Who
Man oh man! I picked the wrong week to get the hell outta dodge because Beijing is getting ready to make up and kiss after the general musical coma we experienced with Chinese New Year. Wedneday Feb 24th: Maggie Who @ Mao: Well, these kids were cool enough to open for “Dirty Deeds” when they [...]
Tags: chasing star, free the birds, mademoiselle, Maggie Who
I posted this yesterday but the server trolls decided they were hungry and just swallowed it whole, so here comes it again! Chinese New Year celebrations did put a damper on live shows in the capital so one’s gotta find a different way of getting their music fix. In my case, I use Douban to [...]
Tags: Hedgehog, Maggie Who, randomk(e), The Subs
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