Carsick Cars self titled is good, alt rock reminds me of Sonic Youth.
Omnipotent Youth Society is great also, it has strings and guitars, don't really know What to label it as
China
William Sanders
Brandon Long
XIAO MEI MEI
Mason Rivera
左小祖咒 is the coolest
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also 二手玫瑰
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avoid shitty run of the mill indie rock + cui fucking jian
Parker Barnes
Lang Lang.
Mason Fisher
this
Chase Brown
Logan Campbell
>Modern Chinese music is just a bad mirror of western music
What do you mean by 'modern'?
And it's not really 'western music' in the sense that all popular music in the west originated with african americans.
James Thompson
Faye Wong
Alexander Myers
This was hard to watch. The music's great, but how the fuck has her fingers not fallen off? This gives me the ickeys.
Jacob Perez
Bad mirror of J-pop and the like. Sometimes, China does feel like a bootlegged Japan to me.
They kind of have everything we know from those countries, but cheaper. Or worse. Or less.
Although they don't have a porn industry for example.