Well, who’d have thunk it… I’ve been completely missing out on the fact that there is a rock radio, much less that there’s a weekly chart on its 103rd week of existence over at Sina: http://ent.sina.com.cn/f/y/rockchart/ It’s just come to my attention and I’m extremely surprised to see some very familiar names on there like [...]
Tags: Ember Swift, rock charts, rustic
wanna talk about silly crazy, pretty much out of control and borderline stupid chaos? then you’re referring to this past friday night when Trasher Magazine brought their King of the Road show to 2 Kolegas featuring Rustic, LSDemons, Bad Shit and SUBs along with skateboarders, free entry and open bar… yeah, you get my drift!!! [...]
Tags: Bad Shit, Converse, douchebag, King of the Road, LSDemons, rustic, SUBS, trasher magazine
October holidays are straight ahead folks with tons and i mean TONS of music opportunities in Beijing including festivals and what not…. Basically you gotta really try hard to not find anything interesting. I’ll do an October Holiday Quickslants later to deal with the flurry of shows next week. For now, here’s what the end [...]
Tags: Bone, Chunqiu, gumbleed, Helen Feng, lao da, Mariane Dissard, Misandao, Nova Heart, Old What Bar, Residence A, Rolling Bowling, rustic, skarving, Song Yuzhe, SUBS, The Unsafe
A couple of little ditties from the scene to hold you guys up! It’s looking like a busy weekend ahead but we’ll address that in the quickslants later this week! Remember The Unsafe ? I really dig the band and think they have interesting potential.. They showed up for an Ok set at the Punk [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Bad Mamasan, Kick Ass, muma, rustic, The Unsafe
I love that we have such a strong music scene here in Beijing, but when you have so many livehouses with shows on and then throw in an Aircraft carrier rave and Moon Beach party just outside the city, what you end up with is a dilution of fans; and bands who deserve to be [...]
Tags: bedstars, maybe mars, Proximity Butterfly, rustic, yugong yishan
We’re a bit late on this review mostly due to a hectic schedule and me getting ready for yet another overseas trip but I really wanted to get this in ahead of the Proximity Butterfly show at Yugong Yishan tonight (July 2). ‘daze on Reprieve: I’ve been keeping both eyes on this band for a [...]
Tags: bedstar, Proximity Butterfly, rustic
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
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