damn damn damn… another year goes down, another calendar thrown out, a few more gray hairs and it’s the end of 2011 folks! Let’s see it go down in flames. Last year, the lineups for NYE shows were mighty impressive and it was pretty darn hard to pick one. This time around, it’s a bit [...]
Tags: AV okubo, carsick cars, DH & the hellcats, Flying Mantas, gar, Hoochie Coochie Gentlemen, Lazy Camels, Nucleus, PK 14, Residence A, Rolling Bowling, whai, wu & side effects, wu hongfei
The quickslants are coming in a bit late this week folks but trust me, it’s been freaking busy as hell on this side of ‘daze HQ. Plenty of goodies happening around town with some of them in places we’re not used to writing about much anymore! Friday August 19 Growl 4 @ Mao: CMCB, Suffocated, [...]
Tags: CMCB, Nanwu, Nucleus, skarving, Suffocated, The Rudeness, wu & side effects
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
I’m not sure where to start reviewing this baby because it’s so close to my heart and it’s very very very freaking biased but here comes folks! It’s gonna be a long one so buckle up and get a cup of coffee! I’ll start off by thanking 2 Kolegas for being the perfect venue and [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, back cat bone, Black Snakes, dazeFEAST, Dude, Lidong, mademoiselle, Maggie Who, Michael Dallin, Nucleus, randy abel stable, richard todd, ruby, wu & side effects, Zhang Si An
oh boy… where to start? As far as parties go, the best ones this year have been at 2 kolegas (see new year bash)! Those guys just know how to throw down the fun times and get a party started. Last year was memorable, this year was even bigger! How did it all go down? [...]
Tags: 2 kolegas, buyi, le fant, skarving, SUBS, wu & side effects
I don’t think i have to expand too much on the fact that I really dig 2 Kolegas as a venue and a community. The places is chilled, crowd mostly down to earth, the owners and management some of the most fun people to hang out with in Beijing etc…. When Blake Stone-Banks penned his [...]
Tags: 2 Kolegas 6 year anniversary, buyi, liu miao, mushroom, SUBS, tofu, wu & side effects
last week at 2 Kolegas saw an interesting show take place where throughout the evening, things just kept going right and the stars all lined up for the bands. It was a pretty solid bill with The Ghost Spardac making a rare trip outside of Gulou, Amazing Insurance Salesmen coming out of post-GBoB hibernation as [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, Ghost Spardac, Nucleus, wu & side effects
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