If you were thinking twice about heading out to the Capital Steel Factory in Shijingshan for INTRO on Saturday (May 25), here's a reason to go: We're giving away four pairs of tickets for someone to get their dance on to all that dubstep, drum and bass and trap (see the lineup for the main stage and the bass stage).

This year – in order to give everyone more time to concentrate on drinking at our Reader Bar & Club Awards Party – we've decided to announce some of the winners before the big event. Yesterday we announced the winners in six categories, here and here. The next three categories are: Best Cheap Drinks, Best Happy Hour and Best Value. You can see which bars have come up trumps below.

This year – in order to give everyone more time to concentrate on drinking at our Reader Bar & Club Awards Party – we've decided to announce some of the winners before the big event. Earlier today we announced the winners in our first three categories. The next three categories are: Best Place to Play Pool, Best Quiz Night and Best Sports Bar. You can see which bars have come up trumps below.

Soundcloud is one of the best ways to discover new music on the net and there are plenty of Beijing-based acts and Beijing-themed tracks to check out on the world's fastest growing music sharing site. This new blog series will give you a mixed bag of the music that Beijingers are uploading to the web. There could be a bit of everything from remixes to bluegrass to folk to metal to broken beats and probably some genres that are too new to name. Check it out.

Pity, but in hindsight, maybe it was inevitable: Beijing Dongpai Folk Festival (née Ditan Folk Festival) has become the first festive casualty of the year. Signs of trouble were already on the horizon after organizers revealed that they had to scale back from their initial plans to stage it in Chaoyang Park last month.