Four-Day Workweek (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)

Thursday has already become the precursor to the weekend and musicians in the city have been taking that prelude and running with it.

DJ Vadim’s “U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun”

1999 was a long time ago, but it doesn’t really feel that way, does it? Maybe this is because The Aughts Decade never really spawned a true zeitgeist identity, but it undermines the fact that a decade has passed, a long time to continue to show and prove in the hip hop game.

Leo Messias and “A Free The Wax Anthology”

Leo Messias is the rhythm behind Free the Wax and together with Katrina Lui, his partner in crime, started this adventure more than a year ago. Here a playlist to go over the first chapter of Free the Wax.

Editor’s Picks Nov. 20-22

The Grand Opening of Mao Livehouse (FREE), the last Free the Wax Show for now, and more…

Free The Wax and Sub-Culture: The Gaslamp Killer at The Shelter

Date: Saturday, November 21st
Time: 9 pm
Entrance: 50 RMB
Venue: The Shelter
Address: 5 Yongfu Lu (Near Fuxing Xi Lu)
Support: Deville, dji, Drunk Monk, MC Didje

FREE the WAX and Sub-Culture present…

THE MOTHERFUCKING GASLAMP KILLER is the animal-styled freak-of-nature DJ that every mom is afraid of.
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Editor’s Picks Nov. 5-8

A packed packed PACKED weekend, especially Friday. Get busy and get to these shows!

Eliot Lipp. Peace Love Weed 3D.

Peace Love Weed 3D is the sort of album that’s it’s a true pleasure to discover. It’s an album that is accessable to both the armchair enthusiast as well as the casual listener. While the album blurb would have you believe that it covers ‘instrumental electro-funk, acid, fusion, and italo disco inspired sounds’ it’s somewhat to it’s detriment to try and place it in already defined genres when it really deserves to stand on it’s own. It’s an album that is going to be most enjoyed by those that have a taste for the

Surviving October

Mache waxes poetic on the eventful past couple of weeks in the Shanghai music scene.