This little blurb was posted on Mao Livehouse’s website yesterday: MAO LIVEHOUSE MOVES TO 2010 MIDI FESTIVAL！ MAO LIVEHOUSE入驻2010年迷笛音乐节，届时将分为现场演出及娱乐休闲两个区域。现场演出区主要以乐队演出为主，稍后乐队阵容将会公布！娱乐休闲区将提供好喝的特调鸡尾酒及咖啡。 虽然天有不测风云，但我们也不想闲着，所以大家迷笛见吧！ It looks like the good folks at Mao are not ready to give in yet and fully intend on rocking away sooner than later! Their Douban page lists gigs as early as May 9th which [...]
Tags: Mao Livehouse, MIDI
Late on Friday, the news hit the webosphere that Mao Livehouse was shut down effective immediately and the PURESSENCE gig scheduled for Saturday night was moved to Frank’s Place. It was obvious enough that something was wrong otherwise you wouldn’t move an established band that travelled halfway around the world and have them play in [...]
Tags: live music, Mao Livehouse, yugong yishan
If you think I’m completely smitten with The White Eyes, then you are right! I’ve been listening to the band’s records for the past few days and looking at the videos i took. I wanted to share said videos with y’all but the video sharing services didn’t quite agree Xiao Gao‘s outfit is just too [...]
Tags: Mao Livehouse, The White Eyes
I heard rumors of this crazy Taiwanese band a few weeks ago from the good folks at Kungfuology and decided to keep an eye out for their Beijing show which i mistakenly wrote down as being on April 17. As I shuffled through Mao Live’s website, I saw their listing for last night and I [...]
Tags: Mao Livehouse, Steely Heart, The White Eyes
A friend of mine spoke to me earlier in the week of the Mao Award show and was surprised at the look of surprise on my face.. I had no idea it was happening! Heck, even now that the show has taken place, it seems like there is little to be found online about it. [...]
Tags: Hanggai, Mao Livehouse, Misandao, Nanwu
punk rock is roughly defined as: rock music with deliberately offensive lyrics expressing anger and social alienation; in part a reaction against progressive rock (wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn) A loud fast moving form of rock music with crude and aggressive effects. ( simplythebest.net/music/glossary/music_glossary_p.html ) The first result in Google image search for punk music is: I think of [...]
Tags: Demerit, Mao Livehouse, Shochu Legion, The Unsafe
Legal Disclaimer: This hectic schedule is for professionals only, please do not try this without proper supervision! I was facing one hell of a dilemma this past friday as to which show i would check out: the evening’s offerings were all intriguing and had the potential to be fantabulous shows. After struggling with the decision [...]
Tags: 2kolegas, Chunqiu, jianghu jiu ba, Kaiser Kuo, Mao Livehouse, voodoo kungfu, ZIYO
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