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New Year's Metal Night concert @ Mao Livehouse

Tonight's the last metal rock party before the Spring Festival, so get your devil horn thrashing out now before you skip town. Chinese bands taking the stage include Luojishikong, Dark Haze, Nower, Taluoshengtu, Suoma, and Heihu.

When: 8:30 pm, tonight

Where: No.111 Gulou Dongdajie, Dongcheng district

Tickets: 50 yuan (advance); 60 yuan (door)

Contact: 6402-5080

Contraplans and OOC concert @ Yugong Yishan

It's BJ meets UK tonight at Yugong Yishan. Contraplans is a Beijing-based band holding down a British folksy yet punky style. Chinese band OOC (short for "Out of Control") formed in early 2008. They did a nationwide tour based just on a five-track EP in 2010, and released their first full-length LP last fall.

When: 9 pm, tonight

Where: No.3-2 Zhangzizhong Lu, Dongcheng district

Tickets: 50 yuan

Contact: 6404-2711

Nordox Nordic Documentary Film Festival @ UCCA Cinema

UCCA presents the best entries from the 2012 Nordox Nordic Documentary Film Festival. The films portray bizarre realities, such as when Icelandic comedians become politicians, Swedish entrepreneurs become North Korean jeans producers or nuclear power becomes waste that will outlive us all. For the North Korea junkies out there, Saturday's lineup has both the Swedish jean makers in Maneuvers in the Dark and Swedish director Magnus B?rt?s' Madame and Little Boy, which explores the story of a South Korean actress kidnapped in the '70s to perform in North Korean films.

When: February 2 to 3

Where: 798 Art Zone, No.2 Jiuxianqiao Lu, Chaoyang district

Tickets: 15 yuan, free for members

Contact: 5780-0200