Prepare Well for Jeff Lang

Genre-bending is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, and it seems to even more commonly apply to artists’ live shows. It’s hard t avoid it though, as Jeff Lang is truly a genre-bending man. A brief look through his catalog will tell you that this is a man who, simply, has [...]

Editor’s Picks July 30-Aug 2

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About Antidepressant Tablets

Coming back home, walking back on your first steps, passing by your usual drugstore, you start feeling a bunch of mixed images, thoughts and experiences that can be only compared with ones extracted from one of the most dramatic Bergman movies. The lights from the drugstore become blurred and welcome you to the diagnosis of your current condition:

Editor’s Picks July 23-26

Thursday Heart Attack On a quiet Thursday like today, why not check out Shanghai’s newest hipster haven? It’s Indie night, and so perhaps the most suitable time to see what it’s all about. DJs are Miniless records founder Hans, Boys Climbing Ropes singer and super scenester Little Punk, and stalwart DJ Sacco. Not Me, 21 [...]

ONRA’s 1.0.8

This Saturday Free the Wax will have one of their very well directed events, this time bringing ONRA to The Shelter. In preparation we’ve got a review of the beatmaker’s newest album 1.0.8. You can listen to the album while you read it.

It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks

It’s with heavy regret that I must admit it is unfortunate I was born Chinese. If that seems like a self-defeating statement from someone who doesn’t respect himself, well that’s not the case; I love being Chinese and being part of a deep and storied culture, just as I love the fact that I get to witness in my lifetime the rise to prominence of a great nation whose time has been long in the making. You know – my people. However, my ethnicity was never so problematic for me before I came to China a few years ago; you see, I have the unfortunate disadvantage of being a foreigner who looks Chinese.

Musical Road Map: Entry Three

In which you get hipped and my bro gets hyped.

Musical Road Map: Entry Two

In which time is not on our side, girl.