Are you ready for a wonderful weekend? Well let's kick it off with some free vinyl and swag from an absolute killer band called Carsick Cars, a revolutionary noise/punk/indie band coming all the way from
Beijing, China, who will be playing in Detroit on 3/29 at The Berkley Front.
They're promoting their new album, 3, which will be released Feb 28th on
Maybe Mars.
Formed in 2005, almost from the very beginning Carsick Cars has
been at the center of the musical explosion in Beijing and has received a
mixture of snarling opprobrium, especially from some of their elders, and
near-fanatic enthusiasm from their rapidly growing fan base among culturally
sophisticated but alienated young Chinese around the country.
Their 20-city tour of China in March 2009 with label-mates The Gar has
already passed into Chinese musical history as one of the key events in the
development of the Chinese independent music scene, and their shows indicate how
for many in the young audience Carsick Cars “belongs” to them as much as the
young Bob Dylan “belonged” to his fans in the mid 1960s. Besides being one of
the most admired and written-about bands in China, they have also received a
huge amount of attention from musicians and critics in Europe and North America,
having played in numerous festivals, most notably All Tomorrow’s Parties
in the UK and the Primavera Sound in Barcelona, and toured with Sonic
Youth in Europe.
Their second studio album was the long-awaited You Can Listen, You Can
Talk a follow up of two years of explosive and almost joyful anger evoked in
their first album, Panda Noise. Produced by P.K.14 frontman Yang Haisong,
their first CD threw out into the Chinese indie scene some of its most iconic
songs, including “Zhongnanhai”, widely seen as the anthem of disenfranchised
Chinese youth, and “Rock and Roll Hero”, a standard for younger bands.
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