one hell of a hectic week means i almost forgot my quickslants… so this week, it’s shortslants just to keep up. I can’t recall seeing this much Rock / Metal on offer ever in Beijing. Friday April 1: Motley Crue tribute @ 2 Kolegas with Rikki Sixx, Jacky Danny and more. One hell of a [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, dongzi, Metal, motley crue tribute, Nanwu
So, earlier this year ( or late last year) we had the MIDI awards that follow the standard award formula to a T… Interesting winners but mostly established bands with a few surprises. Not so hot on their heels come the Mao Live Awards fort 2010. Interesting thing about the Mao Live awards is that [...]
Tags: hell city, Mao Live Awards, me guan me, Nanwu, Omnipotent youth society, perdel, SUBS, The Ghost Spardac
I’ve been browsing around trying to find a list of the winners from last night’s MIDI awards and it has finally popped up on Xie Tian Xiao’s Douban. He was one of the big winners of the night taking in 2 awards just like last year.. And your award winners are: Album of the Year: [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, Nanwu, xie tianxiao
Beijing’s music community is closing the year in style and starting things off with a bang. Some great shows are lined up for tonight, saturday and sunday, some of which can be considered must-see music.. let’s get this baby started: Friday Dec 31: MIDI Awards @ Star Live: The granddaddy of rocknroll awards in China [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, 24 hours, chinese reggae, Cui Jian, free the birds, Nanwu, SUBS
There were a few shows taking place this past friday in Beijing and some were quite high profile.. that said, I couldn’t not go to Mao Live for their pre-halloween bash once i heard that there was a good chance it might be Girls Are Waiting to Meet You’s last performance for a long time/ever. [...]
Tags: GAWTMY, Mao Livehouse, nakoma, Nanwu, Not There
it’s gonna be a costumes, costumes and more costumes this weekend for a special freaky edition of the quickslants… Beijing goes hogwild for halloween when all the freaks come out the play and sure enough, there are plenty of live shows to match any weirdness you might have in you. Thursday October 28th: Purple Smog [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, free the birds, GAWTMY, halloween, nakoma, Nanwu
At some point last week, I got a tip about this show at Mako Live House by some band called Erguang who’d been together for a few years and is finally releasing an album. I had never heard of them before but the facts that Nanwu and Zhang Si’an were on opening duties peaked my [...]
Tags: erguang, Mako Livehouse, Nanwu, Zhang Si An
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