Music

Coban indie artist Axia plays a variety of musical instruments, including the bamboo flute, which he started learning in 1992. The former Haya band guitarist and Central Minority Orchestra member has been part of other bands, recorded three albums, and undertaken three tours. He now appears in support of his personal EP The Lonely Can Only See Themselves, finally doing his own thing.

For more information or tickets to his show, visit: http://www.showstart.com/event/30712

Singer and guitarist Lao Zhai of Loop Fighter appears at Rockland, Beijing’s most intimate rock venue, to rock out. His other project World Guide is on indefinite hiatus, and he’s using Loop Fighter to explore new, experimental realms of improvisational rock music.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: http://www.showstart.com/event/34048

Hong Kong born singer Yoyo Cenning moved to Toronto to study. In 2010, she recorded her debut album, The End of the World and then moved to Taiwan to make it on her own. Now a huge success who’s made album sale records in Hong Kong, she appears at Blue Note to serenade you.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: http://www.showstart.com/event/32535

Takeshi Sakamoto studied jazz in New York at Brooklyn Music Conservatory and City College of New York. He’s worked with jazz legends including Jerome Harris and Sonny Rollins, and his performances include pop, rock, funk, rhythm and blues and metal as well as jazz. In Beijing he’s joined by Taiwanese jazz pianist Yeh Cheng Ting, Lee on guitar, Nathaniel Gao on sax and Dan Callaghan on bass.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: http://www.showstart.com/event/33863

The Beijing Beatles take the stage at Barn in Lido for a “Get Back to Beijing” show. Check out Beijing’s foremost Beatles cover band on September 2nd. The group is four expats who recreate the sounds of the Beatles in authentic outfits, with authentic equipment. Join John, George, Paul and Gringo for a fun evening of music.

For more information, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/QYrgaY3VJHmPFqj_0UXk9w

Philco Fiction has a unique way of catching and transforming everyday moments into pop music that is just really hard to resist. Two years after the release of their breakthrough album Take It Personal, Oslo-based duo Philco Fiction has returned with their triumphant sophomore full-length Talk/Brag.

Location - 西直门交大东路66号<钻河中心>2号楼一楼东侧102 物美往里50米

A social club may be a group of people or the place where they meet, generally formed around a common interest, occupation, or activity.

This Saturday, we’re hosting our first social gathering at Zarah, a beautifully renovated old Beijing style courtyard house, to kick start a series of parties being organised over the coming months.

On September 8th, we’ll be doing our first party party in the capital and bringing two of our all-time favourites, JD Twitch and JG Wilkes (aka Optimo) over from Glasgow to play at Dada Beijing. The 算盘 (suànpán) social is the first chance for us to show what we're about and give a taste of some of the sounds you can expect from some of our future parties, tailored perfectly for a Saturday afternoon-evening in Zarah.

We’ll be exploring the more ‘eclectic’ side of our musical tastes and inviting some friends along to do the same. Some familiar faces from the Beijing bar and club scene will be joining residents Tanner and Juhstynn, and we’ll be asking them to dig a bit deeper and play some of the stuff they might not usually get a chance to play. Our guest selectors are Boflex, Migas Music Man and Dim Sum Disco extraordinaire, PopCity Inc.’s finest DJ Watermelon, and Chloe from the effervescent Club Paradise crew.

There will also be a barbeque fired up with plenty of meat and vegetarian options available, and some very nice drinks offers courtesy of Zarah to keep you ‘hydrated’ through the day.

What You’ll See

An Open Rehearsal is a fascinating opportunity to watch the band Blood Feast at work, and see how a piece of music is shaped and polished by the conductor and the musicians.

What Else

Before the rehearsal begins, the lead guitar player, as a professional guitar tutor himself, will give some lectures about guitar and ukelele for people who are interested in.

The guitar player, Ottomanni, who majored in guitar playing in Finland and used lead his former band tour in different countries for the past ten years, will show you some unique opinions on the mechanism and essential technic of guitar learning.

For those who might be hesitated learning some music instruments for a while, here is your chance. No worries, come an hour earlier and it is free.

When: Aug 26th , 8:00 pm

Where: 80 Music, No. 80 Zhaodengyu Rd., Xicheng District, Beijing

This is the 3rd concert hosted at Yichang Café, nested in a beautiful siheyuan in Neiwubujie, near Dongsi.

Yuan Yuan will be bringing her dreamy, experimental pop music to our cosy little venue. If you want an intimate experience in a beautiful setting to start your Saturday evening, look no further. Yuan Yuan will be accompanied by Long Long, a beatboxer who's started to make a name for himself in these parts, and will make you rethink all assumptions you might have had about beatboxing.

Some soft drinks are included with the ticket, and a large range of drinks, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic are available.

Thirty-six-year-old Los Angelino saxophonist Kamasi Washington made a name for himself by playing on Kendrick Lamar's landmark 2015 hip-hop album To Pimp a Butterfly, before releasing a sprawling, critically acclaimed triple album called The Epic that same year. The New York Times describes him as one of today's few jazz musicians to play concert halls, rather than smaller clubs, before adding that attendees at his gigs "do something that people at jazz concerts seldom do anymore: They dance."

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