This Week's Tickets: Get Your May Festival Tickets Now
*** Modern Sky's annual Strawberry Music Festival is one of the biggest in the game, bringing China's best indie, punk, metal and electronic talents to the big stage with a smattering of visitors from Europe, the US, Japan and beyond. The three-day banger goes down from April 29 to May 1, at a new location, the Shanghai Community Sports Club field in Pudong. Also new this year is their Young Blood Project stage, a platform dedicated to audiovisual art. Headliners this year are still being announced, but they include Wednesday Campanella, Superdry SoundsxTimmy Xu, the fin., New Pants, Re-TROS, Liars, with more to come. The bigger names are joined by dozens of local and international artists, spread across five roughly-genre delineated stages. Get your tickets right here. JZ Spring is back with the customary raft of top-notch jazz performers filling the streets with sultry and/or bombastic tunes, marking the 100th anniversary of jazz in Shanghai. In addition to the hundreds of talented local and international jazz scene regulars that make the festival a hit every time, this year's ticket sees performances from quadrilingual Chinese songstress Shunza, prolific jazz vocal quartet New York Voices and jazz pillars Mike Stern and Dave Weckl performing with Tom Kennedy and and local sax player Ye Huang. All this year's outdoor performances in Jing'an Park, HKRI Taikoo Hui, Crystal Galleria and Jing'an Kerry Center, are free to the public, and tickets are on sale for the higher-profile performances in the Shanghai Centre Theater. Get your tickets right here. April sees eclectic, prolific music festival Electric Daisy Carnival making its China debut in Shanghai's International Music Park. Two days and four themed stages pumping out the full spectrum of that hot, hot EDM. Headliners announced in Phase 1 include Hardwell, Illenium, Martin Garrix and the immortal Deadmau5. With interactive art installations scattered throughout the space, and dancers, stilters, aerialists, circus performers, and other whimsical characters decked out in specially-designed costumes, whole place oozess that otherworldly carnival vibe. This place runs on imagination, positivity and inclusivity, and it takes place rain or shine. Get your tickets right here. Hand in Hand International Children's Music Festival is back in Shanghai! The brainchild of hubby and wife duo Rebecca Kanthor and Liu Jian, the Shanghai-based organizers bring together bands from all over the world to play a bright, bubbly, family-friendly mix of rock and pop music for an audience of kids. The 90min presentation (which includes a 20 min intermission) will see performances from world-renowned Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band from the US, doing colorful PBS variety-show style "kindie" rock, and Hippe Gasten (literally "Cool Guys") from Holland doing a mix of showy percussion and some rockier numbers that could encourage some pre-teens to consider a metal-heavy adolescence . Good fun for the whole musically-inclined family with kids of 1 year and older.Get your tickets right here. Los-Angeles based DJ and founder of independent record label Stones Throw Records, Peanut Butter Wolf's been spinning bold, technically masterful hip-hop beats since 1984. Best known for his record collection, themed vinyl sets (including an extended, marathon 12-hour set at Boiler Room on December 12, 2012), his video DJ shows spanning decades and highlighting rare and vintage footage, and his role as music supervisor on the seminal A Tribe Called Quest documentary "Beats, Rhymes & Life." His music's old-school, head-bobbing hip-hop cut with just about anything he likes. Get your tickets right here.