Punk You Beijing: 4 Days Spring Extravaganza
To say that the punk scene in Beijing is active is an understatement… The kids that make it up, under the leadership of Misandao, are always present on the city’s listings for live gigs...
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Quickslants: A Devil Goes Away, Metal Friendship, Contemporary Xinjiang and more…
August is pretty much over and the bands are back in town after spending their summer touring around the country taking part in countless festivals. gemenr men and jiemenr men, welcome back. It’s been...
Quickslants: Women’s Day, Jue, Punks and Japanese Noise
A bit of a late quickslants edition but as they say, better late than never. A whole lotta things going on for the weekend and even early next week so let’s get right into...
2012 Beijing 9th Annual Punk Festival Schedule and promo video
A lot of bands playing this weekend all over the place folks at the guys at Mao have gone ahead with releasing the schedule of performances for both days. This is a habit they...
Punks, 16min, Dialects, Releases and other tidbits
It’s nice to have time to ramble on again… been way too busy around here for the last few weeks. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that tomorrow, Saturday August 11th,...
Quick Slants: The Punk Uprising, Boredom BrigadeS, Backyard Secrets and a Rant
This is really a boring summer musically folks. I love my Beijing bands but really, even the quickslants are becoming redundant with the same bands playing every week and in some case, 3 or...
Quickslants: IZ returns, Book Swap, Olympic Rock, Simple Plan, Folks of the World and more
Welcome to 2012 darlings… let’s make sure it rocks! For this first edition of the quick slants, we find ourselves all over the spectrum with choices. Some of them definitely rocking! It might seem...
National Holiday Quickslants: Modern Sky, Super Ningxia, Old What fun, Charity and more
It’s been a beautiful beginning for october in Beijing with blue skies, mild temperatures and freaking empty roads… oh yeah! For those of us fortunate enough to be in Beijing and enjoying the quiet,...
Quickslants: Bone Rock, Free Kolegas, Lao Da’s Revenge, Old What Turn 9 and more
October holidays are straight ahead folks with tons and i mean TONS of music opportunities in Beijing including festivals and what not…. Basically you gotta really try hard to not find anything interesting. I’ll...
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...
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