After being let go by their landlord in Red Town on Huaihai Xi Lu, Mao Livehouse wasted no time finding a comeback spot. Their new location is right next to the highway in the third floor of what, at first glance, seemed like an office building. Remarkably, they've managed to keep the same feel and roughly the same size of Mao Livehouse 1.0. more ›

Sweet jeebus, what's up with Friday of this week? It's like all of Shanghai's promoters got together and decided "You know what? We're going to put up a bunch of things and force Shanghai's music loving public to choose between us." You've got world famous Kardinal Offishall, jazz jammers The Greg Luttrell Band and some of our favorite Shanghai bands doing MJ tributes and more... all in one night. more ›

UPDATE: Pinkberry have been forced to withdraw from Saturday night's line up at Yuyintang (their bassist's wife is seriously ill, we wish her well). more ›

Bam! Bam! Bam! Nope, that's not the sound of Midi hopes being quashed, it's the sound of three straight weekends of great gigs coming your way. Forget all that tiresome festival nonsense and look forward to Battles this weekend, the brilliant Hard Queen next Saturday and then Hedgehog promoting their new album the weekend after. more ›