Posts Tagged ‘Beijing’
Interview with Exit A
Exit A are an up-and-coming Beijing band who participated in a chat with Hajar recently. Check it out.
What We Learned From Finland
“What We Learned From…” will be a new feature promoting bands who have come to Shanghai in association with the Expo. Now that all of our great venues are intact and countries are bringing their musical talent here to share, we thought it appropriate to document that process, week by week, country by country. This week we were invaded by Finland.
Getting Into the RoOtine
Attractive RoOtine, a multilingual “electrosteady” duo, used to be based in Shanghai, but now they have defected to Beijing, which is where Hajar tracked them down for an interview.
EXITA at YugongYishan on April 22nd
Last April 22nd ExitA played at Beijing’s YugongYishan and Betti Na was there shooting her first session for Layabozi. You can listen and download their music and find more about ExitA on their Douban Page.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
So Rock in China was all like, “I’ma getchoo, sucka!” and Sound Kapital was like, “Hold me back!” The “May Debate” was going down while we were in transition mode, but I had this written and thought the situation deserved to be covered on Layabozi, even though we were late to the melee.
Five Years of Beijing’s RandomK(e)
RandomK(e) from Beijing is celebrating their fifth anniversary this Saturday at 2Kolegas. M.E. Seeley here expounds on why we should listen to RamdomK(e), if you still haven’t done it. And, if you are in Beijing, then we’re jealous for that gig.
A Beijing Rock Festival Gets the Blues
The Modern Sky Festival that happened just a few days ago had some complications. In the aftermath of the events Layabozi’s correspondent in Beijing reports about the rock, the blues, the heroes, and the lunatic.
“Rock Under the Red Flag”, VBS.TV Short Film
VBS.tv streamed last year this short documentary about Birthday Boys touring illegally around China during 2007. The series, titled “Rock under the Red Flag” , consisted of 6 short videos documenting the band’s trip from Beijing to Wuhan, passing by Shanghai, Nanjing and Changsha.
