Tales of Live Music From Beijing's Mostly Underground Rock Scene..
world cup is over folks.. world cup is over… scream it out loud! Now we can get back to our regularly schedule programming of getting smashed at live houses, hackling bands and being merry…...
18 mths ago I stumbled upon a Sunday show at Mao that started my love (or maybe obsession?) with Chinese post rock music. It was the album launch for Guangzhou based band Zhaoze’s album...
a lot of happenings in town the last few week have kept me beyond busy with half a dozen unfinished reviews.. They’ll come out sooner or later! In the meantime, a few things have...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever