it started with a bang at 2 Kolegas as Buyi, Nucleus, Rustic and Subs rocked the hell out of the drive-in. That was one hell of a good show to start the year and remains in the top ten of best shows in Beijing for 2011. Many bands came, some vanished, others just took a [...]
Tags: abaji, AK 47, Bad Mamasan, best of 2011, Bigger Bang, Black Snakes, Chunqiu, concrete blonde, da bang, dazeFEAST, Hanggai, la pegatina, Last Choice, Out of Control, SUBS, thin man
Hellooo Beijing.. miss me? I didn’t think so either. Ruby did an amazing job keeping the show on the road while I was out on an ear-cleaning mission. Many posts/comments coming up once I catch up but let’s first get started with some quick slants as tonight (wednesday) has some pretty darn solid offerings. Wednesday [...]
Tags: candy monster, DH & the hellcats, low bow, muma, Omnipotent youth society, second hand rose, skarving, Steely Heart, SUBS, voodoo kungfu
Sure, Beijing has the lion share of good musicians as far as the Chinese rock scene goes but other cities also have some pretty gifted acts. Shanghai based Top Floor Circus (顶楼马戏团 / dǐng lóu mǎxìtuán) is one of those! I caught them earlier this year at strawberry where they were one of the highlights [...]
Tags: SUBS, Top Floor Circus, yugong yishan
Hello Halloween! This is the one weekend of the year where audience members might actually out wear better attires than the band members. Sure enough, after last week’s low key offerings, we’re back to having a huge musical weekend. Let’s get going! Thursday Oct. 27: New Forces of Rock @ Mao: A bunch of youngish [...]
Tags: 16 min, army of jade kirin, Beijing Beatles, flaming heat, Flying Mantas, Moliere, Randy Able Stable, SUBS, Top Floor Circus, Unregenerate Blood
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
Man.. It’s Quickslants time already! This week has just flown past, I swear! Things got started yesterday at Temple with a lovely performance by the newly formed Lulu Galore & Sweet Leaf and we got a whole weekend to look forward to. It’s looking like a slightly understated weekend for livemusic in Beijing but in [...]
Tags: 16 min, Arrows Made of Desire, Bad Mamasan, carsic cars, discord, gumbleed, long shen dao, Lulu Galore & Sweet Leaf, open mic, perdel, skarving, SUBS, The Unsafe, wu tun, xiao he, yugong yishan
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