Friday, Saturday & Sunday @ Crystal Bridge
Beerkraze is back for its 9th edition, and this time it's moving into a much bigger home. The craft beer festival takes over Crystal Bridge 晶耀虹桥 for two full weekends in October, bringing together 100+ craft beers, international food, DJs, tastings, games and two outdoor stages. The new venue is right on top of Loushanguan Road Metro Station, on Lines 2 and 15 — one stop from Zhongshan Park — so getting there is considerably easier than some of Beerkraze's previous locations. Read on
Friday - Sunday @ Biyun Sunshine Ground
The Biyun Beer Festival returns to Pudong for three days of beer, food, live music, and family activities. The event features more than 40 beer brands, food stalls, a craft market, children's activities, and a 66-meter communal table with beer games. Admission is free.
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Friday, Saturday & Sunday @ SANGHA Retreat by OCTAVE (Suzhou)
Need a reason to escape the city this autumn? Head to Yangcheng Lake for the 12th Healing Arts Festival, a three-day wellbeing gathering at SANGHA Retreat by OCTAVE in Suzhou, running October 16–18, 2026. Expect 150+ workshops, live healing music, performances, talks, immersive sensory experiences and a Heritage & Future Craft Market featuring 80+ wellbeing and cultural brands, with plenty of lakeside space to slow down between it all. Read on
Friday - Sunday @ ROJO Art & Culture Space
A public programme during Shanghai Fashion Week at ROJO Art & Culture Space, bringing together fashion, sport, music, art, food and community through exhibitions, activities and live music.
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Friday @ Bellagio Shanghai
German electronic music duo andhim headline CASA ISLA · Island House, a rooftop sunset party at Bellagio by MGM Shanghai on October 16. Presented by VØLT BPM × Another Dimension, the event runs from 4pm to 10pm, with sets from andhim, Jason Yu and Xeena, taking guests from afternoon drinks through sunset and into the evening. Tickets include access to the after party.
Saturday @ POP American Brasserie
Space Panda brings the final HORIZON rooftop party of the year to POP at Three on the Bund, with Azerbaijani DJ Nazrin headlining an afternoon-to-midnight music session overlooking the Bund skyline. Expect outdoor beats, sunset views and city lights, with one welcome drink included in the ticket.
Thursday - Saturday @ Shanghai Oriental Art Center
French choreographer Rachid Ouramdane teams up with the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève for OUTSIDER, an extreme contemporary dance production making its Asian premiere in Shanghai. With 21 dancers and four high-wire performers moving between the floor and suspended ropes, the production explores balance, instability and the limits of the human body through a constantly shifting stage.
Thursday @ Jazz at Lincoln Center Shanghai
Zhu Mang Quartet pays tribute to Jazz legend Thelonious Monk with a new quartet interpretation of his classic works. Zhu Mang is joined by Artem on bass, Guojun Yu on drums and Toby Senior Vega on percussion, bringing together piano, bass, drums and percussion.
Friday @ Shanghai Oriental Art Center
Anoushka Shankar makes her Shanghai debut with a concert spanning classical, contemporary, and world music traditions. Joined by an ensemble of acclaimed musicians, she will perform selections from her Chapters trilogy alongside works from across her career, including music inspired by her father Ravi Shankar and collaborations with Norah Jones.
Friday & Saturday @ Shanghai Grand Theatre
Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos brings My Fierce Ignorant Step, a minimalist contemporary dance work performed by ten dancers. Inspired by the Greek epic choral work Axion Esti, the piece explores human connection and collective strength through synchronized movement, breath, live vocals and a stripped-back stage.
Friday @ Shanghai Concert Hall
French string quartet Quatuor Van Kuijk brings its Masterworks program to Shanghai, tracing 300 years of string quartet repertoire through works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Debussy, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Smetana, Bartók, Dvořák, Shostakovich and Schumann. For this Asian tour, violist Adrien Boisseau joins the quartet as a guest performer.
Friday @ The Pearl
Walking Down Basin Street brings the music of Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to The Pearl with a night of New Orleans-inspired jazz. Led by trombonist Rengen and featuring vocalist Song with Velvet Wharf Shanghai, the concert includes classics such as L-O-V-E, Cheek to Cheek, Basin Street Blues and When the Saints Go Marching In.
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Friday @ Reactor
OG electro producer and DJ, DMX Krew, plays a live set for promoter Antigen here in the biggest club in C-Park (maybe in China?), with support from SVBKVLT artists 33EMYBW and Gooooose plus some of the city's most reliable DJs, Zean and Jula Issa. DMX Krew is super fresh and recommended if you're into electro and sounds that make you wanna start poppin and lockin out on the floor.
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Friday @ Doop
Exit is out, Doop is in. They're opening this weekend with a huge lineup of good DJs playing b2b: Feiyi vs. Illsee, Chuan vs. Read on
Friday @ Wigwam
SY3 (pronounced “sigh”) are an LA-based Chinese-American trio mixing Cantopop, R&B and dreamy dance music, with inspiration from Hong Kong New Wave cinema and Y2K films like Suzhou River and Made in Hong Kong. They’re touring in support of their latest album, 梦游 Sleepwalker, which is out on the excellent label, Music From Memory, which has also released music from Yusu and Dam Funk. Support from Endy, Xiao Laba, and Coil Sprite (live). Read on
Friday - Sunday @ Green Station
CRUSH wine festival meets Heim's Heimliday day-party to take over Green Station for a three-day holiday weekend full of Chinese wine, food, vintage markets, lawn sessions, and day-to-night DJs, including late-night club situations in Heim. Starts at 2pm each day and free-flow wine starts at 98rmb (available via Social Supply's WeChat). The nightmode afterparties at Heim are ticketed, and features guest techno DJ Solma on Friday night. Read on
Friday @ Abyss Club
Belgian producer Ottoman Grüw makes music with ominous atmospheres and rhythms that sit somewhere between EBM, Techno, Electropunk and Ambient, with vocals throughout. Kind of like a darker, heavier version of The Hacker. Strong local support from LoD, K6V, Guso, and Peyötl.
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Saturday @ Caffé Yaya
The latest spot in the Yaya's/Nono's empire, a cafe on Wuding Lu specializing in affogato, spaghetti, and aperitivo, opens grandly this Saturday, with a jazz band playing sets from noon until four, followed by an aperitivo party with DJ Zheng from 4-8pm. Free entry.
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Saturday @ Yuyintown Basement
The 19Hz crew are back with another bass music party, this time focusing more on 140bpm sounds but also getting into some DnB and Jungle with a live MC – the one and only Jado. TIckets are a mere 50rmb including one drink. Solid!
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Oct 21 @ Heim
One of Shanghai's favorite DJs, Sam Tbd (fka Mau Mau), brings back his lacuna party, which is an early night deeper and headier house and techno music Tuesday dance party from 8pm-12am sharp, with non-alcoholic drink specials, and lots of smoke machine. "Dance to the end and be in bed by one". Music by Sam Tbd all night. Read on
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Will / LiveChinaMusic
Will Griffith is a photographer, videographer, writer, and music promoter living in Shanghai. He’s the founder of LiveChinaMusic - a platform dedicated to China's evolving underground music scene.
Thursday @ Yuyintown Cube
Ho Chi Minh City’s Saigon Soul Revival is on a mission to bring back the raw, live sound of 1960s and 70s Vietnamese rock and soul music. Sweet grooves that blend rock, soul, jazz, Vietnamese ballads, and traditional instrumentation, covering a ‘whole gamut of sounds that were popular during the Golden Era, from raw, heavy funk and psychedelia to slower, emotional ballads’. Vibrant, electric stuff that should make for a blast of a show. Read on
Friday @ Mosh Space Live House
A tribute and mashup of Manchester and Yangpu - two places that have birthed many young riotous acts - the Yanchester series returns to its roots tonight over at Mosh Space. Perhaps the most brazen and riotous of them all, Britpop favorites Burley Quay, born in self-proclaimed Yanchester, lead some truly delightful bands, including emo pop-punk outfit Tiny Times, freshly minted three-piece whydid (who fall somewhere between the evocative sounds of Friko and Yuck), and 1000 Failures, known for evoking some of the pop rock and emo scene’s best. Sounds like my kind of party.
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Saturday @ Yuyintown Cube
Instrumental rock heavyweights Prune Deer, who hail from Hong Kong, have been one of the leading figures down south. Known for their ‘unique mix of melodic guitar interplay, weaving intricate bass parts and the kind of tight, start-stop drums’, the band has plenty to give in their arsenal, leaning into their hazy ambience and math rock chops wherever they see fit.
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Sunday @ trigger
Patrons of the experimental and noise scene unite! trigger - run in part by some of the Shanghai experimental scene's leading figures, celebrates their three-year anniversary the only way they know how - with a whirlwind spread of noise, experimental, and avant-garde acts at their tiny little hub. The venue will put together six different, wildly chaotic collaborations featuring some of the scene’s most prolific characters - an onslaught of sounds and sights - an assault on the senses in the best possible way.
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Sunday @ Yuyintown
Stargazers, emo, noise rock, synth pop, and instrumental rock lovers converge on Yuyintown as the venue hosts their seasonal music festival, with bands utilizing both venues in C-Park. A delectable spread of bands with a knack for crafting stirring arrangements and angst-ridden jams, the lineup includes Suzhou’s mathy instrumental rockers Tengguang Agency, evocative indie soothsayers Nerve Passenger, spry noise pop hitmakers Autistic Radio, lean hard-hitting instrumental rockers no channel, but…, Hangzhou synth pop act Boarding Gate, and fellow synth pop outfit A Journey into Fantasy. A perfect opportunity to plug yourself into the local scene and see what’s up.
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Sunday @ VAS ear
Promoters New Noise is packing some heat this weekend with a hard-hitting double bill! Amenra, a Belgian extreme metal band that's as experimental and atmosphere-driven as it is impossibly heavy, brings their visceral, cathartic, and versatile sound rooted in doom, sludge, post-metal, and hardcore punk. Joining them are Harakiri for the sky - a post-metal duo from Austria who combine heavy, melodic riffage with punishing vocals - as reminiscent of My Bloody Valentine as they are of Gorgoroth. Read on
Sunday @ Coven by Cave
Rising Singapore songwriter, producer, and artist Shye showcases her dreamy slate of songs that blends her signature blend of wistful melodies, layered guitars, and deeply personal songwriting. For those digging the resurgence of dream-pop, alternative rock, and shoegaze across the globe (think Wisp), Shye may well be worth the hype - melancholic, bittersweet, and both intimate and expansive - balancing its moments of softness and vulnerability with larger waves of distortion and atmosphere. Support from emerging Chengdu shoegaze noise rock act Cigar Shoujo.
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Oct 20 @ Yongfoo Elite
YongFoo Élite welcomes Nathalie, President of Champagne Besserat de Bellefon, for an intimate champagne dinner in one of Shanghai's historic villas. Hosted by Lei, founder of BinKe Culture, Nathalie and Lori, owner of YongFoo Élite, the evening brings together champagne, Shanghai cuisine and stories around the table. Guests will taste six Besserat de Bellefon Champagnes, including Bleu Brut, Rosé Brut, Blanc de Noirs, Triple B 2015, Millésime 2013 and Cuvée des Moines Blanc de Blancs Millésime 2015. Read on
Oct 27 @ The Dome
Fresh white truffle takes the spotlight at THE DOME on October 27, with Chef Bulizo weaving its distinctive aroma through four highlights of an autumn omakase menu. The evening moves from delicate sea eel chawanmushi to an indulgent nigiri pairing sea urchin with seared M9 Wagyu, followed by M9 Wagyu sirloin hot pot in forest mushroom broth and the chef’s signature truffle rice course. Tableside truffle shaving adds a little theatre, with the aroma rising from the warm dishes as they’re served. Read on
Sunday @ La Barra
La Barra's El Paisa has a Sunday taco brunch deal goin down', with genuinely excellent tacos, free-flow drinks, and vinyl selections from FLO. 188rmb gets you a selection of tacos and three hours of free-flow dranks, plus complimentary Prosecco for ladies from 2-4pm. There's some other solid deals too, including 48rmb spritzes and a shrimp taco + a bacon bloody mary for 78rmb. Read on
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