Death to Shanghai (Updated)
If you’re someone who lives abroad for a significant amount of time (interns and study abroads don’t count, dude), every year you have to say goodbye to people. People show up with really [...]
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Cool shows I’m not gonna see
Sometimes I just have to get the hell out of Shanghai for a while. Because…Shanghai. Come on, man. Shanghai! And then even though it’s awesome when I’m not in Shanghai sometimes I [...]
Delicious Shanghai swine water
Yeah, Shanghai’s got a dead-pigs-in-water problem. What of it? People are so picky these days about what’s floating down their rivers. Anyway, it’s produced at least one awesome EP [...]
Review: Do Japandroids dream of electric sheep?
The big show of the weekend was obviously Japandroids, put on and well-promoted by Split Works. HIMDONG opened the show. It’s been a few months since I’ve seen him play, and he’s [...]
Guard Your Loins – Japandroids coming to town
I’m psyched about this weekend’s Japandroids show at Yuyingtang. I spent, like, an hour (or a good five minutes) trying to think up clever android-esque puns for the title of this [...]
Review: A ripper of a show from YYT
The “Goodbye Shanghai” show at Yuyintang was a good one: an all-day love affair with Shanghai music and the people who make it (and those who will be missed). There were just too many [...]
Every band in Shanghai, ever
Hey, have you never seen a Shanghai band? First of all, shame. Second of all, you can easily make up for it this weekend by seeing every band in Shanghai. Yes. Every band in Shanghai. First up is the [...]
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 Out. Cause they’re [...]
“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, probably more as a fun [...]
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 reckon some people [...]
Smack Madness 