Live Music

Surviving October

October 30th, 2009 by

Mache waxes poetic on the eventful past couple of weeks in the Shanghai music scene.

Bigger Bang Bucks

September 19th, 2009 by

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Bigger Bang knows how to move a crowd. This was evidenced by their overwhelmingly enjoyable set at Yuyintang on Saturday.

Jeff Lang in Shanghai

August 8th, 2009 by

Before the show, I planned to write a review / reaction, but the review part is almost impossible now. This was, by a pretty big margin, the best gig I’ve ever seen at the venerable YYT, and I’ve seen a lot of my favs there (Hedgehog, Carsick, The Gar, etc.) But Jeff blew them away…

Prepare Well for Jeff Lang

July 31st, 2009 by

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 [...]

Musical Road Map: Entry One

July 2nd, 2009 by

In which our intrepid correspondent journeys deep into hippie/yuppie land to sample some of the most anti-hippie/yuppie music there is.

Great Music For Everyone’s Ears

June 25th, 2009 by

I was at the last day of the Zhajiang Dream Factory mini-festival this past Friday night. This was the third year of this new and hopeful tradition here in Shanghai, an event that attempts to cross the cultures of Germany and China under the catchy, if sinister sounding, heading of “German Tunes for Chinese Ears.” [...]

The Reincarnation of the Monkees

June 18th, 2009 by

This one is from some time ago, with all the activity it got mixed with other articles and it just came out of the chaos we are having these days here (actually Mark himself rescued it from the abyss where all unpublished articles go to float… we should do a compilation of those once). Anyway, better later than never, here Life Journey’s gig on YuYinTang, reviewed by Mark, aka M.E. Seeley, the evelish duck. …Sorry Mark, it will never happen again.

The Ghost Who Came to Dinner

June 17th, 2009 by

“Wu Tang Clan ain’t nothin’ to fuck wit!” is a hypothesis that has been tested innumerable times in uncountable places. After tonight’s show at WTF Club I am tempted to call it an axiom.