Review: How to Dress Well – Tom Krell
How to Dress Well — the stage name for Chicago based musician Tom Krell — performed at 390 Panyu lu last night. I was actually surprised how much I liked what [...]
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Is Frank Ocean moving to Shanghai?
The New York Times currently has a great interview/profile of Frank Ocean. Ocean, I think, is a really interesting artist right now–not because of all the hoopla [...]
Laters, Inferno (updated)
Inferno, Shanghai’s best (but maybe also only) metal bar is shutting down. I think it’s only been open, oh, more than a year or so. I was reading about it over on [...]
Blood Pours Out
The Horde wasn’t the only band working this weekend. Death to Giants also released their first full-length album at Yuyintang on Saturday. It’s called Blood Pours [...]
Review: Consider Yourselves Conquered
It was a busy weekend for Shanghai music. On Friday I went out to see The Horde at 390 Live for the release of their EP Consider Yourselves Conquered. I love these guys and [...]
The best of 2012
You know how at the end of every year all those top ten lists come out about the best albums? I hate those, because they make me feel like I know nothing about music (I’m [...]
JUE Music + Art 2013
Spring festival is FINALLY over and if I never hear another firecracker for the rest of my life I reckon that’ll be about right. Or at least until next year. JUE Music [...]
“Anyone Can Learn to Count in Chinese” Death to Giants
Death to Giants is a Shanghai-based experimental noise/death pop duo. Nichols on bass and Ivan on drums. I think that they sort of started just playing around here and there, [...]
The Backstreet Boys
Why yes, hell hath frozen over and I am writing about the Backstreet Boys. That’s because the Backstreet Boys are totally playing in Shanghai on December 28th and [...]
DJ Example is “sick”
DJ Example has canceled his gig this Friday at Club G+, because he’s “sick.” Not that I don’t believe he’s “sick.” I’m sure [...]
Duck Fight Goose, Boys Climbing Ropes, This is Not the End
The title to the post actually sounds like a really awesome day out at the park somewhere, like, “I saw a duck fight a goose! Then some boys climbing ropes! And a kid [...]
Rainbow Danger Club – Into The Cellar
Rainbow Danger Club is a band here in Shanghai. They’ve been around a couple of years now and have just released a new EP called Into the Cellar. I’ve written [...]
Upcoming Events: DJ Example & DJ Wire
DJ Example‘s going to be in Shanghai on December 14th and I’m kinda psyched. I like the big party/dance/club music that he does. A big crowd-pleaser kind of [...]
Interview – King Creosote and The Fence Collective
A couple of weeks ago the Fence Collective came through Shanghai as part this sort of culture-ish thing with UK Now and Split Works and maybe also the cultural people over at [...]
Upcoming Events: La Jiang You, Tiga at Arkham, YYs, Shelter’s anniversary!
Holy shit, there’s a lot going on on Saturday. There’s a new Shanghai La Jiang You party on over at Dada and I love these parties–the music is usually like [...]
Upcoming Events: BooshKaBaash 2012
One of the reasons Shanghai music is growing and (maybe someday?) thriving is because of some home-grown music festivals like BooshkaBaash. This is multi-event, [...]
Interview – Dan Shapiro of The Fever Machine
Smart Shanghai has a fantastic interview up this week with Dan Shapiro. Shapiro plays in the Shanghai band The Fever Machine, though he’s been around the city a while [...]
Rocksgiving 2012
Last Friday was the annual Rocksgiving concert held again at Yuyintang, which has turned into a pretty cool charity event with BEAN Shanghai. This is the third time [...]
Psychic Ills, Chui Wan, Duck Fight Goose
Last night Psychic Ills from New York were playing at Yuyintang, so I figured it was worth going even though it was Wednesday, cold and pissing rain. Glad I did, though. I [...]
Friend or Foe and What Have You Done With My Claw
390 Panyu Lu is a newish live house/gay bar in Shanghai. The performance area is quite small, but the sound is good and you can get up close and personal with everyone. I [...]
Review: The Airplane Boys, Kikuyu
Figured Lune would be a good place last night, because I kinda wanted to see the Airplane Boys from Toronto. Because when I think hip hop, I think Toronto. Ah, that’s [...]
Skrillex in Shanghai
It’s been confirmed finally that Skrillex will indeed be playing in Shanghai, at Club G+ on Nov 10th. And tickets are…680 rmb. Yeah. 680 rmb. That’s, [...]
Review: Capitan Tifus
This slightly crazy, extremely fun band called Capitan Tifus came through Shanghai a couple of nights ago. They’re from Argentina and have a lot of members (nine? I [...]
Review: James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem
James Murphy (producer, musician, DJ, record exec, man about town) of LCD Soundsystem is touring China and Japan and played at O’Malley’s Friday night. Super [...]
Interview – Friendly Fires
Sometimes you don’t need music that changes your life, you just need something that makes you feel good. Friendly Fires is that. Not that Friendly Fires can’t be [...]
Interview – Glasvegas
Glasvegas is a band from Glasgow who creates this lovely, big, wall-of-sound rock thing. Lots of big guitar noise with a floor tom and some do-woppyish rhythms and other cool [...]
Smack Madness 