the Beijinger

After giving you a taste of the main stage and bass stage lineups here's the final installment in our Beijing Soundcloud run up to INTRO 2013. The Disobedience stage will be set up in a very cool industrial setting, facing an old railway and locomotive. Enjoy the tracks and see you on that train tomorrow.

Earlier this week we posted photos from our 2013 Bar and Clubs Awards at Galaxy SOHO last weekend. A video crew was on hand during the festivities filming the action and the video has been posted to Youku by none other than SOHO China head Pan Shiyi, who also shared it on his Weibo account.

You can watch the video, which features many familiar faces from Beijing's nightlife scene, a few of the Chocolate dancers and a cameo by event host and Gung Ho and Lush Marketing guru Rich Akers, above or view it on Youku here.

Take a look at the all-new format of the Beijinger magazine here or on Issuu.com right now. We'll tell you more about the exciting changes we've made when the print magazine hits the streets, but you can get a look at June's launch issue right now. If you've got an iPad, download the PDF. We think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

On the same day that Beijing taxi-booking app users shuddered when Shenzhen banned them, the municipal government began public consultation on how best to address cab drivers' complaints about low wages.

There was scandal at the Cannes Film Festival this year. The Vice President of the China Film Group, Zhang Qiang, was robbed there last week. Thieves broke into his beach residence and gutted the room of the poor bugger’s possessions.

Beijing bar scene stalwart Karl Long is set to join Great Leap Brewing as its new bar and floor manager on June 1, Great Leap's Carl Setzer and Long confirmed to the Beijinger on Thursday.

Long, who has 11 years' experience in China including four at Paddy O'Shea's, will team up with Great Leap, which won seven awards at the Beijinger 10th Annual Reader Bar & Club Awards (RBCA), "to do all that stuff I don't know how to do," said Setzer, the surprise winner of the Bar Awards "Personality of the Year," implying Long will handle front-of-the-house.

"Now hopefully Great Leap will be known for having 'the nice Karl,' which will balance my lovely personality out to neutral. Honored to have him on board," Setzer said.

“The emperor … looked over the fires burning the city. He returned to the Palace of Surpassing Brightness and wrote a ‘Scarlet Edict.’ … Having done this, he called for wine, and when he had drunk several cups, sighed heavily.”

...and thus ended the Ming Dynasty, as described in the imperial archives.

These fires of 1644 were set by Li Zicheng’s rebel army, not errant cigarette butts thrown around by Palace employees. Nonetheless, The Forbidden City is now taking action in order to prevent another ruinous fire.

Welcome to an experimentally early edition of Talking Pints. One event dominates the nightscape this weekend as INTRO 2013 prepares for a reboot at Capital Steel Factory. But this weekend could just as easily be notable for the UEFA Champions League Final which comes around in the wee hours of Sunday morning. Or perhaps you've been waiting on The Warriors event? No? Maybe, like me, you've just been waiting for the Wet T-shirt Contest at Juicy. Whatever the highlight of your weekend is, it's almost here.

So we erm, "revealed" ... just a little after the fact, that Shabazz Palaces will be here in July, and Japandroids will be stopping by in August. This is great news. If you're not into either of them, then you should be. And you can start by checking out their Soundclouds below.