Live China Music revisits that adolescent exuberance and youthful vitality of the dog days of summer with a rocking evening of earnest melodies and distorted fervor courtesy of a trio of bands all too familiar with plodding through the humidity. On the bill –young scrappy Hangzhou emo rockers autumn rush whose angst-ridden nevertheless starry-eyed melodies have undeniable spring to them that’s hard to resist. The ever younger Me & My Sandcastle, a cross between a more sincere Mac Demarco and a slow tempo city pop band, who will be performing for the last time this year before their singer heads back to Canada. And finally, the ever reliable Flip House, a ‘blend of Y2K pop-punk and Midwest emo featuring catchy chants and bleeding heart lyrics in Chinese and English’ whose cathartic and bittersweet sound just make you nostalgic for the messy times we (thought we) left behind.