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We've told you before of Indie Heart Attack, the weekly music event at Not Me which gets a bunch of Shanghai's music-loving mavens to show off their playlists. This Thursday, they're welcoming former Shanghaiist contributor Jake Newby to man the tables!

Anke Stockburger and Han Fei, who were the first people who emailed us about free tickets. Thanks! Your names will be on the guest list - just show up and enjoy the show! As for the rest of you who emailed in, we highly recommend you come anyway. The Toxic Avenger (myspace here) is an awesome act to catch. He'll be playing at Not Me (21 Dongping Lu) on Friday night, starting at 10pm. Check out this and other shows you can see around Shanghai this weekend in our midweek music preview.

But first! An announcement to make. One of the acts we're most excited about to catch this weekend - The Toxic Avenger - has generously offered us two free tickets to give to Shanghaiist readers. That means YOU GUYS.

Helping to kickstart the Halloween weekend is Portland, Oregon-based electronic dance/performance art duo YACHT. Originally the solo project of Jona Bechtolt (who also contributed his electronic wizardry to indie-pop group The Blow), YACHT grew by one in 2008, inducting Claire L. Evans as a full member, just in time to add her no nonsense vocals to their newest album See Mystery Lights.

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

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Life Journey (旅行团), a Modern Sky rock band originating from Guangxi, closed out the lineup Saturday night at the newly opened Mao Livehouse in Red Town (formerly WTF, Candy Club, etc.). The free show was well-attended, with an estimated 800 bodies filling the vast audience space.

Mochipet joins Antidote for a China tour, hitting Shanghai's Shelter club on Saturday, Aug.15, 2009. Mochipet is a renowned electronic music producer on a world tour. His style is mad eclectic and delightfully hard to define, tongue-in-check and always ahead of the game. We swapped emails with him during a rare week of rest in his California home.

So Linkin Park is performing this Saturday, August 15, at Shanghai Stadium (if this news somehow caught you by surprise, you can still buy tickets either at the Shanghai culture site or on mypiao, which lets you choose your seat) and as little as we personally appreciate their music, we did want to point out the excellent job they've been doing warming up their Chinese fans.

As China's indie music scene has grown ever larger and more varied, blogs have popped up to keep us English-language speakers in the know. We've long relied on China Music Radar and Rock in China Wiki, as well as Kungfuology (both Andy Best and now Jake Newby) and SmartShanghai and a host of other sites we're probably just forgetting right now - feel free to add them in comments.

            

Jeff Lang wowed the perpetually overcrowded Yuyintang with his folk/blues pickin' on Saturday. Using a mixture of pedals and a nifty food drum pad, Lang composes intricate and modern renditions of classic blues and traditional folk songs.

These Are Powers, an American collaboration between ex-Liars bassist Pat Noecker, singer Anna Barie and drummer/producer Bill Salas will be hitting Zhijiang Dream Factory as part of a Maybe Mars lineup with P.K.14 and Carsick Cars on Saturday.

So we always get pretty excited about the bands Split Works brings over, but this has got us literally jumping up and down in our rooms in glee. The Handsome Furs, the indie rock duo project of Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner and his wife Alexei Perry, are going to hit up Yu Yin Tang on September 5th. Tickets will be 80RMB at the door, and 70RMB if you book it early through Taobao or by email. Opening acts are yet to be decided, but heck - we don't care who's up on stage with them... the Handsome Furs are coming. THE HANDSOME FURS ARE COMING!

Decide for yourself when they play their first show in Shanghai at LOgO this Friday. As an added bonus to our Shanghaiist readers, we're giving away four of their CDs - just send an email to contest.giveaway (at) shanghaiist (dot) com with the words "Shanghaiist Random K(e) CD Giveaway" in the subject line and your name in the body. The first four to send an email to us with that info will get a CD.

Remember the Pepsi band contest and how it ended up being sort of a sham? Here's a quick refresher courtesy of local music aficionado Andy Best:

In case you missed out on the third edition of Shanghai bus-and-beer-fest Get in the Van back in April, Spin correspondent mrjaymark has now put up a fun video documenting the event. Playing that night were The Dropkicks, The Rogue Transmission, Boys Climbing Ropes, 24 Hours and The Gar. See full report here.

Did you miss the Up from the Underground screening? That's too bad! But no matter: Daedalum Films has put it online just for us.

DnB promoters Phreaktion are celebrating their 10th year in Asia on Friday (they blew the candles out on their 3rd year in Shanghai last November) and to make sure this birthday's extra-special, they've booked the biggest name in Drum and Bass - Andy C.

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.

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Daedalum Films hosted a screening of Up From the Underground, a documentary short about the Shanghainese band Hard Queen.

If you haven't gotten enough of Hard Queen, after our interview, their new EP and the awesome release party at YYT, then make sure you catch the May 9 screening of Daedalum Films' Hard Queen documentary, Up from the Underground.

       

Nanjing rockers Re-TROS (Rebuilding the Rights of Statues) played the penultimate date of their recent tour to promote their new album, Watch Out! Climate has Changed, Fat Mum Rises, at Yu Yin Tang on Saturday. Known for their energetic live performances, the trio did not disappoint.

                        

We were lucky enough to catch Hedgehog, one of China's finest bands, rocking their short and spiky pop-rock at Yu Yin Tang this Saturday. We hope they come down from Beijing to visit us again soon!

If you're not already suffering Midi-fatigue, the latest installment in this year's festival soap opera series has arrived courtesy of the Midi school - who've done us the favor of posting the proposed lineup for the Zhenjiang festival.