Carsick Cars

Related Content

• The Peony Pavilion: Silken Spectacle
  January 11, 2012
• Live: Lee Ranaldo Plays It Straight At Glasslands
  December 19, 2011
• 'Silent Films/Live Guitars' w/ Kaki King+Lee Ranaldo
  January 4, 2012
• He Nan Flavor: Noodle on Down
  October 19, 2011
• As One Indonesian Family Goes, So Goes the Nation in Position Among the Stars
  September 14, 2011

More About

• Asia (Band)
• Beijing
• Manuel Gottsching
• Concerts and Tours
• Punk Rock

As the Beijing indie label Maybe Mars pulls into town to (perhaps) show us the future of rock music as a "Made in China" brand name this week (with shows at Glasslands and Columbia as well), the band most likely to succeed stateside remains Carsick Cars. Fronted by twentysomething guitarist Zhang Shouwang (who has performed with everyone from Elliott Sharp to Manuel Göttsching), the trio careens from spiky punk-pop to all-out noise bliss and back. Which means they sorta sound like Sonic Youth. Fitting, as they've opened for them as well. With PK14, Knyfe Hyts.
Sat., Nov. 7, 7 p.m., 2009