Review: Made in Shanghai, except for all the balls on stage
I’ll get to the balls in just a moment. Last night was a “Made in Shanghai” night at Yuyintang, meaning they had four Shanghai bands on, three of which [...]
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Review: Frank Turner makes us all sit on the floor and we still like him
Grimes was probably the big booking of the JUE Festival, but there was no one I was more excited to see than Frank Turner. Frank Turner is an English folk and punk musician, [...]
Review: Grimes, fairly decent
The musician Grimes played Mao on Wednesday night. It was absolutely packed as she was the big booking of this year’s JUE Festival. Grimes is the stage name of Claire [...]
Review: Wooozy Session #10 (updated)
The Wooozy Sessions is a concert series from Wooozy.cn with the cooperation of Shanghai’s independent livehouses. They promote local bands and give them a platform to [...]
Review: Jeff Lang
Australian musician Jeff Lang played last night at Yuyintang as part of the JUE Music + Art Festival. This guy is pretty stellar. He’s a very folksy singer/songwriter [...]
The Led Zeppelin reunion
I am a fairly massive Led Zeppelin fan. In fact, the title of this site comes from a somewhat mediocre Led Zeppelin song, but come on — they can’t all be winners [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Smack Madness 