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Up Shibor creek with Michael Pettis

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Car Sick Cars: The First Band to Break Open the Music Scene

Car Sick Cars is a band on your record label you sent us to cut. They started in 2005, 2006 and they've become very well known within China. One of their songs, Jun Nan Hai, is sort of the unofficial anthem of the independent and alternative music scene in China. Michael: Car Sick Cars were really the first band that had such a big impact on the local young so someone like Shulong can be placed in the same category as others of their heroeslike Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth or Vixibargale from Mises and Noibat.

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