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 [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, grinding ear, hualun, illness sickness, Mao Livehouse, pentatonic, post rock, sparrow
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 [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, immanu el, Mao Livehouse, post rock, sweden
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. [...]
Tags: Hardcore, Mao Livehouse, rui wang fen, ss20, Unregenerate Blood
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 [...]
Tags: Bone, Mao Livehouse, Residence A, s.a.m.e., tenzenmen, yantiao
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 [...]
Tags: ajinai, beijing alchemists, folk, Mao Livehouse
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 [...]
Tags: live music, Mao Livehouse, zhaoze
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‘ [...]
Tags: folk, kang mao, Lidong, live music, Mao Livehouse
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