seriously, I’ve lived in 4 continents, countless cities and seen my share of shows but nothing compares to the musical onslaught that is about to be unleashed on Beijing over the next 5 days. It’s actually mind blowing and busy enough to make a music fan go insane trying to decide where/what to do. This [...]
Tags: arcane saints, Backyard Surgeons, Brain Failure, buyi, Dimefest, Flyx, iz, La Souris Deglinguee, lao da, Lidong, Mamer, NovaHeart, Nucleus, Residence A, SUBS, The On Fires, whai
This end of March/beginning of April period is kicking ass, taking names… And there’s no escaping it baby! These quickslants basically carry over into next week thanks to the ballsy folks from Sex in the Xity who have pretty much taken over Beijing from April 1-3 with shows all over the freaking city spawning all [...]
Tags: 330 metal, Bad Mamasan, Beijing Beatles, buyi, christmas, devils at the crossroads, DH & the hellcats, Die From Sorrow, dolan, Dude, evilthorn, flying, low wormwood, Lure, mademoiselle, Nucleus, Red Pirates, sound of the Xity, Suffocated, The Face, Wacken, whai, wu & side effects, Wu Kejia
This week has really flown by folks. It’s already Thursday and I’m bracing myself for a busy fun few days ahead! If you haven’t done so yet, go ahead at read jtdj’s review of the Pains show last Saturday. It has sparked a lovely discussion with over 20 comments and still going.. Great exchange on [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, Amazing insurance salesmen, buyi, carsick cars, flaming heat, Goodbye thank you for the Fish, Nova Heart, Nucleus, pangbianr, rustic, Sally Can't Dance 2012, Torturing Nurse, whai, wu & side effects
damn damn damn… another year goes down, another calendar thrown out, a few more gray hairs and it’s the end of 2011 folks! Let’s see it go down in flames. Last year, the lineups for NYE shows were mighty impressive and it was pretty darn hard to pick one. This time around, it’s a bit [...]
Tags: AV okubo, carsick cars, DH & the hellcats, Flying Mantas, gar, Hoochie Coochie Gentlemen, Lazy Camels, Nucleus, PK 14, Residence A, Rolling Bowling, whai, wu & side effects, wu hongfei
There was a whole lotta music this past week as i mentioned before with some pretty darn mesmerizing stuff starting with Super Ningxia Night at 2 Kolegas. For this October holiday edition, the gang pulled out all the stops and brought over a banging lineup with 7 bands: Nucleus, Zhao “lao da” yiran, Summer Group, [...]
Tags: buyi, lao da, Lidong, Nucleus, skarving, summer group, whai, xiayuetuan, zhao yiran
It’s been a beautiful beginning for october in Beijing with blue skies, mild temperatures and freaking empty roads… oh yeah! For those of us fortunate enough to be in Beijing and enjoying the quiet, it’s pretty cool. That said though, nightlife and music events are plentiful for the next few days… heck, there are so [...]
Tags: black cat bone, buyi, carsick cars, hsu-nami, iz, Lidong, lone, mademoiselle, Mamer, Misandao, Nucleus, Old What Bar, Pairs, randy abel stable, skarving, Song Yuzhe, The Unsafe, whai, Xia Band, Zhou yun Peng
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
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