Blog Tag - Talking Tunes

2016 Strawberry Festival Tickets Now on Sale, Option to Camp For All Three Days
Early bird tickets for the 2016 Strawberry Music Festival, scheduled for April 30-May 2, went on sale today at noon. It should be a triumphant return...
Pre-Cancelled: The Shows That Could Have Been in 2015
While most years we have our fair share of gigs from out-of-towners that ultimately meet their fate on the chopping board, in 2015 we were flooded...
Best Concerts of 2015
While more than a handful of highly anticipated concerts were cancelled due to “the man” this year, here are the best gigs from visiting musicians we...
Get a Whiff of This: Q&A With Perfume Genius
After two solid albums, this fragrant young act is making a name for himself with sophisticated pop songs that would undeniably make his glamorous...
China Drifting Festival: Experience Live Orchestral Techno This Friday With Brandt Brauer Frick at Yugong Yishan
No China Drifting Festival isn’t an awkward tribute to the defensive driving maneuver featured in the Fast and Furious films, it is rather a touring...
Sally Can't Dance: Experience the Front Line of China's Experimental Music Boom This Weekend at School Bar
The (avant-garde) musical event of the month is without contest the fourth edition of Sally Can’t Dance. This lineup of mostly Chinese musical...
Q&A: Alan Palomo (AKA Neon Indian) Takes us to Night School
Riding on the wave of his hot off the press new album, VEGA INTL Night School, Alan Palomo's Neon Indian project hits Beijing on November 19 at...
Your Weekend in Live Music: Horse Radio, Gum Bleed, LuvPlastik, GuiGuiSuiSui, Nakoma, The Final Impact, Stevie Mac & The Mac Daddies
Below is the best this week has to offer in Beijing’s music realm. While most of this weekend’s attention is going to the BEME festival happening...
Neon Indian to Play Yungong Yishan on Nov. 19
Split Works were gearing up for another season of gigs, fresh off their Black Rabbit Festival in Shanghai last month. Texan, Alan Palomo’s hip day-...
Jonathan Alpart Signs Off With Six Band Blowout at School Bar This Friday (Oct 8)
It looks like CRI’s The Sound Stage is ending their transmission, as their beloved host and one-time Beijinger intern, Jonathan Alpart, will be...
Orchestra of Spheres: Q&A With Wellington New Zealand's Freakiest Band of Merry Pranksters
Drawing upon numerous influences including shangaan electro, free improv, and disco, these weirdos from Wellington, New Zealand, have been thrilling...
Gigs of the Week: Shocking Pinks, GUIGUISUISUI, Nakoma & Glow Curve, and Muse
Ahead are the best raucous rock shows of the week, sure to get your head bobbing or banging through your precious leisure time.  Sep 18: Shocking...
Gigs of the Week: Lifafa, Deecracks, Ran Live Vol. 1, Nite Fields
Break that weekly grind with some exceptional musical offerings around the city this week. Plenty of out-of-towners and locals will be performing...
Mobb Deep to Play Yugong Yishan on Saturday (Sep 12)
While we were no doubt upset about the cancellation of Afrika Bambaataa a couple weeks ago, as Beijingers we are very accustomed to these sorts of...
Check Out Soulspeak's New 'Ghost Echoes' EP
A new two-track EP from Beijing-based artist, Soulspeak, has just been released on Ran Music. The two songs represented on Ghost Echoes are a...