I’m not sure where to start reviewing this baby because it’s so close to my heart and it’s very very very freaking biased but here comes folks! It’s gonna be a long one so buckle up and get a cup of coffee! I’ll start off by thanking 2 Kolegas for being the perfect venue and [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, back cat bone, Black Snakes, dazeFEAST, Dude, Lidong, mademoiselle, Maggie Who, Michael Dallin, Nucleus, randy abel stable, richard todd, ruby, wu & side effects, Zhang Si An
Hope you got some rest last weekend folks cause this upcoming one will require some serious stamina from all of you considering all the fun stuff taking place in Beijing over the next few days! so, what we got? Wednesday June 22nd: Misandao @ Mao: Misandao is tons of fun! I love these guys because [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, black cat bone, Black Snakes, Brain Failure, Casino Demon, Dancers, dazeFEAST, Dude, Ember Swift, Heavenly Stems, Jess Meider, Lidong, Maggie Who, Misandao, Nucleus, Prom Night, randy abel stable
last week at 2 Kolegas saw an interesting show take place where throughout the evening, things just kept going right and the stars all lined up for the bands. It was a pretty solid bill with The Ghost Spardac making a rare trip outside of Gulou, Amazing Insurance Salesmen coming out of post-GBoB hibernation as [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Ghost Spardac, Nucleus, wu & side effects
I might get into a lyrical quoting habit but pieces of Manowar’s Kings of Metal come to mind when thinking about last saturday Rock n Roll extravaganza at Yugong Yishan with Bad Mamasan, ChunQiu and Nucleus, 3 bands I’ve seen a few times over the past few weeks. We like it hard, we like it [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, Nucleus
I might write about them less but that doesn’t mean the ‘daze crew has stopped going to shows.. far from it! It’s just been busy enough not to have time to address them all. Here is just a quick summary from the last week or so! Dude, Me Guan Me, Ghost Spardac and Christmas played [...]
Tags: Bad Apples, dongzi, Dude, Ghost Spardac, Lidong, made in ningxia, me guan me, Nucleus, Red Pirates, wu & side effects
This show was penciled down a while back for many reasons: last AIS gig in Beijing before the GBoB finals, great lineup coming off spring festival, Nucleus playing Yugong Yishan for the firs time, Ruby threatening to put sugar in my weasel coffee etc.. Things got started around 10:00 pm with Nucleus sporting their traditional [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Nucleus, rustic
Ah man.. where to start? So we had the 2 Kolegas 5th year anniversary bash this past weekend with the festivities starting on friday night and going on through the wee hours of sunday morning! The party was loud, messy, grimy, rowdy, chaotic and entertaining all in one! Just pure unadulterated fun… here is what [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, black cat bone, buyi, DH & the hellcats, Nucleus, wu & side effects
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever
