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Hitting a High Note

On September 21, 2019, several hundred people gathered in a small music venue in Beijing to hear a Chinese band perform. When members of Click#15, a band of three playing funk music, appeared on the wooden stage, the wild screams from the crowd made it hard to imagine that some months ago, this band was hardly known.

Ma Xin, a 27-year-old working in Internet advertising, was one of the crazy fans. She got to know them from a variety show in the summer of 2019, , which brought some of the lesser-known indie and rock bands to the fore.

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