Posts Tagged ‘Mao Livehouse’

March 15, 2012 2

Free Music for the Masses: Beijing Post-Rock Compilation!

By in blabbers, Freeloading

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, pentatonic, The Grinding Ear, Glow Curve, Sparrow and Hualun. You can grab the download for free, yes, FREE! on their bandcamp [...]

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February 13, 2012 2

Atmospheric soundscapes from Sweden’s Immanu El

By in Gig Reviews, Tunes under the moon

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 Mao & Death Metal from Opeth Saturday at Tango (more coming on that later). It’s no secret I’m a post rock [...]

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November 29, 2011 1

SS20 brings it on hardcore, Unregenerate Blood Confirms

By in Gig Reviews, Tunes under the moon

I’ve had this one pencilled in for a while now, ever since i got my hands on the double LP with Fanzui Xiangfa and SS20. Hardcore is not my preferred go-to kinda music but when it’s well done, it is definitely worth a listen. That holds especially true for old school hardcore a-la Black Flag. [...]

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September 30, 2011 3

More Aussie tunes in the ‘Jing: Bone rock a sleepy Mao with Residence A & Yantiao

By in Tunes under the moon

Awhile ago I wrote about how Sino Australian Music Exchange is doing awesome things sending Chinese bands to Australia and Australasian bands to China. I saw my hometown boys Die! Die! Die! at D22 back then and this week I caught my second S.A.M.E. show with Perth-via-Melbs rockers Bone playing Mao Livehouse. I got there [...]

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August 13, 2011 Off

Mao echoes with the sounds of the grasslands

By in Outsourced Blabbers, Tunes under the moon

Sunday has become the new Friday for me this summer with the festivals and battle of the bands competitions taking up both weekend days. But I’ve also managed to pop into Mao on the occasional Sunday this year and stumbled across some low-key shows by great bands including Zhaoze, So Long & Thanks for the [...]

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April 18, 2011 7

Mezmerizing sounds from the southern Swamp: Guangzhou’s Zhaoze captivate at Mao

By in Tunes under the moon

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 understanding to expect from it. I had to agree with him. I’ve seen WuFei perform 3 times now, by herself, with [...]

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March 7, 2011 Off

Beautiful folk to end the weekend @ Mao

By in blabbers

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 into Beautiful Folk night at Mao on Sunday night for the debut of ‘So long and thanks for all the Fish‘ [...]

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