News to Ooze: Strawberry 2013, XTX, Juratt, Jue ….
so, with May approaching, Strawberry Festival draws first press blood: Dates have been announced for April 29-May 1 for both Beijing and Shanghai. This is gonna be a tricky one if they have to...
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2010 MIDI Awards Results: The Best of Chinese Rock or Something Like it
I’ve been browsing around trying to find a list of the winners from last night’s MIDI awards and it has finally popped up on Xie Tian Xiao’s Douban. He was one of the big...
MIDI Awards 2010 Announced… Ramblings, Predictability and Surprises
The MIDI awards nominations came out yesterday on Douban and The Beijinger was kind enough to translate the list. I would have given my two cents earlier but a freaking chest infection is getting...
Max Star day 6: For those about to rock under the pouring rain, we salute you!
Was that rain or was it rain this past saturday in Beijing? that was precipitations of biblical proportion folks and it made for one hell of a wet day for yours truly. I was...
Beijing music bits: Blackwater, Rustic, Maggie Who, Buyi, Vital Time, Redbucks, Bad Mamasan and others
Sometimes, it’s just hard to keep track of what’s going on in Beijing’s music scene, especially over the past few weeks where all the bands are coming out of their collective hibernations and comas....
Xie Tian Xiao’s Guzheng Reggae: Jamaican rhythms with Chinese Characteristics
In December 2009, Xie Tian Xiao 谢天笑 who is often referred to as China’s King of Live threw a curve ball at the music business by straying away from his grunge/hard rock roots and...
Humble Pie, it wasn’t a lie: Peace Show a reality (with an asterisk)
I came across the peace show website last week and was flabbergasted that no one in Beijing or China had spoken of it or about it considering how big of a deal it was....
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