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• Posted Yah mon! Ziggy Marley tomorrow night to Shanghaiist
  All you reggae fans who missed the legendary Byron Lee on his Shanghai tour last year must be kicking yourselves. (Actually, everyone missed the legendary Byron Lee on his Shanghai tour last year, because his band showed up on stage at the Shanghai Centre but he didn’t). But now you can make amends. Ziggy Marley plays the Yun Feng Theatre tomorrow night — the same venue where James Brown tore the house down and Dirty...
• Posted Teen age riot! Sonic Youth to tour China in April to Shanghaiist
  The last time Shanghaiist saw Sonic Youth live was 10 or so years ago on a blistering hot day on Australia’s Gold Coast, as they played the most self-indulgent set of music since Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music. Twenty-five minutes into one noisy (noisome, even) free-form jam of whiny guitars, we wandered over to the festival’s other stage only to find a heinously drunk Beck (pre Odelay fame) sitting on a stool, almost slumped over...
• Posted Roger Waters: Devilishly Good to Shanghaiist
  It's funny all the flap that was made here about the lyrical content of certain Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton songs, not to mention visa/vulgarity issues for Jay-Z and others, yet Roger Waters slips under the radar and delivers a long, loud set full of blatant references to just about everything that the authorities were presumably guarding against. Who knows, perhaps his lyrics were screened and his set-list given the thumbs up. For the sake...
• Posted Set the Controls for the Shanghai Grand Stage to Shanghaiist
  Shanghaiist has learnt that if you synchronize the seminal Pink Floyd record The Dark Side of the Moon with the evening footage displayed on the Aurora building in Lujiazui, certain previously hidden messages are unearthed. For instance, one of the lines from the song “Money” -- “I'm in the high-fidelity first class traveling set” -- corresponds with a figure on the screen pointing towards the penthouse suites of the Pudong Shangri-La Hotel. Later, when the...
• Posted Interview: Paul French, author to Shanghaiist
  British-born business consultant and writer Paul French has lived in Shanghai for a good chunk of time -- though not nearly as long as Carl Crow, who spent a quarter of a century in the city during the tumultuous early decades of the 20th century. And it's this long stint that Crow, an American adman, spent in Shanghai which forms the basis of French's latest book, Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand -- The...