Really? it’s that time of the year again? Hell yeah!!! Looks like all the pieces are falling in place for a culturally exciting couple of months in Beijing. First, we have the Capital M and the Bookworm literary festivals (good writeup on The Beijinger here)that will keep us busy over the next few weeks. I’m [...]
Tags: 2011 MIDI, ephemeral, jue festival, MIDI, Strawberry Festival
The MIDI awards nominations came out yesterday on Douban and The Beijinger was kind enough to translate the list. I would have given my two cents earlier but a freaking chest infection is getting in my way. SO.. what’s the deal yo? It’s an interesting list and it’s really tough to find any faults with [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, suffocate, xie tianxiao
Thanks to my fabulous peep at Quirky Beijing for pointing this article out on sunday: The New York Times revisits the festival issue and actually does a decent job addressing it with a good write up and a nice video that deserves lots of street cred since Matthew Niederhauser , who knows a thing or [...]
Tags: MIDI, New York Times, PK 14, Starwberry
I don’t get over excited by rumors nor do i endorse them usually but this one is way too big to ignore if it proves right!!! The folks over at China Music Radar who usually have great insight into the happenings within the mainland’s musical sphere were the first one to get wind of this [...]
I think we can safely say that the May 1-4 period is one of the most exciting, musically rich ones in Beijing: 3 festivals, tons of stages and bands as well as lots of good music. Yesterday was the last day of it with MIDI day 4 and it was a truly magical end. I [...]
Tags: MIDI, Miserable Faith, music festival
I think I made no secrets of my feelings for Strawberry Festival this year and I must admit that on Sunday morning, i was extremely hesitant to head up to Haidian for day 2 of MIDI… I strongly considered not going but the draw was too good and i had faith in MIDI’s experience. I [...]
Tags: Dude, mao live, MIDI, music festival, voodoo kungfu
I’m generally a nice guy…most of the time and i takes a lot to get me all wound up and angry! It’s takes even more to keep me fuming for 3 days in a row after the fact! Well, my little trip to Day 1 of Strawberry music festival in Tongzhou managed to just do [...]
Tags: fuck up, MIDI, rant, Strawberry Festival
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