There’s been a lot of talk about the over abundance of festivals in China this year. Jon Campbell and China Daily, both have interesting posts on this. I agree 4 festivals competing in one weekend in Beijing is just stupid, but this my year of seeing more of China, and taking advantage of festivals and [...]
Tags: cuijian, live music, music festival, Nanwu, Steely Heart, tricky, XTX
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
Festivals are behind us, for now and we’re getting ready to get back on a more regular steady diet of performances. How is it all looking this weekend? Pretty darn good! Thursday May 12: Noisey.com Launch @ YGYS: So the website aims to make people discover new music… I can swing with that! They’ve set [...]
Tags: candy monster, Ember Swift, Flying Mantas, Jacky Danny, me guan me, Steely Heart, The Clamps, The Morlocks
As bad as I thought the friday at Yugong Yishan was, the show at Mao Live more than made up for saturday night. I missed Jacky Danny and Kick Ass but managed to catch Steely Heart, Dude, Los Crashers and the Flying Mantas for a rocking good time. The show must have started early as [...]
Tags: Dude, Flying Mantas, Jacky Danny, Kick Ass, Los Crashers, Steely Heart
interesting weekend ahead y’all with tons of happenings all around Beijing. TEDx is sure to mobilize the masses, Bookswap and board games rocking things along and finally a slew of Shanghai bands coming up to make some noise in Beijing. Thursday November 11: Gangzi @ Jianghu: The Inner-Mongolian Metalhead-turned-folkster will be holding court in jianghu [...]
Tags: Dude, Kick Ass, Residence A, rustic, shanghai, Steely Heart, X is Y
I heard rumors of this crazy Taiwanese band a few weeks ago from the good folks at Kungfuology and decided to keep an eye out for their Beijing show which i mistakenly wrote down as being on April 17. As I shuffled through Mao Live’s website, I saw their listing for last night and I [...]
Tags: Mao Livehouse, Steely Heart, The White Eyes
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