MP3 Monday: Two from Two
By Morgan Short, Oct 25th, 2010 | In Nightlife
MP3 Monday is a weekly SmartShanghai column, serving up mp3s from bands living and making music in China (or coming to China, or thinking about coming to China, or whatever). Copyright holders: if you would like your song removed, please email us here, and we'll honor your request promptly.
Before we begin the yearly onslaught of Halloween related articles, here's some tracks for two non-Halloween related shows this week.
Of course, speaking purely objectively and with absolutely no commercial interest in it at all, if you're looking for Halloween rock it's here, with this big, absurd tribute rock show and it's here, the last Trash a Go Go at LOgO with The Paralyz. Both of those should be terrific.
But yeah, anyways, here's two good-looking shows this week that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween:
Monday, Oct. 25: Pop Levi @ Dada
Thursday, Oct. 28: Daniel Hart @ Yuyintang
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Playing in Shanghai on one night only, tonight, is Ninja Tune's Pop Levi, an English musician who kind of looks like Prince Valiant from space and is quite something. Before arriving to massive critical acclaim in the mid '00s with a couple of albums of freakie glam pop, Levi was in a bunch of bands, including Super Numeri and Ladytron.
This is the hit song from Pop Levi's 2007 debut record, The Return to Form Black Magick Party. Taste the goods.
Pop Levi is the real soup de jour from Ninja Tune, coming to us in Shanghai with Jarvis Cocker approval, so getting to see him play some stuff for free is quite the lucky deal. He's in town with something called the "Whisper Festival" for which tonight's event is a warm-up party.
The Whisper Festival actually takes place this weekend in Shenzhen not Shanghai. If you're interested in that, here's the link.
And here’s the event listings for tonight's show.
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It's not the first time Daniel Hart has played in Shanghai but this week is the first time he's here on his own project. You might remember Hart as the backing musician for St. Vincent when she was here earlier this year, performing to a full house at Yuyintang. He's also played in a bunch of other American neu/neo/new folkish bands like The Polyphonic Spree, The Rosebuds, Pattern is Movement and more. He's back in China, playing this Friday at the Expo, but let's face it, you're not getting into that, so just go see him at Yuyintang on Thursday.
Here's one of his tunes.
Here's something interesting. Daniel Hart, apparently, plays one of those old Nintendo Power Pads with his feet as part of his act. That's his drums.
Remember these bad asses?
He uses that as a midi controller and dances that shit out as part of his show. That's pretty neat-o. Don't see that every day. Cover for that one is 40rmb. Starts 9pm. Locals X is Y open up, so that's cool too.
Here's the event details.
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Before we begin the yearly onslaught of Halloween related articles, here's some tracks for two non-Halloween related shows this week.
Of course, speaking purely objectively and with absolutely no commercial interest in it at all, if you're looking for Halloween rock it's here, with this big, absurd tribute rock show and it's here, the last Trash a Go Go at LOgO with The Paralyz. Both of those should be terrific.
But yeah, anyways, here's two good-looking shows this week that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween:
Monday, Oct. 25: Pop Levi @ Dada
Thursday, Oct. 28: Daniel Hart @ Yuyintang
***
Playing in Shanghai on one night only, tonight, is Ninja Tune's Pop Levi, an English musician who kind of looks like Prince Valiant from space and is quite something. Before arriving to massive critical acclaim in the mid '00s with a couple of albums of freakie glam pop, Levi was in a bunch of bands, including Super Numeri and Ladytron.
This is the hit song from Pop Levi's 2007 debut record, The Return to Form Black Magick Party. Taste the goods.
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Pop Levi is the real soup de jour from Ninja Tune, coming to us in Shanghai with Jarvis Cocker approval, so getting to see him play some stuff for free is quite the lucky deal. He's in town with something called the "Whisper Festival" for which tonight's event is a warm-up party.
The Whisper Festival actually takes place this weekend in Shenzhen not Shanghai. If you're interested in that, here's the link.
And here’s the event listings for tonight's show.
***
It's not the first time Daniel Hart has played in Shanghai but this week is the first time he's here on his own project. You might remember Hart as the backing musician for St. Vincent when she was here earlier this year, performing to a full house at Yuyintang. He's also played in a bunch of other American neu/neo/new folkish bands like The Polyphonic Spree, The Rosebuds, Pattern is Movement and more. He's back in China, playing this Friday at the Expo, but let's face it, you're not getting into that, so just go see him at Yuyintang on Thursday.
Here's one of his tunes.
Please install Flash Player
Here's something interesting. Daniel Hart, apparently, plays one of those old Nintendo Power Pads with his feet as part of his act. That's his drums.
Remember these bad asses?
He uses that as a midi controller and dances that shit out as part of his show. That's pretty neat-o. Don't see that every day. Cover for that one is 40rmb. Starts 9pm. Locals X is Y open up, so that's cool too.
Here's the event details.
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