Quickslants: Goodbye Zac, Buyi 18, Jiangjinjiu 8 and more
Nothing a like a long weekend to bring out the fun good times in Beijing.. and the bands as well. What thing you can count on is pretty much 5 days that neither feel...
Category: Tunes under the moon
Album Review: Shan Ren’s Listen to the Mountain- A Schizophrenic Enjoyable Conversation
I last left Shan Ren riding high at the end of the 2012 dongpai festival, heading into a break after setting themselves up as sole representative of a new China genre called tractor metal....
Quickslants: Longshendao, Book Swap, Zhang Yimu etc
yeah… that’s me this week! incredibly shortslants coming up for y’all to get your fix: Friday night, Longshendao brings the reggae down to 2 Kolegas! It’s good weather, grass, nice music and perfect for...
Quickslants: 2 Kolegas turns 8, Dong Zi and more weekend music
It’s a special weekend and issue of quickslants folks… heck, it’s a very short quickslants because the ever-biased me can only think of a handful of shows worth checking out this weekend: Friday night:...
Quickslants: Tambours du Bronx, New Shanren, Painkiller Fest and more
stop me if you have heard this before: here comes a crazy few days of too many decent/wonderful musical choices for us to deal with. The onslaught began monday with no hype on that...
Mamer & Song Yuzhe: opposites attract at Jianghu
Let me set the scene. In one corner you have a guy sitting on a stool, wearing a black t-shirt and jeans, shoulder wavy length hair sticking out of a black cap pulled down...
Dreamer Festival 2013 – Azure Ray, Shan Ren, Omnipotent Youth Society and More
well well well! did you think festival season was already over? Heck no!! With all the debates and chats about MIDI, Strawberry and the cancelled dongpai, the 2013 Dreamer Festival of Indie Music almost...
PS: You Rocked Me – Abaji, One Drop, Devils, Yungiema etc..
sometimes, doing reviews of whole shows can be a bit repetitive but i always wanna give the devil his due.. so unless the show is mindblowing, i think i’m gonna switch to a new...
Quickslants: No Dong, Some Punk, a Little Ordnance and more
the big expected gig of the week would have been the Dongpai Folk Festival at 2 KOlegas but if you’re read the site yesterday, you know that it is pretty much dead in the...
MIDI 2013: Anywhere, Anytime, Thanks for the Rock n Roll
Ah.. so, despite the temptations of XTX at Strawberry, yours truly couldn’t resist the call of rock n roll! I just had to get me my MIDI May Day fix, no matter how far...
What once started as my personal ramblings has morphed into the number one collective resource about underground live music in Beijing and China. All bands, all music, all Rock n Roll, all the time with a little side of eclectic topics.. best of all, it's still as BIASED as ever