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2009 Brit Award nominations are out…

January 22nd, 2009 by

The Brits are the largest music awards in the UK. This year’s nominees have just been announced, with Coldplay and Duffy receiving the most, including for Best British Album. They are joined in that category by Elbow, Radiohead and The Ting Tings. If you’re not familiar with Brit-rock group Elbow, I thoroughly recommend checking out their latest album The Seldom Seen Kid, and lead singer Guy Garvey’s weekly radio show on BBC 6Music (most BBC material is available online for up to a week is after it is broadcast; check out Guy’s show here).

How To Do All This And Survive?

December 12th, 2008 by

Have you ever had so many events to check out in one weekend that you lose your power of omnipresence? Well, this looks to be one of those weekends. The only problem is that recently the Computer Gods got a bit dizzy (or it could have been also a solar storm. Who knows what it [...]

B6 + Antidote + “Post Haze”

November 15th, 2008 by

Lou Nanli, 樓南立, is B6: musician, producer, graphic designer; an artist, in summary. His newest album, Post Haze, will be released tonight at The Shelter. Post Haze was also produced by B6, except for one track: “Red Sky”, a remix of a track by Shanghai duo John & Kaka. Post Haze is being released under [...]

Hermitud in The Shelter

October 9th, 2008 by

It sounded like it should mean something, I searched around and I found this:  hermitude: a combination of the words ‘hermit’, and, ‘attitude’ indicating the suggestion of the ‘hermetic vas’ spoken of by Jung. In Jungian terminology, the Hermit is the archetypal “Wise Old Man”. The hermit, being “the primitive man who trusts the unconscious” [...]

The Shanghai Jazz Festival is Basically Here

September 18th, 2008 by

Tonight is the big opening, so get ready. We’ve got the line-up in our live dates page now, so you can check out who’s playing when. It’s been organized by the people at JZ club, and will feature many of their bands, as well as other local acts, and national and international stars. Like many [...]

Pink Floyd’s piano Richard Wright goes back to the great gig

September 16th, 2008 by

[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sein6WnbY0[/youtube] Richard Wright founding member of Pink Floyd; piano, organ, keyboard player and composer, died yesterday, being 65 years old. Wright was part of Pink Floyd since the beginning, when their name was Sigma 6, together with Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour, until 1980 when he left the band to come [...]

Live Rock Magic; how to be in the joy of CONTROL.

September 12th, 2008 by

Saturday, September 13th, 8.30pm. Shanghai will be entering the red zone of the thermometers and the epicenter is going to be Dream Factory’s stage. Not far away from the harmonic Jing An Temple and the peaceful Jade Buddha Temple, the loudness and the chaos will explode in pleasant agreement with our bodies; we all will [...]

Finally!

September 2nd, 2008 by

It took us sometime to recover after one month of unquiet silence; the Olympics were only two weeks, but the sound effect lasted one month. While some people were breaking records on sports and beer drinking, here at Layabozi we were having a little rest under the shadow during summer days, we didn’t have the [...]