Review: The Lumineers in Shanghai
God bless the pre-sale, because if I had not already bought tickets for The Lumineers at Mao this week, I would have missed them. Tuesday was absolutely miserable and cold and snowy (!!) but I was [...]
JUE music + art
Review: Acoustic copulation
390 Panyu Lu hosted a stellar acoustic show Friday night that saw two local bands — Rainbow Danger Club and The Horde — pairing up and performing. First of all, if you’re in a band [...]
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, with serious Celtic rock [...]
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 Boucher, a young [...]
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 perform, and they also [...]
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 type but with a lot of [...]
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 Krell did. He sounds a lot [...]
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 + Art is happening again [...]
Smack Madness 