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Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from now until Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!)

Holy crazy week, Batman. Shanghai is teeming to the brim with talks and forums, tweetups and meetups, and some awesome music peppered throughout these next few days. To see what didn't make this week's Pencil This In (oh yes, there's more), check out the Shanghaiist calendar. If anyone so much as thinks the words, "I have nothing to do tonight," may an angry Haibao come down and smite you.

A new Changning district bar will be rounding out a trifecta of cool places to go on Xinfu lu (the other two being, of course, established indie outposts LOgO and Anar): it's called DADA and it's the pet project of Antidote dude Michael Ohlsson.

Ah, Shanghai on the weekend. Once a desert for those of us interested in catching an act or two, now so bursting at the seams with great music that we virtually spread ourselves thin every Friday and Saturday trying to take it all in. So we've looked through what's going on and picked the events we think sound the best.

Music lovers can get their weekend started early tonight with three great events going on around the city.

Known in Shanghai for their "rock you like a hurricane" style, Rogue Transmission (listen to them here) has promised everybody something completely different for their set tonight at Anar. That's right... they're stripping their songs of the electric, twiddling with their rhythms and keeping it cool for a one night only psychdubacousticwhat? set: an Evening with Rogue Transmission.

Yes, we know we just went through one festival, but we can't help getting a little psyched for the next one already.

Friday marks off the start of a festival bonanza! The biggest music event going on is the Zhenjiang MIDI Festival, which will feature dozens of Chinese bands - both established and up-and-comers rocking out for three days in Zhenjiang. Sadly, Zhenjiang is a good two-and-a-half hours away and some of us are just way too busy (or way too lazy) to make it out that far. Luckily, Split-Works has brought us some great music worth staying in Shanghai for.

Just when you thought it was safe to enjoy a slowly growing and community-built live music scene, something comes out of nowhere to shake things up again. YYT will no doubt be packed for Re-TROS this weekend. Does that mean Shanghai needs a mid-sized venue? Probably yes. Does that mean it's sustainable to run gigs in a mid-sized venue 4-5 nights a week? Probably not (though we wish it did). Does it mean that venues can afford to start making ridiculous demands of promoters? Definitely not.