Want some Grandmaster Flash tickets for Saturday night? Unfortunately, you've already missed the boat on our giveaway, but you can still book advance tickets through Sendmetickets.com or just try your luck at Yugong Yishan on Saturday (Apr 28). We managed to hook up an interview with the hip-hop legend, so read on for that and a visual reminder of why you need to see Flash in Beijing.

“Money in My Pocket” by Dennis Brown.

Emotional reggae music, not digital at all, with a kind of “riddim” that even makes the non-dancers dance.

Most of us would be intimidated by anyone brazen enough to scream “beat on the brat with a baseball bat” into a microphone. But most of us are not Marky Ramone. This is a man who says that “joining the Ramones wasn’t daunting at all” because he was already a pro. Marky told us about botching his first big audition, and holding his own with the rest of the Ramones.

Café background music is supposed to help us unwind, not write blockbuster movie scripts. But when Beijing bistro Navena Cafe blared a throbbing ballad called “Drenched” one afternoon last year, Hong Kong rom-com auteur Pang Ho-Cheung started writing a new screenplay then and there as his coffee order percolated. Eventually, he found the song’s source: a Myspace page belonging to Vancouver-based, Harbin-born songstress Qu Wanting.

Rob Swift plays Yugong Yishan on March 15 as part of the JUE Music + Art Festival 2012, and our friends over at JUE and Three Chord Truth have given us two tickets to give away. First, check out our interview with the master turntablist.