Something is brewing in Shanghai and I don’t mean the same stuff they’re doing at Great Leap… The music community there seems to be toughening up and finding creative ways to get people involved and get the audiences out to the shows! And that is commendable…. I’ve gone on the record calling Beijing-based bands “lazy” [...]
Tags: Fever Machine, Free Shanghai Music, friend or foe, Pairs, Rainbow Danger Club, Shanghai Music
I haven’t spent much time looking at PAIRS for many reasons… noise rock ain’t my thing and they’re in Shanghai so I don’t have many opportunities to give them the benefit of the doubt. That said, Rock in China has just published one hell of a good insightful interview with the band touching on many [...]
Tags: Pairs, Rock in China
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
It’s one hell of a strange weekend music wise in Beijing with mostly humho shows and a few gems in the form of old faithfuls on the scene: Friday 13th: Mademoiselle @Vanguard VA Cafe & Bar: I don’t think Marie-Claude and her crew need an introduction anymore on the ‘daze. Her playful voice, gypsy jazz, [...]
Tags: Ember Swift, mademoiselle, Pairs
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