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 [...]
The indie rock/rockabilly showdown
Banana Monkey (the indie rockers) and Rolling Bowling (the rockers-abilly) played a double bill at Yuyintang. First up: Banana Monkey. I actually feel like maybe I talk about Banana Monkey a little [...]
Daniel Hart at YYT (again?!)
I’ve seen Daniel Hart in Shanghai before. Maybe at Yuyintang? Maybe somewhere else. Maybe on the street just hanging out. I can’t immediate place it because it was before I started [...]
Girls Like Mystery and albums that never get opened
I get psyched for album releases. Like, really excited, because I love to get an actual, physical copy of an album. It’s the best souvenir I can get in Shanghai because most of the time I know [...]
Review: The euphonious sounds of urban folk
I decided that I was going to listen to more Chinese music (gasp! While living in China and actively writing about music. Crazy, right?). I actually hear loads of local indie Chinese music just by [...]
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 [...]
Shanghai music videos (still better than MTV)
We have bands in Shanghai! Also, sometimes they make music videos, because that’s what bands do, right? I mean, if they’re good-looking enough and all. Here’s a roundup of some [...]
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: Rock ‘n’ roll at Yuyintang with lots of white guys
Sometimes it’s nice just to go somewhere and hear some music. You know, nothing fancy. Just some good ol’ slightly messy, very loud, strangely enthusiastic music. For a cheap-ass price. [...]
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 I’d never heard live [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 got eaten by a dog! This [...]
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 the British Council. So [...]
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, multi-venue, multi-genre mini-fest [...]
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 and has a few other bands [...]
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 [...]
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 got there about 10, and [...]
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 think), a lot of [...]
Smack Madness 