It was almost exactly 1 year ago to the day that I got my first taste of Wu Force at Capital M. With Abigail Washburn based in the US and WuFei here in the Jing, I’ve had to wait until now for them to get back together to get a second helping of their unique [...]
Tags: abigail washburn, kai welch, wu force, wufei, yugong yishan
Is it so wrong to see the same band three times in 10 days? In my defense, the first show was to see them, the second to see two other bands and they just happened to be on the bill, and the third was to see an international act who they just happened to be [...]
Tags: Residence A, two gallants, yugong yishan
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
I’m shocked. There’s a whole week of new electronic music by visiting composers from all over the world at the Central Conservatory of Music (中央音乐学院), and I just found out last night. Apparently through Oct 30, festival MusicAcoustica will hold lectures, exhibitions and performances every day at the conservatory and other venues – ends with [...]
Tags: Beijing Central Conservatory, electronic music, Mari Kimura, Max Tundra, Musicacoustica, yugong yishan
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
I love that we have such a strong music scene here in Beijing, but when you have so many livehouses with shows on and then throw in an Aircraft carrier rave and Moon Beach party just outside the city, what you end up with is a dilution of fans; and bands who deserve to be [...]
Tags: bedstars, maybe mars, Proximity Butterfly, rustic, yugong yishan
BD and I both took the chance to get out of the city last weekend, but early morning flights didn’t stop us heading out to Friday night shows! While he was checking out AIS, Ghost Spardac & Candy Monster at the drive-in, I popped into the newly re-opened Yugong Yishan to see Daze Central favourites [...]
Tags: album launch, live music, rustic, yugong yishan
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