Surviving October

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

Editor’s Picks Oct. 22-25 + Win Tickets To Our Show at YYT

Babyface, OUR SHOW, Yu Guo, Starch, OUR SHOW, Adoquin, a Piano Competition, a tribute to Richard Rogers, and OUR SHOW. Also, you can WIN TICKETS TO OUR SHOW!!! That’s right, the conflict-of-interest pick is back and better than ever.

Layabozi Presents: Culture Clash!!!

Hiding in plain sight, that’s what we’ve been doing. But no more! Remember that time when Layabozi dominated YuYinTang? Oh, just wait, my uninitiated young pup.

Editor’s Picks, June 5-7

As you may or may not know, Mike “The Big Duck” Brownell is currently gnoshing gnocchi in Italy and he has entrusted me to list the events that will potentially cause you to rock out, relax, expand, canoodle, dance, head-nod, stay up until 4 AM when you wake up at 6 for work, etc. (insert desired scenario here).

Shanghai Music Chronicles: When Music is Rocking in Shanghai.

Last week our editor’s picks were in tune with my mood for music, and I followed the instructions provided by Mike “Big Duck” Brownell almost to the letter.

Re-tros Preview + Contest: Win 2 Tickets

Win tickets to Saturday’s YYT show! Click through to find out how.

Here’s my review of what they did with Cut Off!:

Dark.

Very Dark.

I think its safe to put this in the Gothic Rock section.

Hedgehog 4/11 at YuYinTang

The place was packed and it was only 9pm. With the new renovations Yuyingtang’s manager Durn (Haisheng) has been working on, a lot more folks can squeeze in to get their live fix, and over 400 turned up for the show Saturday night. After getting us all excited with Yoi and Pinkberry, nice and cozy with Wild Cat (the Asian rock team), and then revved up with Crazy Mushroom slinging us around from a whisper to a scream, Hedgehog made a big entrance.

Summer is over, but Music is not!

Last weekend (and month) we were in a roller coaster of music, so intense I even forgot to complain about the ‘cold’ air coming back to Shanghai last Friday. OK, not cold, but not hot anymore and I’ve never forgot before to complain about summer ending. This week hass been also full of things to [...]