Man it sounds so pretentious to say this… but it’s a title that gets headlines and scores high in search engines so deal with it. There are many reasons why this is not a traditional “best of”, main one being I can’t claim that i heard every album released in 2011 all around the country. [...]
Tags: best of 2011, Hedgehog, iz, longshendao, Nanwu, ordnance, Proximity Butterfly, Rainbow Danger Club, voodoo kungfu
So often, Charity is an abstract concept! You’re organizing an event for a cause of to benefits namesless victims of some disaster. Not tonight! Li ChengDa aka Little Dada, only in the Sixth grade, has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic Leukemia! The poor kid in in urgent need of a bone marrow transplant and Beijing’s [...]
Tags: Nanwu, rui wang fen, tang ren jie, The Face
The quickslants are coming in a bit late this week folks but trust me, it’s been freaking busy as hell on this side of ‘daze HQ. Plenty of goodies happening around town with some of them in places we’re not used to writing about much anymore! Friday August 19 Growl 4 @ Mao: CMCB, Suffocated, [...]
Tags: CMCB, Nanwu, Nucleus, skarving, Suffocated, The Rudeness, wu & side effects
There’s been a lot of talk about the over abundance of festivals in China this year. Jon Campbell and China Daily, both have interesting posts on this. I agree 4 festivals competing in one weekend in Beijing is just stupid, but this my year of seeing more of China, and taking advantage of festivals and [...]
Tags: cuijian, live music, music festival, Nanwu, Steely Heart, tricky, XTX
Well folks, last weekend was fun but this week ain’t looking too shabby if you ask me! Quite a decent variety of pretty darn good music will be available all around town for your listening pleasure from punk to bluegrass, going through psychedelic rock…. it’s all there! so let’s get started with it! Thursday June [...]
Tags: army of jade kirin, bedstar, Brain Failure, four five, gangzi, Nanwu, Proximity Butterfly, rustic, Steely Heart, Twisted Machine, Unregenerate Blood, wu & side effects, you zunpeng
I was a bit of a crazy night yesterday at Mao Live with the Summersonic Finals… some really good bands and performances throughout the night and huge surprises. I’ll have a semi-full recap later on next week. The most important thing is that Nanwu, with 206 votes, took the crown and thus won the rights [...]
Tags: army of jade kirin, Joker, Nanwu, summersonic, voodoo kungfu
apologies, yours truly has been a little busy lately with grad school applications and the such and this one almost flew by! Mao Live has started holding the summersonic elimination rounds earlier this week to determine which bands will be sent over to Japan and bear the Zhongguo YaoGun (Chinese Rock) flag high and proud! [...]
Tags: Joker, muma, Nanwu, summersonic, Twisted Machine, voodoo kungfu
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