Music

For three decades, the GRAMMY®-nominated pianist/composer/ arranger David Benoit has reigned supreme as one the founding fathers of contemporary jazz. Born in Bakersfield, California, he grew up in Los Angeles and was bitten by the jazz bug after watching a Charlie Brown special on television and listening to the music of Vince Guaraldi in 1965. “I was already a fan of the comic strip,” he says, “but when I heard that jazz piano trio, that was the defining moment when I decided that I wanted to play like Vince Guaraldi.

Benoit received three GRAMMY® nominations in the categories of Best Contemporary Jazz Performance for “Every Step of the Way” (1989), Best Large Ensemble Performance for GRP All-Star Big Band (1996), and Best Instrumental Composition for “Dad’s Room,” the latter from the album Professional Dreamer (2000). In 2010, Benoit received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Smooth Jazz Awards, and he’s worked with an impressive potpourri of musicians including the Rippingtons, Emily Remler, Alphonse Mouzon, Dave Koz, Faith Hill, David Sanborn, CeCe Winans and Brian McKnight.

Benoit’s film scores include The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995), produced by Clint Eastwood, and The Christmas Tree, produced by Sally Field, which was voted Best Score of 1996 by Film Score Monthly. He has served as conductor with a wide range of symphonies including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Asia America Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. A long-time guest educator with the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, he received that organization’s Excellence in Music Award in 2001. His musical selections have been featured on The Weather Channel and his version of Vince Guaraldi’s “Cast Your Fate to the Wind” is included on compilation The Weather Channel Presents: Smooth Jazz 11 (2008). Benoit also currently hosts a morning radio show on KKJZ 88.1 FM in Long Beach, CA.

See him live at Blue Note on June 16th and 17th. For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/55266

The Devils & Libido are an alternative noise core two-piece band from Tokyo, and last year they put on one of the most explosive shows for the duration of 2017. Currently on tour in China, tonight the duo plays the School Bar showcase of their stop in Beijing! With bass and drums combining to form a sound that is new wave noise, hardcore, math noise, but at the same time pop inspired and melodic, The Devils and Libido are
not to be missed!

Opening are new noise core band playing their first show in Beijing Triple Griffon Live, as well as the industrial electronic project Re-Tros drummer Huang Jin!

Not a show to be missed!

Show write-up: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rktWLQhDLFjNLYnkf1UHbg
Breakdown of The Devils & Libido's appearance last year in Beijing by The Beijinger: http://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2018/05/23/japanese-bass-drum-duo-devils-and-libido-noise-rock

RMB 60

Line-up:
The Devils & Libido: https://the-devils-and-libido.tumblr.com/
Triple Griffon Live (野台三出戏)
Huang Jin (黄锦)

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

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Local promoters QingChun ZhiZao have booked your Saturday night entertainment for you and do not disappoint with an evening solid indie rock!

Accompanying you this evening are Britpop dudes with an dance vibe electro twist the Diagon Alley, artsy indie rockers Self-Portrait, and rounding out the line-up, rock n' roll foursome L-Gentlemen!

Join us!

RMB 100 // RMB 80 in advance (all tickets include one beer)
Advance tickets: https://wap.showstart.com/event/54267

Line-up:
Diagon Alley: https://site.douban.com/DiagonAlley/
Self-Portrait: https://site.douban.com/selfportrait/
L-Gentlemen: https://site.douban.com/gentlemen/

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

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School Bar has a stacked line-up of punk rock and indie tunes line-up for you this evening in celebration of Children's Day!

Power-pop dudes (with new permanent bassist XingXing from The Big Wave making his debut with the band!) The Sino Hearts are set to take the stage for the first time in months along with Britpop foursome extraordinaire Secret Club, hardcore heroes The Last Resort, and the all-star pop-punk ensemble finally getting time to play a show together, Stay Gold!

In honor of June 1's Children's Day holiday, all tickets are RMB 61!

Rock n' roll!

Line-up:
The Sino Hearts: https://site.douban.com/sinohearts/
Secret Club: https://site.douban.com/Dirtylittlesecret/
The Last Resort: https://site.douban.com/TLRBJHC/
Stay Gold: https://site.douban.com/goingmerry/

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

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Tonight is another installment of School Bar's "New Sounds of School" series!

Set to take the stage are indie Britpop rockers The Fastfood, pop punk dudes Show Hand, garbage rockers RockX, and rounding out the line-up, YouZhou FenLie (宇宙分裂)!

Join us and come check out some new bands!

RMB 40

Line-up:
The Fastfood: https://site.douban.com/sushichanpin/
Show Hand: https://site.douban.com/ShowHand/
RockX: https://site.douban.com/rockx/
YouZhou FenLie

School Bar May Calendar of Shows: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xn0JV_zCZGw_TTeVeD5r7A

School Bar: http://site.douban.com/school/

Follow School Bar on WeChat for all the latest show info, last minute updates/secret shows, interviews, and more! WeChat ID: schoollivebar

Loneliness, romance, bittersweet memories – are even more relevant in society than ever before. This generation is probably the loneliest generation, everyone’s got some kind of social anxiety in some form or another and we love nothing more than to romanticize it. This is especially prominent in Asia, in big modern cities like Singapore, Tokyo, and Beijing due to rapid pace of everyday life in a fast, ever changing environment. Everyone’s lonely and wants to connect with someone but everyone’s awkward and shy, so we write sad introspective pop songs drenched in warm reverb and distortion as a replacement for emotional warmth. The summer of nostalgia is here - so cozy up and soak up the rays cooked up by these rockers.

The evening’s guest of honor is Trip Fuel, from Hefei – a band of young and eager musicians who have been stirring up some noise since their formation in 2017. With moments of jangly math rock and post rock intrigue, and a hefty dose of shoegaze introversion, the band’s single '“Let's Catch The Sun Within 44 Beats And Fuck It’ was featured on the Nerd Noise II compilation at the end of 2017. Their much-anticipated EP is due out later this year.

Also on the bill – rising Beijing instrumental rockers She Never Sings Our Songs –who provide nurturing instrumental rock and roll with shades of math rock playfulness, dream pop pulp, and post rock crescendos that’s spirited, intricately assembled, and brimming with life. Guitars converse with one another, cymbals shimmer with exuberance, and a dialogue is formed between each of the members, volleying back and forth until blurring into mesmerizing blanket of sound

Another band that’s been turning heads for the past couple years has been Last Goodbye - the neo-psychedelic shoegaze outfit that has been keeping listeners enthralled with their glassy dream pop laced world and cathartic buildups. They have opened up for numerous international groups such as Flying Colours, Splashh and so on – and in many folks view are on the brink of breakthrough success.

Last but not least, Acid Accident, the instrumental rock trio, has quietly become the talk of the town over the past year, bringing together a range of influences to create an ambient, post-rock sound experience that’s volatile and impressionist.

Tickets: https://www.showstart.com/event/55110

Bands

• Trip Fuel (Hefei shoegaze/post rock/math rock)


• SNSOS (post rock/instrumental)


• Last Goodbye (shoegaze/neo psychedelic)


• Acid Accident (post rock/instrumental)
  

Trip Fuel (Hefei shoegaze/post rock/math rock)
Formed in the spring of 2017, Trip Fuel, made up of several music lovering college kids out of Wuhu in Anhui Province, is the latest band to wrangle the reverb-drenched sound that has captivated China. With shades of math rock twists and a hefty dose of post rock intrigue, the band whose single '“Let's Catch The Sun Within 44 Beats And Fuck It’ was featured on the Nerd Noise II compilation at the end of 2017. Since then, the band has opened for various bands including Colin Phils and Return to Delicate Time, and have been working on their debut EP.

SNSOS (post rock/instrumental)
Beijing outfit She Never Sings Our Songs (SNSOS) unveiled their debut self-titled LP at the end of the year and it’s a warm slice of post rock pie that’ll have genre fans clamoring for more. It’s a great display for the band’s sound – nurturing instrumental rock and roll with shades of math rock playfulness, dream pop pulp, and post rock crescendos that’s spirited, intricately assembled, and brimming with life. Guitars converse with one another, cymbals shimmer with exuberance, and a dialogue is formed between each of the members, volleying back and forth until blurring into mesmerizing blanket of sound.

Last Goodbye (shoegaze/neo psychedelic)
Sentimental atmosphere deep and melancholic, but still young, romantic and immature is the charm of the sound of this band. If you like postpunk, indie rock and constantly feel that nostalgic feeling of something you do not even know very well what it is, this band is perfect for you.

Acid Accident (post rock/instrumental)
Formed in 2016, Acid Accident is an instrumental trio bringing together a range of influences to create an ambient, post-rock sound experience.

活动详情 Event Info:

时间/Time: 2018年7月14日 21:00

门票/Ticket: 70(ADV)/90(DOOR)

地点/Venue: 黄昏黎明俱乐部 (DDC)

地址/ADD: 北京市东城区美术馆后街山老胡同14号

Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District

电话/Tel: 010-64078969

邮箱/Mail: DuskDawnClub@gmail.com

“The three-piece band has a wonderful addictive sound – one thats full of jagged edges, paranoid unease, and brooding psychedelic overtones. And while the band wears its influences on their sleeve their noise rock rowdiness and playful mischievous wordplay are all their own. Operating in the post punk dance hall world with such confident and tweaked relish, it sticks in you like a knife.” — Live Beijing Music

Line-up:

Vocal/Bass 主唱/贝斯：邱驰

Guitar 吉他：宋昂

Drums 鼓：李保宁

Lonely Leary formed in 2012 in a suburb of Jinan, where band members Qiu Chi, Song Ang, and Li Baoning met in college. The closest thing to a music scene that their corner of Shandong province had at the time was an overpopulation of cover bands obsessed with ‘80s Cantopop sensations Beyond (Qiu remembers there being more than 100 such bands). Drawing their influence from rougher, tougher stock, Lonely Leary created an early arsenal of covers from Beijing punk pioneers Underbaby and Joyside, before landing on Joy Division and artful Beijing post-punk unit PK14 as their cultural lodestones.

In 2014 the band moved to Beijing, the de facto capital of burnt out Chinese downer rock, and there they started in earnest. “Beijing is a high-speed city with [a] bad environment, and people here are restless,” guitarist Song Ang told an interviewer a few years back. “The violent sound of our music has a close connection with the situation.”

Nevertheless, after a few years spent working out the kinks on-stage at now defunct Beijing club XP, Lonely Leary has singularly channeled Beijing’s bad vibes into a trademark dynamic, blending fast drums, muddy bass and rough guitar noise into a tense, menacing pummel. These days they can be found in the shadows of their idols, working with PK14 vocalist Yang Haisong, who produced their forthcoming debut LP, and Joyside bassist Liu Hao, who presides over the live music venue School Bar, where they’re currently most at home in Beijing. Dressed in black, faces slack, Lonely Leary is now a greased machine, and hold the stage with a nervous, mechanical intensity that none of their current peers can quite match.

Flashy as a buzzsaw under a naked bulb, noise-sick Beijing post-punk trio Lonely Leary’s debut album Through the Park, Almost There rips through your comfort zone with a breezy unease. Mechanical, maniacal drums and robotic bass lines propel them forward, but they’re all burning flesh, aimless angst coursing through down-and-out anthems like “Stay Ugly.” Song Ang’s guitar cuts surgically, hypnotically on tracks such as mid-album highlight “Silver City (银色城市),” while vocalist Qiu Chi barks his dissatisfaction throughout, most directly and despondently on “Prayers for Preparation,” the sickly ritual album closer. These songs have been through the gauntlet, spent years in trial on Beijing’s dirtiest live house stages, and emerge now clear enough to hear, opaque enough to feel on the gut level of vague nausea. Through the Park, Almost There doesn’t quite arrive, but it launches one of Beijing’s best current bands, Sisyphus-style, onto the next leg of their twisted journey to the top of the hill.

Through the Park, Almost There was produced by Yang Haisong, and will be released on CD and vinyl by Maybe Mars Records on April 27, 2018.

Recommended for fans of: Joy Division, P.K.14, Sleaford Mods, Savages

Line-up：

Lead singer/guitar: Dog Hair
Bass: Cao Cao
Electric Guitar: Dai Shuai
Drummer: Ma Yi

‘‘I just want to stay out and go wandering casually.

Dog hair, born in 1963, Chinese singer

Taiwanese people who grew up in Taiwan

一场演出 一次聚会

活动详情 Event Info:

时间/Time: 2018年6月5日 21:00

门票/Ticket: 50(ADV)/60(DOOR)

地点/Venue: 黄昏黎明俱乐部 (DDC)

地址/ADD: 北京市东城区美术馆后街山老胡同14号

Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District

电话/Tel: 010-64078969

邮箱/Mail: DuskDawnClub@gmail.com

Line-up:

Piano: James Byron Stewardson

Guitar: Alexei Tsiganov

Vocal: Emma

Bass: ZHANG KE

Dram: Xiao Dou

Alexei Tsiganov

Maxim Lubarsky & Alexei Tsiganov Quintet "Waking Up from a Dream"

Alexei Tsiganov is a composer, pianist, vibraphonist and educator.

At the age of seventeen Tsiganov began playing at St. Petersburg Jazz Philharmonic Hall, the largest jazz club in the Soviet Union, first as a member of the David Goloschokin Group (host band), and later with his own program. In 1989, he won the St. Petersburg Competition of Young Jazz Performers, and in 1990 was among winners of the 1st All-Russian Jazz Music Competition in Rostov-on-Don. These accomplishments had brought him wide recognition in Russia, and he began regular appearances in the national radio and TV programs. In 1991, Tsiganov came to the United States to continue his career in the motherland of jazz.

He has played and recorded with: Claudio Roditi, Antonio Sanchez, Chico Freeman, Esperanza Spalding, Bobby Watson, Victor Lewis, Bob Moses, Jerry Bergonzi, Gene Jackson, Alex Sipiagin, Boris Kozlov, Norman Hedman, Willie Martinez, Bevan Manson, Tony Malaby, George Garzone, John Lockwood, Bob Gullottii, Samba de Três, Yoron Israel, George Schuller, Ed Schuller, Avery Sharp, Donny McCaslin, Greg Osby and others. He has appeared with his group on WERS-Boston radio station and in Eric In the Evening program on WGBH-Boston, performing original music and standards.

He studied with Gary Burton at Berklee College of Music, and at the New England Conservatory of Music with Charlie Banacos and George Russell. In these past years, Tsiganov has performed solo and with his group in and around Greater New England, New York City at renown clubs such as Jazz Standard, Sweet Rhythm, American Museum of Natural History (broadcasted by WBGO Jazz 88.3), Regattabar, Topeka Jazz Festival, d'Ouro Jazz Festival (Portugal), Petropavlovsky Jazz Festival, (St. Petersburg, Russia), Chapada Jazz Festival (Mato Grosso, Brazil), Jazz nos Fundos (São Paulo, Brazil) among others and has toured Jazz clubs abroad throughout the United States, Europe, South America and Asia.

Jamie Stewardson

Jamie Stewardson is a guitarist and composer who teaches at both the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory of Music. Stewardson has performed and recorded albums with many of the world's leading jazz artists, including George Russell, Bob Moses, Oscar Stagnaro, Tony Malaby, Jerry Bergonzi . He also worked with Pop, R 'n B musicians like O Jays, The Drifters, The Temptations, Martha Reeves.

Mr. Stewardson has performed and recorded music works with a number of jazz artists including George Russell, John Herbert Noah Preminger. As a producer, he recorded two albums, "you are not far", and "Jhaptal", with Tony Malaby, John Herbert and George alexei Tsiganov schule.

Emma

ZHANG KE

Xiao Dou

活动详情 Event Info:

时间/Time: 2018年6月17日 21:00

门票/Ticket:50(ADV)/60(DOOR)

地点/Venue: 黄昏黎明俱乐部 (DDC)

地址/ADD: 北京市东城区美术馆后街山老胡同14号

Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District

电话/Tel: 010-64078969

邮箱/Mail: DuskDawnClub@gmail.com

Bands:

HUGH REED & THE ELECTRIC SHADOWS (Indie, Rock)

The Playcat (Shoegaze, Noisy-pop)

就知道你是这样的女孩 (Pop punk)

HUGH REED & THE ELECTRIC SHADOWS(Indie, Rock)

Hugh Reed is now based in Beijing, he's a Scotsman who has had a long musical career. His first single Six to Wan (621) was used by BBC Radio 1 as a theme tune for a series of programmes on Scottish Rock, in the early 1990s.

Following local TV appearances his band The Velvet Underpants’ were invited by Deborah Harry of the band ‘Blondie’ to support her on 11 dates throughout Britain in the winter of 1993. This culminated in Hugh and Debs doing a live duet of Waiting for the Man, which can be watched on youku. Deborah also faxed Lou to tell him about Hugh.

Hugh was then signed to Edinburgh’s Eclectic label. The Debut Album Take a Walk on the Clydeside was released receiving a lot of radio play not just in UK but also throughout, Europe, America and Canada.

The Playcat (Shoegaze, Noisy-pop)

The Playcat - SLUMS

就知道你是这样的女孩 (Pop punk)

Four-piece girl pop punk band that’s slowly been making some noise on the Gulou and university circuit - the ladies have all the bad habits of contemporary girls: laziness, inferiority, sensitivity, love fantasy, nervousness. Drowsy all day, just want men and love.