Blog Tag - Yugong Yishan

No Encore: Yugong Yishan Officially Closes After 11 Years
Submitted on Feb 22, 2019
After months of speculation, the owners of Yugong Yishan have made it official: they’ll no longer host concerts at their 11-year-old Zhangzizhong Lu...
DP:Throwback Thursday: The Golden Days of Yugong Yishan
Submitted on Dec 27, 2018
Throwback Thursday takes a look back into Beijing's past, using our eleven-year-strong blog archives to glance at the weird and wonderful of...
Q&A with Rising Local Shoegazers Wondersea Ahead of Aug 4 Yugong Yishan Gig
Submitted on Oct 10, 2018
Plenty of local bands count Western post-rock and shoegaze legends among their biggest influences, but Wonder Sea (playing International Cassette...
Break Out Your Medieval Armour With the Electro Punk Twins From The Garden
Submitted on Sep 11, 2018
What screams “punk” more than creating music in the framework of a made-up genre? Orange County, California twins Wyatt and Fletcher Shears of The...
Japanese Alt-Rockers D.A.N. Talk Opening for James Blake, Collab with Floating Points Ahead of Sep 7 Yugong Yishan Gig
Submitted on Sep 05, 2018
[UPDATE Sep 7, 11am] The venue for the Sep 7 D.A.N. show has been changed to Yue Space. Although plenty of bands play with enough passion and prowess...
Duck Fight Goose Return to the Capital With a Cocktail party Reboot of 'CLVB ZVKVNFT'
Submitted on Jul 05, 2018
D-Force Records isn't messing around. The label, founded in 2015 by one of China’s pioneering musical online platforms, Douban, has been making a...
Get Out of Your Rut With Alt-Folk Guru Devendra Banhart Ahead of His Jun 9 Yugong Yishan Gig
Submitted on Jun 08, 2018
Feeling a little down? Fear not, because indie folk star and feel-good guru Devendra Banhart has plenty of sunny vibes and time-honored wisdom to...
Noise Pollution: METZ at Yue Space, 69 Cafe (Kinda) Returns, Nancy Jenkinson Brown Debuts New Band
Submitted on May 24, 2018
Lots of new venues popping up this week — seems everyone and their mother is trying to get in on the live music racket. And why not? Wudaokou needs...
Mouse on the Keys Buck Against Post-Rock Label Ahead of Yugong Yishan Festival Slot, Apr 21
Submitted on Apr 20, 2018
Even though Tokyo instrumental rockers Mouse on the Keys have been hailed as one of Japan's top post-rock acts, frontman Akira Kawasaki rejects that...
Breaking: Music Buffs Dismayed After Majority of Sound of the Xity Gets Scrapped
Submitted on Apr 13, 2018
Bad news for Beijing music buffs: the sprawling, ambitious Sound of the Xity has been decimated this weekend. Instead of the slated seven shows over...
Noise Pollution: Sound of the Xity, Cold Neo Showcase, Alpine Decline Returns
Submitted on Apr 13, 2018
[UPDATED: Friday Apr 13, 8pm] Alpine Decline's gig, despite being unrelated to Sound of the Xity, has moved to Fruity Space, as reverberations of...
"Johnny Marr Makes a Great Cup of Tea": Q&A With The Cribs Ahead of Their May 13 Gig
Submitted on Apr 09, 2018
They're Brits, they're brothers, and they play rock and roll, but that's just about where the comparison to a certain other set of famous UK rock...
Tortoise and The Notwist Among Acts Slated For First Ever Yugong Yishan Outdoor Festival at New Great Wall Valley, Apr 21-22
Submitted on Mar 28, 2018
Even though venerable livehouse Yugong Yishan is still amid a hiatus – having not hosted a gig for the entirety of 2018 after closing its doors with...
Q&A With The Chameleons Frontman Mark Burgess Ahead of the Post-Punk Legends' Jan 7 Yugong Yishan Gig
Submitted on Jan 01, 2018
Though The Chameleons were poised to break big in their early 80's heyday, the British post-punk troupe never attained the notoriety of other...
Rocking Against the Phonies: Rising Nanjing Band Sixi Talk Keeping It Real Ahead of Dec 15 Yugong Yishan Gig
Submitted on Dec 13, 2017
Seeing as Sixi is fronted by the sizzlingly charismatic vocalist and synth player Xiao Xin, and rounded out by flaring guitar riffs of Wang Laoji and...