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. 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 ›

Album release parties galore this weekend, and the two biggest ones land on the same night (Saturday)! Pet Conspiracy and Fever Machines will both be slinging new CDs, as will Voodoo Kungfu. Read on for details and other stuff, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

If you're thinking of staying home this weekend, hopefully these shots will convince you otherwise. Saturday night at Yuyintang featured rock acts that varied in style and sound, with hardcore punk, garage punk and outright screaming all making an appearance during the evening. more ›

The May Day holiday (International Worker's Day, whatever) this weekend means an explosion of music festivals around China. Two of them are close by if you fancy a road trip: The Strawberry Music Festival in Suzhou and the Nanjing International Music Festival, where you can catch big names like Carsick Cars and SUBS (if you missed them in Shanghai.) If not, stick around Shanghai and catch excellent Japanese post-rockers MONO, and plenty of other local rock happening around town. Read on for highlights, or check out our calendar for more! more ›

This week is fairly dead as far as international acts go, but there's plenty of local talent to fill in the gaps! We've got Chinese metal bands at MAO Livehouse, the monthly Fever Machines show, and some earthy Taiwanese folk music. We only list the highlights here at Midweek Music Preview, so if you're looking for full listings check out our calendar! more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Monday through Thursday. First off, happy Qing Ming Festival! If you're not off sweeping your ancestor's graves today, here's all the great stuff waiting for you to do: Some really great cinema flicks are on for free--from wu xia flicks to Koryo's North Korea documentary and a French language piece with a discussion to follow. Meanwhile, you can get your late night fill of parties from Yuyintang and Shiva who both have special acts on during the week. Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

All the things you'd want to do this Tuesday through Thursday. On the schedule this week: Mao Livehouse is putting a few international street art acts together, Mi Tierra celebrates its 1st anniversary, the German Chamber of Commerce is holding their 12th annual trade fair which is free and open to everyone, and there'll be a Japan earthquake/tsunami fundraiser taking place at Horizen. Show up and give your support! Read on (or check out our calendar) for more! more ›

Over the weekend, Shanghai-made expat band Moon Tyrant released their debut album Future Superhuman with a party at Yuyintang. Consisting of four musicians from Panama, Tasmania, New York and New Jersey, they play old school rock n' roll with a jazzy metal twist. Shanghaiist's Bo Hershey caught up with one of their members, bassist JC Heinbockel, who chatted with us about their new CD, the local music scene and what's next for the band. In case you didn't get the CD at the release party, you can check them out on their Bandcamp page Douban page, and soon on iTunes! more ›

Once again, the week is utterly jam packed with live music. JUE Festival is still chugging along, and they're in it to win it this Friday with some Yunnan-ese rock at the MAO Livehouse grand reopening! Finally, the city's venues are all back in action. Save yourself some energy, though, because we've also got Mongolian rockers Hanggai, local band Moon Tyrant's CD release, and some indie rock form Holland! Read on for all of our top pics, or check out our calendar for everything else! more ›

Here we are again, folks, bringing you our weekly roundup of the best live music around town! And HOLY GOD there's a lot of it this week. Forget Wednesday and Thursday, this week's Midweek Music Preview is zeroing in on Friday and Saturday, where there's enough talent squeezing onto Shanghai stages to fill a month of concerts. These are all the top picks, but head over to our Calendar if you're looking for more! more ›

JUE Festival has finally arrived! Don't know what that is? Check out a video of last year's highlights for a taste, or read their own explanation here. We're in for two whole weeks of non-stop music and art events (check them out on our calendar, or see the full JUE program here), so get your eyes and ears out on the town and enjoy it! Tonight everything gets going over at Yuyintang, where the A GOOD DAY Records Showcase brings us folk and indie pop straight from Taiwan. more ›

The Shanghai music scene is blowing up this month! YYT is back up and running, and the MAO Livehouse reopening is so close we can smell it. This week brings in TWO big-name acts within a few days of each other. The Eagles play TONIGHT, and super duper big deal USHER plays Saturday. One of those shows will undoubtedly have more production value than the other. And if that's not enough, JUE Fest (Music + Art) kicks off with some Taiwanese indie rock this Friday! Read on for details, or head over to our calendar for more. more ›

Lots happening on Saturday this week, but if you try hard, just maybe you can squeeze it all in. We've got world-famous Israeli trance act Infected Mushroom, some Swedish post-rock, and Super Junior!! Don't forget, these are just the highlights, make sure you check out our calendar for more. more ›

Music fans, say hallelujah! and quickly add this to your list of things to do tonight. 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 ›

It's looking pretty bleak for the local music scene this winter. Yuyintang has announced plans to undergo renovations, closing in January and reopening as late as March. I'm thinking they could do without the backwards sloping floor (somehow tiny Asian girls always get stuck back there) and those elevated tables in the back. Who sits there anyway? more ›

Stockholm native and "electronic futurist" Axel Willner a.k.a. The Field will be heading to Yuyintang on Saturday and is one of this month's must catch acts. Not only has he toured with !!!, LCD Soundsystem and Juan Maclean, he's also built up quite a name of his own. more ›

All the picks for live music from now until Sunday! more ›

Yuyintang is insanely busy this week, with an act almost every night! And what acts too - hip hop, dream pop, math rock and folk all make appearances. Besides that, you can also get into Fatman Scoop, Teengirl Fantasy and Shonen Knife - top acts from around the world that are all making an appearance here this week. more ›

This Saturday, Sub-Culture at Shelter is bringing over two awesome DJs - DJ Seed and DJ Orawan - from Thailand to rock the joint, and they're providing three of you lucky Shanghaiist readers with free tickets! more ›

Oh how sad! We heard over the Twitter grapevine that Live Bar on Kunming Lu, a far out but still necessary live music space shut down! It's a great shame, Live Bar. While you were incredibly hard to get to, we still appreciated the shows we saw there all the same. Despite the bad news, this weekend shows a lot of promise to music lovers. more ›

One of the best live shows to hit Shanghai last year was Canadian indie band Handsome Furs' energy packed set at Yuyintang (we're not just saying that, it was top on our list of Best Music of 2009), so it's awesome to learn that they're coming to China yet again at the end of summer. more ›

Every Friday, Weekendist brings you our picks of the best of what's coming in the next three days. more ›

So, here we go again with a question that we didn't think would have more plot twists than Lost: Is Shanghai nightlife going to suck during the Expo? Current answer: Maybe. Maybe not. more ›

Yep, our worst fears have come true. Shanghai's nightlife is looking set to suck during the Expo period as officials get strict on clubs and bars across the city. more ›

While we contain our excitement for the soft opening of Obama Club this coming Monday, this weekend has a few treats in store to keep us occupied. Be sure to check our Calendar for more listings. more ›

Every Friday, Weekendist brings you our picks of the best of what's coming in the next three days. more ›

Looks like we can't go a month here without running into another indie sensation these days. Lucky for us! Portland, Oregon-based poppy punky act The Thermals, who've been lauded by NPR, Pitchfork and The Onion's AV Club, are heading to Yuyintang on March 15. Yeah, which means you need to get to the venue early if you want a chance of watching them without being drenched in the sweat of a hundred other bodies. At least in March the garden won't be chilly? Listen to them here. more ›

• Cityweekend invites you to get as Shanghainese as your lily white ass possibly can: eat like them, act like them and drink like them? Ugh, we'll pass on the green tea whiskey, thanks. [Cityweekend]
• Congratulations! Shanghai sports poster child Yao Ming is going to have his own lil' Yao this summer. Somebody break out the cigars! [All Headline News]
• When a listener implored him to stop speaking Shanghainese, Radio host Xiao Jun said "this audience member, please roll yourself into a balland then roll yourself out of this city you so hate or the presence of of these people you so hate." Hilarious! [Chinasmack]