With all the shows lined up for the Qing Ming Holiday (most of which are under the Sound of the Xity 影响城市之声 banner) it would be quite easy to overlook a show because I’m not familiar with the band’s name. Luckily for me a friend happened to give me a heads up about Sound Toy [...]
Tags: sound of the Xity, sound toy, yugong yishan
It’s been around 8 months since I last saw AIS play, but the long awaited (for me at least!) reunion of last year’s China GBoB winning band finally happened last Saturday at Yugong Yishan, with their friends Bye, Bye Thanks for the Fish and Flaming Heat in support. Even Shanghai’s intriguing performance noise band Torturing [...]
Tags: Amazing insurance salesmen, bye bye thanks for the fish, flaming heat, yugong yishan
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
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