Blog Category - Live Music

Noise Pollution: Agoraphobia, Pizza Face, Gaku, Arctic Ox, Yoo Doo Right, Hang Nail, Asian Dope Boys
Beijing is your musical oyster, so let’s dig in and get our hands dirty.
Sino Hearts
We caught up with Yuxin Zhong of The Sino Hearts to discuss global adventures, his workmanship, and forging musical relationships. 
Noise Pollution: No Entry, Wonder Sea, Unbounded Chamber Orchestra, Peking Floyd, 8 Immortals Restaurant, The Molds
It’ll be getting nice and muggy before cooling down this weekend, so we might as well just lay into it with this blitzkrieg of music.
Noise Pollution: Backspace, Curry3000, Nocturnes, Kamau, Hind Brain, Wild Reggae Guide, Empty Eyes
Post-holiday whiplash getting to you? Then maybe it’s time to dip back into Beijing’s bustling live music scene!
Noise Pollution: Default, Purgatory, Clover, Xi Festival, Shanghai Qiutian, Zhou Yunpeng, Division Control, 6501
It’s Mayday boys and girls! Five straight days of no-frills entertainment courtesy of our fine capital city!
DP The Juice
BlackEXPO brings its unique flavor to Xian Bar on Saturday, Apr 24 for an all-day market that grooves well into the night.
Ticket Giveaway: Xi Festival's Immersive Music, Arts, and Culture Experience Takes Over Longfusi, May 1-5
From May 1-5, more than 60 Beijing-based DJs, musicians, and creatives will take over the ninth-floor rooftop of Longfu Cultural Center.
Noise Pollution: Qi Zitan, Haha Master, Shao, Soil Godliness, B&W Bullet, Axis Neptune
Roll the dice and pick at will one of these live music gigs. Something's bound to stick.
Noise Pollution: Birdstriking, BoXuan, Narakam, J-Fever, Whale Circus, ReJianBeiShaShou
While Qingming Festival and Easter duke it out for our attention (wicker baskets, fire bins, and all), the music scene has other plans.
Noise Pollution: Los Crasher, Favours!, Agoraphobia, Xiao Wang, Cui Longyang, Sound Fragment
Whether your poison is jangly surf pop, exuberant and volatile punk rock, or apocalyptic synth doom, Beijing has you covered.
Noise Pollution: Hind Brain, Hangnail, Tim Somnia, Shave 'N' Shut, CMCB, New Age of Decay, Harvest Festival
From wistful indie-pop to blood-curling metal and experimental noise, the options at hand cover the entire musical rainbow this week.
Q&A With Poet, Mystic, Ahead of Kente & Silk's "By the Fireside," Mar 20
This Saturday, Mar 20, will see the third installment of By the Fireside, a celebration of African voices, stories, and art.
Noise Pollution: Poetry in Shorts, Hiperson, Future Orients, Endless White, Birdstriking, Bad Sweetheart
With the remnants of the Two Sessions still giving most Beijingers a logistical headache, the music scene continues to show signs of life.
Noise Pollution: Supermarket, Never Before, Pizza Face, thruoutin, Simplicity Lover, springiscoming
With spring comes life, and nowhere is that more true than deep inside Beijing's music scene.
Tokyo Lounge
Tokyo Lounge is the newest livehouse concept from Paul Chen of Sanlitun’s The Bricks.