A new watering hole has popped up from Down Under, backed by Dada, Half Bar and C’s.

Warm hospitality pulls you by the collar into this three-floor frat house. Get your drink (RMB15 beers; RMB30 for cocktails) and then it’s time to play. Two Wiis, a pool table ... Read more »

S.T.D.'s Le Castlevania show is canceled due to visa snafus. Bah, sux. What can you do? Get down to Not Me anyway, where S.T.D. promise a night of cheap drinks, free entry, dancey stuff and talking boys in the garden out the back. Free hugs ... Read more »

Teachers and students, get down to Kaiba on Dingxi tonight for discounts on their tasting Belgian brews. (Beer of the month is Karmeliet Triple, FYI.) Meanwhile, free vodka accompanies FREE the WAX's DJ workshop with Vadim and Yarah Bravo. Boing Boom Tschak tonight isn't free booze, but it ... Read more »

The new issue of City Weekend hits the streets today. The cover of our issue was designed by local artist Chen Hangfeng, who is represented by Art Labor. He talks to us about the ideas behind his work.

City Weekend: Hey Hangfeng, tell us about our cover.

Chen Hangfeng: This ... Read more »

Scoot yourself back to Shanghai in its decadent heyday at this sumptuous lounge in Xintiandi. The bar is furnished in silky, chromatic colors and stylized birdcage lanterns cascade from the ceiling.

Pop in for an aperitif before the dinner rush begins downstairs. Sneak out on to the patio area, look ... Read more »

Memories of Judy’s former, grungier home down the street recede as you step into this sleek, geometrical space kindled with candlelight.

Downstairs are high tables and a stage behind the bar with live music every night. Drinks are mid-priced (beers start at RMB35, spirits at RMB45) and there’s ... Read more »

The boys have become men and now they're back in town. Via Wikipedia, I learned that since their mega-hit album Black & Blue was released in 2000, Kevin Richardson left the Backstreet Boys and the remaining four put out three more albums, the third of which - This Is Us (2009 ... Read more »

Many things afoot this weekend, but I'm not going to tell you about them. Instead, I'll just going to shout about the Dance For Haiti concert on Friday night and The Shelter's show on Saturday.

First, Dance For Haiti. What started off as a little idea about ... Read more »

Mark Ernestus, the man behind one of the most influential electronic record labels of all time, plays for Sub-Culture at The Shelter this weekend. In 1993 he set up Basic Channel along with fellow Berliner Moritz Von Oswald. Their 10 releases on this publicity-shy label still cast a shadow over ... Read more »

Tonight there's the reopening of Not Me and Teenage Kicks round the corner at The Shelter, where you can catch Sacco, Jenn Wong and a bunch of other fruits. Word on the street says Tara's Jueves Latinos night is going to be crammed with hot girls because they ... Read more »

City Weekend: Who you?

Jenn Wong: I work at an advertising agency and on the weekends I take photos, write a blog, partake in general revelry and am a member of the BADTASTIC party crew. I also play the monthly Teenage Kicks party at Shelter with Sacco and Desert Eagle ... Read more »

Need an escape from the concrete jungle? Stop by this mellow spot for a bit of R&R. Earthy décor, shades of mustard and olive and, yes, a real tree at the door make this café / bar more homely than your average chrome-and-plastic clone.

Cheap snacks, RMB35 beers and RMB50 ... Read more »

We love this addition to Shanghai’s wine bars for all the reasons we don’t much like the others.

Dr. Wine is large, relaxing and comfortable, sporting reclaimed-wood floors and historic trimmings salvaged from demolished lane houses.

The wine list is vast and runs to bottles of ’82 Chateau ... Read more »

Bourbon is seen by many as less of a connoisseur’s drink than scotch, but that’s changing. Only a couple of the big brands are imported in bulk, so we scoured the city for bars that keep a few crates of something special tucked away.

First stop was Southern ... Read more »

Another day, another box of pens. I'm really excited about this Chicago house party tonight at LOgO, Taste of Chicago. No one else is, in all likelihood, but I am.

Tomorrow we've got a huge open-bar party and CNY celebration at L18 (it's being thrown by a ... Read more »

It takes something special to get people out partying on a school night in the depths of winter but, every Thursday, a group of well-heeled locals and expats can be found in an out-ofthe- way office complex in north Jing’an, listening to house music, sampling Italian hors d’oeuvres ... Read more »

Confucius says: “Cow pie gilded is nugget wasted.” At first glace, Dao seems promising, with its fusion décor that crosses a Zen temple with Dracula’s dinning hall, and enough candelabra to pose a safety hazard.

But after five minutes it’s obvious there’s nothing much here: mediocre music ... Read more »

From the creator of Judy’s and The Spot comes promising new hangout Judy's Lounge.

A grand chandelier welcomes you to this intimate space scattered with leather sofas. The ambience is sexy but low-key. The tunes are down-tempo and the prices (RMB30 for house mixers) should chill you out ... Read more »

We've just heard that aggro-tech heroine Peaches is coming to Shanghai. The Canadian, who rode the electroclash wave with her 909-driven, sexually explicit anthems will play MAO Livehouse on April 24. Get down and help her and fuck the pain away.

Random Peaches fact: Before finding fame, she shared ... Read more »

City Weekend: Who you?

Theo Croker: I’ve been in shanghai since September 2007. About two and a half years. I’m originally from Florida, near Orlando. Then I migrated to Ohio and then to New York. I’ve never really settled anywhere. I was brought over to play the ... Read more »

Last night's Time Out launch party at M1NT has left us feeling a little wobbly, and it's only Friday morning. When will we learn to pace ourselves? Anyhoo, tonight we will climb back on the horse and go looking for the dog that bit us.

If you haven ... Read more »

Hey! What's Drunk Monk doing tonight at LOgO? We don't know, but there's a cock on the flier. If that's not got you squirming, there are promises of abstract and instrumental hip- and trip-, wonky, dubstep and that sort of stuff.

Tomorrow, it's all about ... Read more »

City Weekend caught up with Shanghainese minimal techno DJ and producer B6, as he gears up for this Saturday's slot at VOID's party at The Shelter.

City Weekend: You just got back from a European tour - where did you play? Which countries, which venues? How did euro crowds ... Read more »