JUST DEMOS AND IDEAS. To find my finished music, go to www.sxipshirey.com

>>North American tour starts 5/30  
>>>Self-titled debut out on A Recordings 6/2

BIRDSTRIKING entered the last great chapter into legendary BEIJING underground venue D-22’s book of lore. The band formed after college students He Fan and Wang Xinjiu met at a show by their favorite band, Carsick Cars, and thought — with timeless youthful bravado — “I could do this.” He Fan picked up the guitar and Xinjiu got behind the drum kit; the duo auditioned a string of bassists, finally settling on Zhou Nairen as the third leg of the juggernaut.

D-22, a rock’n’roll dive rooted in Beijing’s Wudaokou university district, had by Spring 2009 launched the careers of many bands that are today household names among global underground rock cognoscenti: Carsick Cars, White, Hedgehog, Queen Sea Big Shark. Birdstriking started there, at the club’s anything-goes, open-stage College Night. They quickly caught the eyes and ears of the very bands that inspired them to start, and were soon playing weekend opening slots ahead of their idols. 

Within two years, Birdstriking had inked a deal with Beijing’s top indie label, Maybe Mars, and in February 2012 — just one month after D-22 closed its doors for good — released their self-titled debut to critical praise both within China and abroad. 

Though Birdstriking’s debut LP received limited distribution in China due to its socially critical lyrics, it gained the band a diehard following within their local underground. The record’s inimitable mix of tuneful hooks, calculated psych-noise meltdowns, precision rhythmic structure, and brash lyrical frankness quickly cemented them as the frontrunner of a new generation of young Beijing rockers with an equal mix of heart, spit, and vision. 

It also carried their name abroad, where they were identified as kindred spirits by veteran California psych rock troupe Brian Jonestown Massacre. BJM gave Birdstriking crucial international exposure when they took them along as support band for a 2014 UK tour. 

In 2015, after playing major Hong Kong music festival Clockenflapand adding fellow Beijing scene veteran Wen Yuzhen on second guitar, Birdstriking has set their sight even more firmly on international expansion. They’ll embark on their first American tour in late Spring, coinciding with the official international release of their album on June 2, 2015, on A Recordings. 

Traveling a road first paved by Carsick Cars and their ilk, Birdstriking brings the new sound of Young China to American ears for the first time. 

Solo experimental music-project based in the Kensington neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY by the owner/creator of Fabrica Records. 

Tony Vázquez came to New York City at the age of one from his hometown Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero, located in the heart of the mountainous range of the Sierra Madre del Sur in México. He studied fine arts at LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts, where he was exposed to all art forms. Tony now sings and plays music with his guitar that is inspired by the sounds of classical music, baroque, rock n roll, flamenco, jazz and other genres, but he is currently focusing on the traditional music of his country México.

Tony graduated from the City College of New York with a bachelors in electrical engineering, but he never stopped expressing his feelings and ideas through his artistic talents in art and music. He bought his first guitar in Spain and while traveling around México, Tony learned and performed the music that most inspired him from composers like Chucho Monge, Jose Alfredo Jimenez, Armando Manzanero, among others.

Tony keeps exploring the music from México and performs solo with his guitar to different audiences around New York and México.

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