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Category Archives: Music
Concert Tuesday: Nouvelle Vague and . . .Eels (not really)
A rare Tuesday night concert in Shanghai. Openers were French new wave cover band Nouvelle Vague. The Shanghaiist discription was that they played New Wave and punk covers – but in more of a bossa nove fashion. And I thought: … Continue reading
Queen Sea Big Shark @ Mao Livehouse
Queen Sea Big Shark is one of Beijing’s most well-known indie bands. I would say they’re like if Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fronted Franz Ferdinand with a lot more Korg keyboards and a spacey sound. People around … Continue reading
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Caught Up
On Saturday March 12, Usher Raymond IV performed at Shanghai’s Mercedes Benz Arena. Best known for his R&B hits such as You Make Me Wanna, Caught Up, Confessions Part II, DJ Got Us Falling Love and the title of his … Continue reading
Saskatchewan
From a Boys Climbing Ropes opening gig about 7 weeks ago.
Yo Yo Ma in Shanghai
Since I’m way behind on everything, here’s some catching up. A couple of weeks ago, the greatest current living cellist Yo Yo Ma was here in Shanghai. Tickets were pretty expensive but I figured how many opportunities do you really … Continue reading
How come all karaoke photos look the same?
A selection of shots from last week’s karaoke madness:
Three Japanese Women in Shanghai
If you were a big Nirvana or Sonic Youth fan in the early 90s, you knew that Kurt Cobain and Thurston Moore were fans of this, then obscure, Osaka based trio of Japanese women who put out Ramones-lite power pop … Continue reading
emo in shanghai
Everyone Most people have guilty music pleasures. Whether its Culture Club or Neil Diamond or Journey. Sure, there’s that cheesy sort of guilty pleasure, and I have a whole iTunes library full of that sort of music. But then, there’s … Continue reading
the roots x ice cube
doing nwa songs? pretty awesome. apparently before the show cube’s people were saying “don’t ask him to do nwa songs – he won’t do nwa songs” then in warm-up, before the on-air portion, they ask him to play along, and … Continue reading
expo post #3, ozomatli rocks the expo, but not without some issues
los angeles band ozomatli played in shanghai’s zhongshan park 3 years ago at the yue festival and their latin funk, hip-hop, reggae, rock party tunes were a lot of fun and they reminded me of home (los angeles). according to … Continue reading