Andy Best and Cameron Hirst of Temple Gates feature the very first edition of their show Friday Night Underground which offers us a slice of Shanghai's underground live music scene with female band The Happy Strings performing at Windows Tembo live music... ...full story at Shanghaiist
from Shanghaiist on Tue, Apr 15 2008
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