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Live Music This Weekend: Shanghai Night Fever, Rustic and Joker

This weekend is a big 'un for local bands and it's all taking place down at Yuyintang. We don't like to a show such a bias towards the one venue, but honestly, it has to be the place to go this weekend for live music. We seem to say that quite a lot... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Fri, Jul 10 2009

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