Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The guitarist from Jefferson Airplane plays solo at Yuyintang, Sweedish post-rockers Immanu El promote their new album, and local metal heads play a Lamb of God pre-party show! Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for everything else. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Local musicians release an 18-band compilation CD with two nights of concerts, Cold Fairyland plays Yuyintang, and some Mongolian garage rock rounds us out on Sunday! Read on for details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Yuyintang pays you to check out some music, Simple Plan finally makes its Shanghai debut, more Scandinavian metal at Mao, and some free rock at Bee Dees. Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Don't start thinking it's going to be a quiet weekend just because it's Christmas. You live in Shanghai, get your head on straight. We've got Christmas Eve rock concerts, a special extra edition of Trash-A-GoGo, a Rock and Roll Pillow Fight Party, and some Christmas chamber music on Sunday to round things out. Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for everything else happening this Christmas weekend. more ›

This week is practically dead compared to last week, but our local scene more than makes up for it with two exciting concerts happening this weekend. On Friday local favorite space rock band Duck Fight Goose release their LP at Yuyintang, promising to draw in the local music scene in its entirety. On Sunday, ditch your brunch spot and instead head over to Yuyintang at 2pm to catch local trash rock duo Pairs bring some fresh student talent to the stage. Read on for all the details, or head over to our calendar for more! more ›

This week Three Chord Truth brings us the third edition of the BooshKaBaash music festival and Split Works celebrates their 5-year anniversary with five nights of concerts. So much happening, let's just skip the pleasantries and get right to it. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Yuyintang seems to be the place to go this week, with electrifying musical performances almost every day, with The 88's, The Illumin8tors, and Friend or Foe, as well as mini-music fests Sound Wonderland and Dakou! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: we have Soul II Soul Soundsystem kicking off their November edition of Mao Livehouse's Club Night, then Rocksgiving, Laura Jansen's China tour, and the Shanghai debuts of Mogwai and Trail of Tears! And if that's still not enough, head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Klaxons and Two Gallants schlep it out east, Illumin8tors get freaky, Rom and Boys Climbing Ropes/X is Y drop their new albums, plus Japanese psychobilly, Moscow post-punk, and Beijing hardcore! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Friend or Foe album release concert, HEALTH plays a free show if you can get tickets, Wooozy sessions are back with rock from Wuhan, and local grunge on Single's Day! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The Akoncert, a Friend or Foe album preview, Icelandic dream pop in the form of Pascal Pinon, and Androsace releases their new CD! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for even more. more ›

Midweek Music Mreview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: The 5th annual Halloween rock tribute concert, French post-rock, Japanese speed metal, and Boys Noize returns to Shanghai! Read on for details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek Music Mreview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Gender confusion and Assuie rock with East Brunswick All Girls Choir at Logo, Max Tundra brings UK pop electronic to Logo, and a full length rock opera by local performance crew The Illumin8tors. There is plenty going on this week, so read on for details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

Midweek music preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Paperdoll, Arcane Saints, Beijing Beatles, Da Bang, Asia Metal Festival, Island Mood, Zangnan and The Walrus! more ›

Midweek music preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. Unfortunately for those of you stuck in town this week (like us), there's apparently nothing like the Chinese National Holidays to absolutely murder local music. Yuyintang's got a few gigs to get us through, and this week we're listing a few of the local DJ sets to at least keep you occupied! Check out details below, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Midweek music preview is our weekly rundown of everything happening on stages across the city. On the docket this week: Local duo Pairs releases their sophomore album, Singaporean indie folk outfit The Cheating Sons plays practically every venue in town, and yet another music festival near Shanghai! Read on for details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

We're all still coming down off of Black Rabbit Festival (photos coming soon!) but this week has plenty going on in music: UK boy band heart throbs Westlife are in China for the first time, The Instigation bids farewell to their lead singer, and STD holds yet another concert this month! Read on for all the details, or check out or calendar for even more. more ›

There's quite a lot happening in music this week if you're looking to keep your ears busy. The Pretty Reckless are in town, local rock shows are all over the place, and Maybe Mars is throwing a concert at YYT on Saturday. That's all well and good but oh em gee WE ARE SO EXCITED FOR BLACK RABBIT! The festival kicks off at noon on Sunday and we've got all the instructions and info you'll need to get yourself there and navigate the stages. So read on for details, or check out our calendar for even more. more ›

The light is at the end of the tunnel Shanghai. Everything finally starts picking up again next week, beginning with Black Rebel Motorcycle club next Tuesday, followed by The Pretty Reckless and Black Rabbit fest. Not to mention the Shanghai migration cycle should soon bring most of our local rock back to us as the heat lifts and vacation time runs out. This week, we'll try to tide you over with a return of STD parties to Yuyintang, a smattering of DJ parties, and hands down the best mandolin player we've seen outside of the professional American bluegrass circuit. more ›

That's right! You can win absolutely FREE tickets to hear a once proud mainstay of the Shanghai music scene. Georgia Sam Blues Band is back after five years and they are heading over to Yuyintang this weekend for a night of rock, blues, and Americana. more ›

How about this weather? Perfect excuse to get out of the house and hear some tunes. Live Bar is turning six years old this week and to celebrate they are inviting us all to a free concert! And if you want even more local rock, Trash A GoGo is at it again with Duck Fight Goose playing at Yuyintang Saturday. Then there's some psychadelic rock from Macau, and MAO gets its metal on with To Die For from Finland. Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

We are very excited for this month's round of Trash A Go-Go, as they are playing host to the recent Rock Naadam tour, featuring acts from around Mongolia and Shanghai! We also have James Blunt on Sunday, and don't forget! Even though they aren't "live music" we'll go ahead and give a shout out to the Antidote birthday bash happening tomorrow (Thursday) night at C's. Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

Apparently all you need is a good typhoon scare to bring in some good tunes! This week, we were originally supposed to be treated to TWO big-name acts, Neon Trees and Simple Plan. Unfortunately for all you pop punk fans out there, Simple Plan has been canceled. Punk fans can instead catch French punk in the form of The Shapers at Yuyintang on Friday. This week also brings in another Wooozy Session, some "anti-folk" in the form of Jeffrey Lewis, and oh yeah! Zebra Festival is back on! Canceled last weekend because of the typhoon-that-wasn't, they've rescheduled most of the lineup for this weekend, and most of the headliners are coming back! Read on for all the details, or check out our calendar for even more! more ›

Continuing in the dead, too-hot-to-move season of the Shanghai/China music scene, this week you can scrape by on another round of local garage/punk rock meet up Trash A Go-Go, Japanese punk rock at MAO, and French punk at LOgO. Read on for details, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

All the excitement this week is on Saturday, with not one but TWO small festivals. You can choose to either head to Big Bamboo on Hongqiao Lu for CanCham's music fest or, if reggae is more your steez, O'Malley's is hosting a reggae-thon. When those things end, choose from any one of three great acts going on Saturday night: electro rock at YYT, new Chinese bands at Mao Livehouse or Boys Climbing Ropes' fund-raising drive at Lune. more ›

Lot of notables popping in this week to our Shanghai music scene. We've got Kelis shaking up some milkshakes for us, DJ Shinichi Osawa mixing up some mad beats, SVIC putting on an inspiring performance, and David Fray pulling at the strings - all to make this week 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!) or the all-inclusive calendar. 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!) or the all-inclusive calendar. So last week seemed to be all about the jazz, what with the JZ music festival; this week (if we're going to generalize all these events as one genre) - get ready to rock on. more ›

This week's a jazz fantasy world, thanks to the JZ Music Festival. But that's not to say there isn't plenty of everybody else. While lots of jazz headliners are going to fill up the schedule this week, there are plenty of bands just ready to blow your mind - that is...if you're ready. more ›

So this week, mega-artist Sean Kingston is here, if you haven't already gathered from the article title. Maybe the music schedule cleared up this week to make room for this sensation? Not the busy week we're accustomed to, but nonetheless - some great live music out there! more ›