Andrew Bird, playing for the first time ever in China to a sold out crowd at Zhijiang Dream Factory. In one of the few times he engaged in stage banter during the two hour long set (impressive!), he commented, "[Shanghai] seems like it could be a real tough place to live." Indeed. more ›

• Andrew Bird is sure to be crowded tonight. Split Works has informed us that all the presale tickets have now been sold out. The last 100 tickets will be on sale from 12pm to 5pm today at the Zhijiang Dream Factory box office. More info at Split! [Split Works]
• CNNGo talks to three up-and-coming designers in Shanghai about the trials and tribulations of trying to make a living in fashion. [CNN Go]
• For all of you who follow airline consolidation drama: China Eastern has now completed its takeover of our very own Shanghai Air. [WSJ]

Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!) more ›

Oh happy day! After the Handsome Furs came and left, we didn't think we'd be hit by another act we'd look forward to so gleefully so soon. But now our sources at Split! have told us that - barring any weird visa issues/sudden changes in show regulations - ANDREW BIRD will be heading here in late January 2010. YES! more ›

Since Shanghaiist kicked off in July this year, we've inflicted opinion after opinion on you, our faithful readership. Here comes a whole bunch more. more ›

Greetings, music fans. Below you will find, in Shanghaiist's humble opinion, all the music you should have been listening to in the first half of 2005. And if you haven't been able to check these albums out yet, you still have plenty of time to load them on to your mp3 player of choice before 2006. Five Shanghaiist contributors submitted five albums each for a total and 25 -- and they wrote exactly 25 words about each one (exactly, only if you are very lenient with your rules of hyphenation). And yes, we are aware that these "Best of the Year (so far)" lists should really happen at the end of June and not at the end of July. But we're a start-up blog in China -- you expect us to be organized? more ›