It's time once again for Shanghai's only favorite music + arts festival! And you can be part of it this year if you fancy yourself savvy with a camera. This year JUE Festival is teaming up with fashion brand ospop to launch the JUE Next Generation Photo Competition. Not only will they showcase a selection of 15 winners as part of the festival, they're also offering a cash prize of 10,000RMB to the winning photographer, and 3,000RMB to the runner-up! more ›

Whether you take your indie pop rock West coast from your dorm room or East coast from your grungy Brooklyn apartment, Shanghai has something for all of you come this spring! Following the enormous names at Black Rabbit last year, Split Works keeps hauling them in for 2012 - this time in the form of US indie sensations Death Cab for Cutie and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. more ›

If you're interested in being part of the team that's putting on next year's Jue Festival taking place in Shanghai and Beijing, then here are the details. Split Works, the same people who brought you the Black Rabbit Festival, is looking for passionate interns who're way LEET when it comes to Chinese and international alternative music, and also possess the requisite language skills, ability to work in a team, and other such employment jargon. more ›

Oops! Two former consular officers of Korea are now being questioned for their "inappropriate ties" with a Chinese woman and for allegedly leaking state secrets. Honey traps! more ›

This year's JUE FestivalMusic + Art Festival, a celebration of the alternative, creative and progressive arts in Shanghai and Beijing, was tons of fun. For those who missed it, or those who want to relive moments of it, organizers Splitworks, in collaboration with Daedalum Films, have now put up a documentary of the event on Vimeo. more ›

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 boy, what a weekend. Besides seeing off SILF and getting crazy with JUE, there's also a couple of Zuloo performances (both in Panto and improv forms) and an 8km run! more ›

As if to signal the end of another dreary winter, this Spring brings the 2010 JUE Music + Art Festival. A celebration of the alternative, creative and progressive arts in Shanghai with no branding, no restrictions and no hidden agenda, JUE is an excuse not to be cooped up in your apartment. more ›

Archie arrived in China in 2005 to set up a company that focused on building both the music industry from the ground up and generating compelling creative and content for brands that have a youth bias. Split Works book and produce tours all around China and Southeast Asia, and curate and produce festivals and brand campaigns — outdoor monster Yue Festival (watch out for this returning in 2010), the International Music and Arts Festival JUE | Music | Art, Bacardi Sino Sessions, Converse Love Noise, etc. He writes a blog on the Chinese Music Industry called China Music Radar and manages a Chinese language only blog on the music industry in China called Wooozy. more ›

Last year's JUE Festival was an awesome one-two punch of art and music that hit us in the dead of winter. This year, SplitWorks has been kind enough to push it back a couple of months so that hopefully we won't freeze our little booties off trying to get to their shows. JUE 2010 will be from March 12 to 29. But who will be showing? more ›

It's been a good two years since Beijing-based punk rockers Carsick Cars released their first self-titled album on the Maybe Mars label. Since then, they've been written up in the foreign press, they were handpicked to open for open for Sonic Youth (though, sadly, the government stepped in there and pulled them out), and they've headlined the JUE Festival... and still, up until just now, there's been no music video! more ›

Remember back in January when you had nothing to do and then, suddenly, out popped a ten-day festival filled with art and music and people to mosh away the winter with? Relive some of the highlights of the Jue Festival, brought to you by Split! Works (who are, incidentally, bringing us Young Knives at Zhijiang Dream Factory this weekend)! more ›

It was raunchy and raw, rockin' and raucous... and now it's over. The two night line up this weekend started out on Friday with Shanghai-based pop-rockers Pinkberry, DJ Sacco and an amazing set from Beijing's Demerit - easily one of the best bands on the alternative scene right now. And on Saturday, Maybe Mars outdid themselves, bringing us AV Okubo, Snapline, Ourself Beside Me and Carsick Cars. Special thanks to Split Works for bringing us two weeks of artistic mayhem. Please sir, may we have another? more ›

French electro-rock group We are ENFANT TERRIBLE, who rocked LOgO last Friday, are doing a special encore show tonight at Yuyintang to end their China tour. Check them out for a repeat of Friday Fun... without the crowd. And don't forget to be there for the end of the JUE Festival this weekend, with two nights of killer acts at Dream Factory. Details: more ›