Blog Tag - rock

Weekend Live Music Roundup: P.K. 14, Carsick Cars, Acoustic Metal Show
Local record label Maybe Mars is a bit obsessed with distinguishing generations lately. Their new release Generation Six just came out recently,...
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New Years Eve at the Star Live, Free the Birds "flied," Hanggai khoomeied, punkheads jumped with Misandao, metal diehards moshed with Suffocate. In...
2011 Live Music Roundup: Cui Jian, the Eagles, Helloween, 30 Seconds to Mars
My 2010 started with New Pants' absence at the Orange Hall of Sanlitun Village. But over the next 12 months, the music scene thrived in Beijing...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Queen of XXXXing Everything, Part of The Best China Band & Final RandomK(e) Gig
The temperature may be dropping into the below zero range, but some of Beijing's best acts are just coming back to the city, while others are moving...
Strong, Deep, But Not Crazy: Hanggai Return to Beijing
Although Hanggai is a genuine Beijing band, we hardly see them in town these days. Touring around Europe and showing the world rock music Mongolian...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Folk and Rock Buyi, Pioneers' Festival and Other Folky Blues
I have mistakenly thought of Buyi as a folk band for a long time. Maybe it's because of their name: Buyi (布衣), meaning cotton cloths or common...
Shouwang Speaks Out on the Carsick Cars Split
Carsick Cars' announcement of their split from the stage of Yugong Yishan on Tuesday came as a shock to many, but band leader Zhang Shouwang...
The Local and Exotic Amazing Insurance Salesman
Zhang Si'an is actually a Frenchman named Jean-Sébastien Héry, aka "the French guy who plays Chinese folk music with a Chinese instrument." Now he...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Rustic, X is Y, Liquid Oxygen Can
With DJs and VJs trashing the hutongs more and more often, it’s time for the rock bands to take down Sanlitun. Rustic and Residence A are leading...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: The Gar, Dead Farmers, Scream Night and Laowais
The international acts front is a bit quiet this weekend, but sometimes we need only one band to keep it loud and crazy. Aussie punks Dead Farmers...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Buzzcocks, Hang on the Box, Today is Autumn
There are usually two types of things that interest people - the newest things and really old stuff that can last: craftworks, books, songs, movies...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Heaven Shall Burn, Gangzi Tuliguer, Ourself Beside Me
You probably just had a long week, but Beijing never gives you a rest – there's always so much happening. Sometimes I feel it's even a waste to...