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

Before we get on with this weekend's live music preview (and there's plenty going on by the way), here's a quick round-up of some recent music news we thought we'd share with you.

Neocha, a social networking site dedicated to 'connecting China's creative communites', has just released the fifth edition of their webzine Blow Up. The 'zine, a flash-enabled interactive venture, operates under only one tenet: that the webzine can only be composed of "100% original creative works put together specifically for Blow Up".

Neocha's Sean Leow drops knowledge on asiascoutnetwork.com: "[T]here is a scene of more pure or underground hip-hop in Shanghai that stays true to the original style and sound of hip-hop, which was started in the Bronx during the 1970s. Additionally, there is a related genre of what can be called Chinese hip-hop ('嘻哈' in Chinese) which exists in between and overlaps with both the commercial 'pop-rap' and underground hip-hop genres." [Source]

Danwei points us to this new song by Beijing band DEFY, entitled "I don't watch CCTV" [the song is embedded after the jump because we couldn't turn off the auto-play]. Here's some of the lyrics:

I don't watch CCTV

Continue reading "Defy: I don't watch CCTV"

UPDATE: Following the launch of NEXT 2.0, this entry now has the new player embedded below.