Blog Tag - Q&A

Does My Vaccine Protect From Mutations? And Other Vax Q's Answered
It has been more than six months since the COVID-19 vaccines were made available in China and more than 80 percent of Beijingers have received a...
Mask After Vax? And Other Mask Questions Answered
The past year has seemingly turned us all into mini-epidemiologists, forced to learn the science behind how one particular virus spreads in order to...
British Rockers The Kooks Want to Make You Feel Less Alone, Nov 15
[Update, Nov 12, 11am] The Kooks have shared a video via their Twitter account in which lead singer Luke Pritchard explains how the band has been...
Tread the Line "Between Pleasant and Uncomfortable" With Acclaimed Ambient Producer Suzanne Kraft
What could be a more provocative backdrop than Amsterdam’s Red Light District? For LA producer Suzanne Kraft (born Diego Herrera), venturing to that...
Modern Troubadour Isaac Gracie: "It's Hard Not to be a Little Melancholic," Apr 25
"I'm terrified that maybe I wasn't cut out for this" sings Isaac Gracie in one of his hits "Terrified". The fear is perhaps not totally misplaced:...
Art-Pop Artist Jurga: "I Was a Shy and Frightened Child With Weak Voice", DDC Mar 10
Which one is more important when it comes to songs: lyrics or music? While pondering this unresolved (unresolvable?) question we approach Lithuanian...
Break Out Your Medieval Armour With the Electro Punk Twins From The Garden
What screams “punk” more than creating music in the framework of a made-up genre? Orange County, California twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears of The...
Beijing Lithuanian Cinema Week Leads With Tragicomedy and Puppetry, Jun 2-6
[UPDATE Jun 4, 11am] Unfortunately, due to a problem with sourcing the correct subtitles, the majority of these films will only be shown with Chinese...
Rumble in the Jumble
The heat of the summer is beginning to settle over the capital, which can only mean one thing: market season is here! Be it pursuing of earrings and...
The Bilinda Butchers Talk Dramatic Stories and Honoring My Bloody Valentine, May 21
The interplay and production between ideas taken from audio and visual elements are at the high tide, where music videos become cinematic...
DP: Feel the Burn: a Punch of Rich Indian-American Fusion with Side Street
In the lead up to our inaugural Hot & Spicy Festival on Apr 14-15 at Galaxy Soho, we'll Feel the Burn with a few of the vendors to see what fiery...
DP: "Music is Therapy" Says Experimental Electronic Music Producer Christopher Chaplin, Apr 3
With our attention spans shrinking in this smartphone age, it can be hard to find the time to submerge yourself in the aural plains of experimental...
A Boozy Farewell to Thierry de Dobbeleer After 12 Years of Beer Mania
Summer in Beijing is slowly coming to an end, which means for many of us that conversations are punctuated with that familiar "I've said goodbye to...
Building and Breaking Walls: An Art-Filled Sunday, Aug 20
While the summer heat is still in full-swing and the surface of Beijing is enduring 'beautifications' as we speak, artists are here to witness it all...
R More Than “Just a Bunch of Goths”; Q&A with Cold Cave Ahead of their May 21 Wetware Gig
Clad entirely in black leather and denim, coated in tattoos, and maintaining intense eye contact throughout our interview, Wesley Eisold and Max G....