Blog Tag - 2 Kolegas

Weekend Live Music Roundup: Mamer, Longshendao, D-22's Last Night, Death Cab For Cutie
Breaking news. Death Cab For Cutie will play in Beijing this March. More details to follow. The biggest annual migration on the planet officially...
Have You Met: The Tea Rockers Quintet
Who’d have thought that noise hypnotist Yan Jun, folk maverick Xiao He, academic guqin player Wu Na, underground multi-instrument nomad Li Daiguo...
Christmas Live Music Roundup: Voodoo Kungfu, DH & Chinese Hellcats, Hedgehog
Somehow Christmas in China has become as ear-torturing as it is in the West – all the malls, restaurants and markets play only Christmas music...
Weekend Live Music Reviews: Hanggai, Shanren
Hanggai They twist those vintage roots into bass riffs and rhythms that would rattle any metal head to bliss. The grassland troupe rocked 2 Kolegas...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Hanggai, Shanren, Demerit, will.i.am
These past two years have been a booming time for folk music in Beijing. Maybe it’s because more and more people started to find out how easy it is...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Hedgehog, Boys Climbing Ropes, Invisible Landscape
It's another diverse weekend in Beijing’s music scene to keep the city heated and, as usual, we've a rich list of choices: rock, folk, jazz, electro...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Brain Failure, Miji Concert, Re-Tros
This will be an amazing weekend for music people. Even during music festivals it’s rare to see so many brilliant characters being so active over a...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Ember Swift, Buyi & D-22
September is an exciting month. I know that school is starting again, and summer comes to an end, but we will have much new blood in the city, and...
Talking Pints: Black Sun Rising, Box Birthday, Peter Hook, DJ Fu
The Black Sun at Chaoyang Park West Gate is under new, and foreign, management. For many years, this bar has been a decent enough place to stop for...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Second Hand Rose, Metal Feast
No matter if you like their teasing Chinese country-rock or not, Second Hand Rose is always fun to watch. Most people would agree that they are not...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Acoustic Spring & Autumn, Dazefeast, Brain Failure
While the heat keeps driving me away from big crowds, those quiet folk bars in the hutongs starts to look even more attractive. But I've been told...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Suede And James Blunt Confirmed, Chinese Bands Compete to Play in Japan
Beijing (Aug 7) and Shanghai (Aug 9) have finally been added to Suede's tour schedule. Tickets are available now. Move fast – the cheapest (RMB 280...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: 2 Kolegas' 6th Anniversary, MAO Keeps Rocking
Despite a report today by Global Times claiming that MAO Livehouse would be temporarily closed for the same fire saftey-related reasons as Yugong...
Grand Slam: Wicked Wordsmith Omar Musa At the BILF
Is the 27-year-old Malaysian Australian Omar Musa a rapper with the heart of a poet, or a poet with the heart of a rapper? No matter, we're lucky...
Amazing Graze: The Field at 2 Kolegas
Axel Willner, aka The Field, was working in a Swedish liquor store when his debut album came out. He’s since made sampling Kate Bush into an art form...