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Where: Tem­ple
When: Sat 18 Feb, 21:00
How Much: 40RMB
Who: The Bar­ba­cans, Per­pet­ual Motion Machine (More Info)
Why: This Town Tour­ing has brought some awe­some acts to Bei­jing before, includ­ing The Vasco Era, Die Die Die, The On Fires and Arcane Saints. So it stands to rea­son that Ital­ian garage punk group The Bar­ba­cans should be another awe­some addi­tion to their lineup. And if their Douban is any­thing to go by, they should be a fun night. Lace up your Con­verse and get ready to do a lit­tle indie head­bang­ing, because this band will have the crowd thrash­ing. They’re play­ing twice in Bei­jing this week­end, but the show at Tem­ple has a bet­ter opener — Per­pet­ual Motion Machine, who I saw for the first time at the Friend or Foe show and was thor­oughly impressed (and were noth­ing like the other open­ers, Deadly Cra­dle Death and Yan Tiao). Check out their stuff on Douban.

This week seems to be the week of hard rock, with what should be an awe­some gig on — of all days — Sun­day, at Mao Live, with Flam­ing Heat, Los Crasher and more for a night of highly enter­tain­ing 80s hair metal night, start­ing at 8:30PM, 50/40RMB. Exit A, if you’re into that sort of thing, are hav­ing their first EP launch at Yugong Yis­han on Fri­day, 9PM, 50/30RMB; con­grats to them! And New York’s hard­core punk group Back­track plays at Mao Live on Fri­day, 8PM, 60/50RMB. And for yet another hard rock night, check out Impact Night at Mao Live with TooKoo, New­Tank, Chi­na­town and more, Sat­ur­day 8PM, 70/50RMB.