A Beijing-based music and gig review blog

Just because D-22 has closed shop doesn’t mean the folks at Maybe Mars haven’t been hard at work, which the release of these two albums attests to. Mr. Grace­less’ album “The Tree Ever Green” hits stands (or… the inter­net, more likely) today, Feb 17, though they’re cur­rently tour­ing around the coun­try and won’t hit the cap­i­tal again until early April. They still sound like Blur, of course, but they’re a reli­able band, and hav­ing their tracks to spin when­ever I want is def­i­nitely going to be fun. Bird­strik­ing, on the other hand, are hav­ing a low-key release, with­out any press or promo sur­round­ing it because of its “polit­i­cal sen­si­tiv­ity”. I haven’t lis­tened to it yet myself, but you can pick it up on Taobao or at indie music stores around Gulou like Indie Music on Jiugu­lou Dajie.