The World Cup still holds it’s grip over Beijing nightlife this weekend with vuvuzela being the instrument de jour. It’s relatively quiet on the music front, but Saturday has some gigs not to be missed. Thursday June 24 Zhang Si’an @ Jianghu One of the city’s busiest musicians Jean-Sébastien gave us some free music a [...]
Tags: Jean Sebastian Heru, rustic, The Redbucks, Zippo Hot List
Saturday was a pretty good day for music in Beijing with both The Redbucks and Miserable Faith having album releases on the same evening. I ended up at Yugong Yishan for my prescribed dose of Americana Made From China and loved most of it with The Redbucks on top of their game (and despite a [...]
Tags: Jaime Welton, The Redbucks, yugong yishan
It ain’t no secret folks, I love me an honest to goodness good time getting down and dirty with some roots music and bourbon.. I do have a hillbilly bone in there, maybe more than one.. and The Redbucks appeal to it. I’ve been following those guys since the first time i spotted them at [...]
Tags: bluegrass, The Redbucks, yugong yishan
Well, still awards season here in Beijing and I couldn’t be happier!! My good friends from The Redbucks have taken Band of the Year in Beijing at the 2010 City Weekend Awards! As Jamie Welton said in his interview a few days ago: [...]I am really digging the Redbucks when I see them around….it’s nice [...]
Tags: Pet Conspiracy, The Redbucks
I find myself on average at about 3 or 4 live shows each week and one person I’m almost certain to come across is Jaime Welton of Bad Mamasan & Black Cat Bone. Whether it’s at 2 Kolegas, Jianghu Jiu Ba or Haidian Park for MIDI, the mas is there up front banging his head [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, Chunqiu, The Redbucks
Sometimes, it’s just hard to keep track of what’s going on in Beijing’s music scene, especially over the past few weeks where all the bands are coming out of their collective hibernations and comas. Last friday at 2Kolegas marked the last show of You Mei You as they’re gearing up for a rebranding of sorts [...]
Tags: Bad Mamasan, blackwater, buyi, Maggie Who, The Redbucks, vital time, wu & side effects, xie tianxiao
Thanks to Daisy for “Never Lonelier”.. it was downloaded 218 times in April and 133 times in may as of yesterday before I removed it!!! We’re on a roll folks thanks to the amazing contributions of our Beijing buddy musicians… We’ve already had Mademoiselle and her Gypsy Jazz, ChunQiu (Spring Autumn) with Mando-Metal and Black [...]
Tags: Daisy Sweetgrass, The Redbucks
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