Blog Tag - Live Music Review

Rock Recap: Pet Conspiracy Takes Gig to Great Heights
Local legends Pet Conspiracy and curatorial team 8actagon Projects hijacked Yugong Yishan for what was billed as a metaphysical, visually shocking,...
Photos: Nite Jewel
XP was 'xtra packed last night for the latest offering from Split Works, Nite Jewel, Ramona Gonzalez’s fusion synth pop project born out of the same...
Goodbye D-22: Inside The Last Nights
About one kilometer east from Wudaokou subway station, on the south side of Chengfu Lu, there’s a dark sign with an odd name on it – D-22. If you’ve...
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...
Say Hello To The Best New Band In Beijing
After the ten heats over the last month across town, the Tiger Translate Battle of The Bands came to its Beijing finale on Sunday with a full house...
Tango Goes Animal for the Neon Trees
When your claim to fame is a single English song, putting on your first concert in a country halfway across the world might be a little nerve-...
Tiger Translate Battle Of The Bands – Brit-pop, Indie and Pop Hardcore
There has been lots of musical excitement going on around town lately; big acts keep coming one after another. But that doesn’t mean we should...
Queen Sea Big Shark, Reflector And Unstoppable Young Powers
Tiger Translate Battle of Bands had its first two rounds on the weekend. The commercialized atmosphere took me quite some time to adapt to, but...
If Workers' Gymnasium Was A Bar – Review of Bob Dylan Live in Beijing
It's commonly known that you can't predict a Dylan concert; apparently he's up and down all the time. Regarding the concert last night, if Dylan was...
Metal in the Middle of Nowhere – Helloween and Stratovarius Review
Finding two of Europe's most influential metal bands in Beijing is a treat and a curse. A treat because they are consistently good live, but a curse...
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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...
Farmer's Art to Springsteen: Su Yang's Like a Grass
There was barely any festival sign at the Star Live, but the atmosphere there last Friday was probably warmer and more intimate than any over...
Weekend Live Music Roundup: Namo, Bigger Bang and Secret band at Old What
I'm going to start with MAO Livehouse this week. Did you go there last Saturday? Omnipotent Youth Society played and ex-Joyside's Bian Yuan warmed...
Loving the Buzzcocks Buzz
When I watch the old documentaries and movies about England in the '60s or '70s, I often wish I could have lived in that era. However, it seemed...