Year of the Cockroach

By Dan, Jan 2nd, 2008 | In Nightlife

While 2007 may have officially been the year of the golden pig, Shanghai's rock scene better resembled the resilience of a cockroach. Sure, it doesn't seem like a particularly glamorous mascot for a city that considers itself to be the capital of the new world, but the roach's trademark adaptability and indestructibility are the paramount attributes of this metaphor for describing the past year in rock music.

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