I’ve been browsing around trying to find a list of the winners from last night’s MIDI awards and it has finally popped up on Xie Tian Xiao’s Douban. He was one of the big winners of the night taking in 2 awards just like last year.. And your award winners are: Album of the Year: [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, Nanwu, xie tianxiao
The MIDI awards nominations came out yesterday on Douban and The Beijinger was kind enough to translate the list. I would have given my two cents earlier but a freaking chest infection is getting in my way. SO.. what’s the deal yo? It’s an interesting list and it’s really tough to find any faults with [...]
Tags: free the birds, MIDI, MIDI Awards 2010, Miserable Faith, suffocate, xie tianxiao
Was that rain or was it rain this past saturday in Beijing? that was precipitations of biblical proportion folks and it made for one hell of a wet day for yours truly. I was supposed to catch the Punk Festival at Mao then head on to Ditan Park but for once, Mao decided to get [...]
Tags: Brain Failure, carsick cars, Max Star Festival, Nancheng Brother, Twisted Machine, xie tianxiao
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
In December 2009, Xie Tian Xiao 谢天笑 who is often referred to as China’s King of Live threw a curve ball at the music business by straying away from his grunge/hard rock roots and releasing a Reggae album: 古筝雷鬼 (chinese zither reggae volume 1). I’ve listened to the record for about a week now and [...]
Tags: chinese reggae, xie tianxiao, XTX, 谢天笑
I came across the peace show website last week and was flabbergasted that no one in Beijing or China had spoken of it or about it considering how big of a deal it was. A little blog post and a side tweet got a few folks on it looking for details but there were none [...]
Tags: humble pie, Jimmy Page, xie tianxiao, XTX
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