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The best tribute act ever

April 6, 2014 // 0 Comments

I am not one to diss cover bands and tribute acts. In fact, I love them. For real. It’s mostly because I like live music, and I like hearing music I like played live. Am I ever going to see [...]

Review: Acoustic copulation

May 12, 2013 // 5 Comments

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: Wooozy Session #10 (updated)

March 17, 2013 // 1 Comment

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: Consider Yourselves Conquered

March 5, 2013 // 0 Comments

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 what they’re doing. [...]

Interview – King Creosote and The Fence Collective

December 3, 2012 // 0 Comments

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 the British Council. So [...]

Review: Capitan Tifus

October 14, 2012 // 0 Comments

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 think), a lot of [...]