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Monday… Tuesday… whatever. It’s editorial policy at MP3 Monday headquarters to rock ‘n’ roll all night long and party every day, so sometimes we’re a day late with these things. Alas…

Anyways, looking ahead for music stuff this week, here’s a couple shows you might want to think about hitting up if you’re not completely sick of music at this point. Hip hop, indie rock, hardcore – something for everyone.

Friday, September 23 @ Mao Livehouse: The Hip Hop Connection – The Big Show

The Hip Hop Connection is a series of three hip hop shows, organized by local lyricist ChaCha and some gal called Cookie to bring together practitioners of the illin’ arts from all over China. MC’s, DJ’s, producers, musicians from all over China – the north meets the south -- to share stages and styles under the banner of unity. In the creatively contentious and commercially struggling world of forward-thinking hip hop in China, this is a pretty massive undertaking -- a real milestone sort of thing.
And it’s a big line-up. Main act is FeiBao And His Big Band -- a twelve-piece hip hop act coming in from Guangzhou. That’s something you don’t see every day. Along with that, is a big name from Beijing, MC Webber -- he’s doing a live set, along with IN-3, another well-known act from Beijing (pictured at the top). Rounding out the special guests is two MCs, FengXiao and Jie, representing the (relatively) younger generation of Chinese hip hop. DJs Ceezy and Munk representing the Shanghai side of thing on the decks.



Big line-up of Chinese hip hop talent from all over the country this Friday at Mao Livehouse. If you want to check out what’s new and emerging in China, this is your chance. And also, check out their Thurday night party -- open mic opportunity for local MCs and producers. Details here.

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Tuesday, September 20 @ Yuyintang: Invasionen

Coming in from Sweden and playing a week-night show at Yuyintang as part of a greater China tour, Invasionen is Denis Lyxzen’s new band. He’s the singer from Refused. And also The (International) Noise Conspiracy. If you grew up punk rock, that’s basically all you need to know. It’s been more than a decade since Refused’s The Shape of Punk to Come came out, and pretty much across the board in punk and hardcore subgenres, few bands command the amount of r-e-s-p-e-c-t as Refused still does today for changing people’s perceptions on what punk can be and the musical boundaries the genre can still bring down. The new beat! The new beat!

Building off a lifetime pass for Refused, Lyxzen went on to form TiNC, a long-running, pretty good, and successful band in their own right, and then just recently this new band called Invasionen, which seems a bit of a more internally-focused project from the Swedish anarchist. Music is a bit more restrained, albeit not without a jagged edge. But you can have a listen yourself.


Invasionen is touring through China under the aegis of PK14 singer, Yan Haisong, and apparently the two frontmen have had a long-standing friendship dating back to when TiNC came to China way back when.

But yeah, this dude sang “New Noise”. So there you go. THIS SHOW IS TONIGHT at Yuyintang. Tonight, man. Starts 10pm. Cover: 40rmb.

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Saturday, September 24 @ Yuyintang: The Instigation

Lead singer Simon plays his last show. That’s it for him. He’s going wherever to some place that isn’t Shanghai and doing something that isn’t The Instigation. Head on down one last time and tell him they sound like Judge. Music is a fusion of jazz fusion and fusion jazz -- pretty jazzy. Taste the goods.


Click here for more tunes. Keep an eye out for their disc at the show.

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