July 2nd, 2009Posted in Live Music Reviews by zack

In which our intrepid correspondent journeys deep into hippie/yuppie land to sample some of the most anti-hippie/yuppie music there is.
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tags: Blues - Dance - Folk - House - Jazz - Music - Pop - Reggae - Robert Cray - Rock - Shanghai - Soul
July 2nd, 2009Posted in Articles by mache

Michael Jackson’s influence on the history of music is indisputable. This is something everyone understands and respects. So it follows that the majority of the world stopped to recognize him in the aftermath of his death. And it’s still going on.
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tags: Andy Best - Dance - Didje - Electronic - Emo - House - IGO - Japan - Jazz - Michael Jackson - Michael Michael - Music - News - Pop - Rain - Rock - Shanghai - The Who - Theo Croker - UK - Video - Void
June 26th, 2009Posted in Album Reviews by john

Every album has its very own time and place. For Monroe Stahr’s debut album, it really shouldn’t be very hard to deduce the right time. The first track is, “Summer Starts Here,” and that’s about right. The acoustic guitar paints a picture pretty early on of a veranda, or a nice bar/café patio in the hot summer sun, a comfortable, but somewhat [...]
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tags: Elbow - Emo - Joy Division - Listen to - Monroe Stahr - Pop - Racks - Rain - Rock - Void
June 25th, 2009Posted in Live Music Reviews by m. e. seeley

I was at the last day of the Zhajiang Dream Factory mini-festival this past Friday night. This was the third year of this new and hopeful tradition here in Shanghai, an event that attempts to cross the cultures of Germany and China under the catchy, if sinister sounding, heading of “German Tunes for Chinese Ears.” [...]
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tags: Germany - Indie Pop - Kira - Pop Rock - Rock - Shanghai - The Honeys - Zhajiang Dream Factory - Zhong Chi
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Monroe Stahr, Their First Abum “DaShiJie”

Marching Band’s Spark Large : Happy Music
Listening to Spark Large makes me think many things right off the bat. 1.) Sweden and Scandanavia’s rep for making great music lives up to the hype, rare enough in these days. 2.) Marching Band use incredibly lush accompaniments that a [...]

Recommended Dining: Veckatimest
Sometimes “cool” music can seem a bit like vegetables: supposed to be good for you, but hard to choke down. Grizzly Bear’s last album, Yellow House, was my lima beans, but the newly released Veckatimest is my garbanzo beans, which I like infinitely more than lima beans. I am not sure why I like garbanzo b [...]