Music

Join the foremost gay choir in the USA, the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, under the direction of trailblazing artistic director Bob Mensel, for a fun performance in partnership with the Beijing Queer Chorus. The programme will include American and Chinese traditional and folk songs.

For more information or for tickets, visit: https://ac.lingxi360.com/activity/capyw3m54kreo867m8m3692vnxglzq71?utm_bccid=ca4lkpryz7m38qd93eqlyd9vxe2n15wo

For eight years, pangbianr has represented the underground music scene in Beijing (and beyond) with finesse and respect. The platform and its de facto leader Josh Feola are heading to Shanghai for good and they’re throwing a farewell party at fRUITYSPACE – expect live sets from Bye Bye Thanks for the Fish (SUBS avant-garde folk project), Simon Frank (of Hot & Cold), and producer Menghan. Plus, wicked DJ sets from Nevin Domer, Krish Raghav, and more. It’s gonna be emotional and a heck ton of fun. FREE 

As a solo artist, Kamau mixes jazz chords, soul rhythm, slide guitar, blues riffs and percussive styles with lyrics that have been called pop but personal and full of soul. You may have heard him rip the blues with Great Buffalo Blues or shred chords with his rock band D. Cortisol, but his solo work is a lush and carefully woven narrative of music, lyrics and stories that together are quite an experience, a musical road trip not to be missed.

TYZ is a South African singer-songwriter, musician and producer based in Beijing, China. He started writing lyrics in primary school to hip hop songs on the radio. After high school he joined the metal band Killing The Undead as a vocalist. He has been a part of many music projects across many genres from Electronic and Hip Hop to Rock and Pop.

TYZ currently plays solo as a singer-songwriter as well as being the guitarist and vocalist for tydiknots and MUTI, bassist and backup Vocalist for Bang Bang Mary and Shitty Sister and is also an electronic music producer. See them for free on Saturday.

For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/61856

WHAI - the founder of Chinese psychedelic rock music, was officially formed on October 24th 2012 by 4 artists of different ethnic minority backgrounds, devoting in developing Chinese original music. Throughout the years, WHAI has been growing into a progressive rock band. They are well known and recognized for their philosophical lyrics, experimental music, Avant garde styled CD cover designs and great live show performance. Starting at the beginning of this decade, under Zhang Wei’s leadership, WHAI has gained success in promoting Chinese psychedelic rock as well as introducing noise music into mainstream music scene.

For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/61526

Psychedelic electronic group Spices appears at Yue Space on September 7th as part of their cross-China tour in support of their new album. With members from the US and China, they describe their music as an electrical storm whispering through Peach Blossom Island.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/l3ME4w7t_BEEo2Qc3C4UMw

Part 2 is an female indie artist from Hangzhou. After participating in multiple competitions and college bands, she struck out on her own, taking the indie road and mixing ideas about life, the universe, gender and love in her music. See her at Yue Space on September 2nd.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YFAJtaXdnaEOqaFhpQhG9w

Explore the simple side of music this summer. Join pianist Ma Wei, indie folk rocker Alip, Cantonese singer-songwriter He Wei and sound artist Cao Cao at Yue Space on August 31st for an exploration of modern Chinese folk.

For more information or to buy tickets, visit: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/DdOcRhQp3KGFF4gNksuNuw

Head to Yugong Yishan for a special Salute the Classics concert, featuring metal acts like Outspoken, Fire Monkey, Hind Brain, Ephemerality, Rex and Empty Eyes playing classic works by artists like Nirvana, Slipknot, Metallica, Ramstein, Marilyn Manson and Rage Against the Machine.

For more information or for tickets, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/60132

The Canzilians are everything you expect from a two-man acoustic band: groove!

With a touch of R&B on Rod's vocals and a hell lot of funky beat on Sonny's cajon, the band brings their unique music to the lands of China. The Canzilian's music is a blend of Canadian tones and Brazilian rhythms combined with pop covers turned into peculiar versions, as well as their original tracks that vivify this phenomenal cultural mix.

For more information, visit: https://www.showstart.com/event/60583

Ska (/skɑː/; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae .Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. It is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off-beat. Ska developed in Jamaica in the 1960s when Prince Buster, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, and Duke Reid formed sound systems to play American rhythm and blues and then began recording their own songs. In the early 1960s, ska was the dominant music genre of Jamaica and was popular with British mods. Later it became popular with many skinheads.

The bands:

EARLY BUS was formed in 2007 in Beijing by four young punks. As time went on the band has developed deep insights of Jamaican music, the boys now have more focus on making more authentic and original Jamaican tunes and spirits out from the messages in their music, genres fused with Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. Their approach to music is tuning up for the beauty of the world we are living, singing freedom and passion through the legendary upbeats, “just like how much the sun, air and water are essential for living things, peace, love and understanding are so vital to our life” the band says the pump of heart in their music.

The Flip Side are Beijing’s only live disco band. Bring your boogie shoes and come prepared to freak out, shake your booty, get jiggy with it and celebrate good times.

Disco is a music genre and subculture that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene. It reached peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Disco started as a mélange of music from venues popular with African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Italian Americans, LGBT people (especially African-American and white gay men), and psychedelic hippies in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Disco can be seen as a reaction to both the dominance of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Several dance styles were also developed during this time, including the Bump and the Hustle.

SKA！SKA ！ SKA ！
DISCO！DISCO！DISCO！

DANCE ! DANCE ! DANCE !

Early Bus + The Flip Side

[Ska & Disco]

Time时间：2018.8.25 @ 21:30

Tickets门票：Free Before 21:00, 50RMB after 21:00

Address地址：Caravan 44 guanghua lu 驼队餐吧-北京市朝阳区光华路44号