With Daze Feast preparations well underway, and BD’s new baby, Cuju, due to open next week, things are little busy here at Daze HQ, but you can be sure that’s not going to stop us catchin...
well, I guess this might be one of the worst kept secrets in Beijing folks but it’s time to make this baby official: When I set out to organize ‘dazeFEAST last year in June, I had absolut...
Longshendao had a pretty good year in 2011, releasing their album TaiChi reggae, taking home two Midi Awards (best rock band & best album), appearing on BD’s top 5 albums of the year and releasi...
This one has been a bit under the radar, probably due to the high number of special shows we’ve had in Beijing the last few weeks. Still, plenty of time remains to go and check out this huge ar...
I think May is officially “Music Month” in Beijing… we got things started with festivals and we’re finishing them up with the yearly 2 Kolegas bash and the Beijing Blues Festi...
I don’t delve much in Electro but i figured some readers care and it might be a good thing to pass this information i just got.. Man, talk about last freaking minute change! Venue change 48h be...
a lot of happenings in town the last few week have kept me beyond busy with half a dozen unfinished reviews.. They’ll come out sooner or later! In the meantime, a few things have been happening...
with the untimely demise of CD Blues Cafe, there was a lot of doubt as to whether or not their yearly Blues Festival would go ahead. I mean, how can you organize such a thing when your location is sh...
I’ve really been in a video mode lately and I’m still amazed that given how cheap technology has gotten as of late, not more artists chose to do them. I just stumbled across one yesterday...
it’s been a hell of a week folks but i’ll be damned if i miss a quickslant so here it is, better late than ever. Friday May 18th: Randy Abel Stable will rock 2 Kolegas along with The Litt...
Migration complete… the bird has landed… I’ve been trying to come up with cool poetic ways to get things started on this Lidong album review to match the band’s music and lyri...
I rarely write about a local band’s upcoming show just for the heck of it but these cats are special. Last time they were in Beijing, there was not a freaking way in hell to get a ticket for th...
I wasn’t really planning on covering much of CMV, mostly because I’m probably not gonna make it there this weekend with too many commitments already but for those of you planning to go, t...
It’s been a long time coming and one way to look at it is that anything worth doing is worth taking a long time to do well. Lixia et Co. must have had that in mind over the past few years…...
There’s a lingering feeling that most of us are suffering from post-festival apathy.. too much music, too little time and tons of other obligations. Still, no rest for the wicked and things are...
I’ve been noticing a trend over the past few months where more mainstream brands are reaching out to the “underground” rock scene and using them openly in commercials. Sure, pop sta...
So I was pretty darn ticked off to have missed these guys last sunday at the Hanggai Music Festival… freaking scooter be blamed! But here a video of them in action which makes me even more mad ...
Well, I haven’t exactly spent that much time there over the past few years but it’s still shocking, sad and abrupt: A Notice went out today that CD Blues Cafe is closing and tonight will ...
I’ve been looking for this one since i saw the first post about it over a month ago.. Why? just look at the names coming in and the numbers of countries/ethnics represented! Hanggai, in organiz...
A couple of months ago, the team behind Rock in China wiki and good ‘daze friends set out to collect samplers from all around China to get a feel for what was happening in the ‘core side ...
I’m not sure I’ve entirely recovered from last weekend’s musical onslaught.. really folks! MIDI rocked the shit out of me, especially with an awesome Miserable Faith performance. Ni...
I make no qualms about Ditan Folk Festival Being one of my favorite days of the years. As I wrote before, it’s the perfect day to bring together all the musos and non-musos alike for a whole da...
I spent the day at MIDI yesterday so I figured I’d throw in a couple of notes and comments for those planning or trying to decide whether to go there or not. - The new location is superb…...
You ever get the feeling that sometimes, things get lost in translation? specially when there is no trust? I wrote a few days back about the Dream Theater show cancellation, being slightly ticked off...
I’m not buying this whole bullshit about the market being big enough for the onslaught of music festivals we’re getting over the next few days. It’s splitting and diluting the marke...
seriously, I’ve lived in 4 continents, countless cities and seen my share of shows but nothing compares to the musical onslaught that is about to be unleashed on Beijing over the next 5 days. I...
well folks, another cancellation hits Beijing and the folks from Guitar China… This was posted on Dream Theater’s official website and i guess it speaks for itself, no need for me to say ...
Some random news coming around today.. The reclusive Zhang Chu,originally scheduled to headline MIDI day 1 on April 29, has some emergency. None other than Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock, is...
Sneaking up on us among the big fests, MMAX (玛克思） is being billed as part of “Chaoyang Pop Week” on ticket site chinaticket, to be held out at Chaoyang Sports Center from April 29 to May ...
I keep being asked why i’m so excited to see Abaji in Beijing and it’s a bit difficult to explain.. But this is the kind of stuff i love: A Jam session between him, Zhang Wei Wei and Song...
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