well well well… Meaty Quickslants ahead sailors! It’s been quite sometimes since we’ve seen a busy little week worth of music in this town! Almost too long! This week, pretty much all the usual suspect are back in action with only 2 Kolegas hibernating. I’m going through such a Ningxia withdrawal that I’ve decided to [...]
Tags: Glow Curve, Hot Cat Club of Beijing, immanu el, Jorma Kaukonen, Opeth, randy abel stable, Sand
Sometimes I wonder if the sheer amount of shows on in this city is a blessing or a curse. There’s been countless times I’ve wanted to split myself in 3 to make sure I don’t miss anything. Saturday was one of those nights. After a mellow Friday hanging out 5 mins from home at Old [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, chiren, hot cat, illness sickness, jianghu, Lidong, Sand, the k
After the musical onslaught that was last week, I’m really looking forward to a slow weekend with a few opportunities to catch up with friends away from concert halls and live houses. Still, there are a few things going on in town that could be interesting to check out. Let’s see what’s on the menu: [...]
Tags: arcane saints, Bookswap, Dude, lao da, Lao Liu, li tieqiao, Lidong, liu yusi, Los Crasher, randy abel stable, Residence A, Sand, shuang zi, The Beijinger, The Powder Power, Vasko Atanasovski
Just about a week ago was the last day of that Marathon stretch of festivals that kept yours truly along with a few thousand others pretty darn busy. See the previous festival-related posts: – Festive Hangover: Quick Notes from a weekend of music, sand and fun – MIDI Day 1: Tales of Rock, Suffocated, SUBS, [...]
Tags: 5-4, AK 47, Audio's Pain, Ming's Pretty heroes, Miserable Faith, Reflector, Sand, Your FAvorite Enemy
a bit of an early quickslants edition this week folks.. it’s mostly got to do with a good gig at 2 Kolegas on Tuesday night that might prove to be quite the rock show this week so let’s get down to business for what is one of the busiest quickslants in a while. The week [...]
Tags: Pet Conspiracy, Sand, The Redbucks
This set to be a big music weekend with the 2 Kolegas 5th birthday party on Friday and Saturday. But I couldn’t help sneaking in another gig on Friday night to get the weekend started. While BeijingDaze was at Yugong Yishan, I was not far away at one of my favourite music venues Jianghu Liveshow [...]
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