Temple Turns 3: An Altar of Rock n Roll, Excess and Good Times
It’s really been 3 years? I mean it doesn’t seem like there was a gulou dong da jie without Temple at any point in time but yeah, that little venue has made its mark...
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Quickslants: Queen Sea, Tiger, Insurance and more Weekend Music Options
I’m almost recovered from the mayhem that was dazeFEAST and just about ready to get back out again… partly due to avoiding the mosh pit yesterday at Mao Live during ChunQiu’s return to the...
Quickslants: Folk for the People, Bad Mamasan, Wan Xiaoli, Tea Quintet, Ma Tiao’s New Album, D-22’s last show and more
I’ve been trying to get the quickslants in early this week mostly for tonight’s show at Mako in support of the young Hasetie’er. Friday is gonna be one of those “it’s fucking hard to...
Never Mind The Bollocks, Those Are The Beijing Punks
my oh my what a night saturday was! I had been looking forward to the Punk festival for a few weeks now but nothing prepared me for the amount of fun and atmosphere that...
quickslants: Punks in Love, Reggae Parties and a Swapping good time
A strange weekend ahead in Beijing with some pretty low key events taking place all around the city, a few of which have really cool potential. The biggie of Course is the 8th annual...
Mao Live 2010 Awards: For those about underground rock, we salute you
So, earlier this year ( or late last year) we had the MIDI awards that follow the standard award formula to a T… Interesting winners but mostly established bands with a few surprises. Not...
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