What to do this weekend: Halloweeeen
Our weekly suggestions of Austin- and Texas-centric music, by no means exhaustive or complete. For full listings visit http://do512.com/. Mind where you step in the vomit-filled gutters downtown this [...]
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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 [...]
Download NOW — We Are Shanghai Vol. III
Are you a Lazy Person, like me? Don’t worry, our very valid medical condition (just like Restless Legs Syndrome!) will one day be accepted and we will no longer have to be ashamed and hide from [...]
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 [...]
Review: Blah blah blah, More Rainbow Danger Club stuff
I go on and on about Rainbow Danger Club, but that will soon be coming to an end. They released their second (and last) LP Saturday night at Yuyintang. Best show I’ve seen of theirs yet. The [...]
Shanghai’s best bands — see ’em while you can
I don’t usually write about upcoming events, because I am a lazy person and don’t like to “plan” stuff or “think” about things. So it’s not that I [...]
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: 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 [...]
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 looking at you, Pitchfork. [...]
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 about the Club pretty [...]
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 they’ve done it and also the [...]
Smack Madness 