Articles
In Memory of Sugar Mama
Last week Shanghai lost a great singer and a beautiful person. Sugar Mama made a strong impression on audiences around China, and the warmth, humor, and passion she brought to Cotton Club will echo off its walls for a long time to come.
For Love or Money
In China, that’s what they call a devil’s bargain.
What We Learned From Finland
“What We Learned From…” will be a new feature promoting bands who have come to Shanghai in association with the Expo. Now that all of our great venues are intact and countries are bringing their musical talent here to share, we thought it appropriate to document that process, week by week, country by country. This week we were invaded by Finland.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
So Rock in China was all like, “I’ma getchoo, sucka!” and Sound Kapital was like, “Hold me back!” The “May Debate” was going down while we were in transition mode, but I had this written and thought the situation deserved to be covered on Layabozi, even though we were late to the melee.
Forget About LOgO, Yuyintang, and Shelter. Let’s Go to CLUB OBAMA!!!!!!!!!
Sarcasm is always a dangerous device on the Interwebs.
Random Jazz Notes+
Get it! Ha ha. Anyway, I’m underwater with busy-ness, but here’s what my pick for tonight would be, as well as other news and stuff from the general Shanghai jazziverse. The rest of the picks will be up soon.
Other Podcasts We Like
On the subject of podcasts, we thought we would celebrate our first release by hipping you to some of the music podcasts that we like best.
Shanghai, Rock for PETA
Community activism and music collide and unite!
