Carsick Cars was scheduled to open for Sonic Youth in Beijing in April, 2007, but their performance was canceled on short notice. However, in August the same year they joined Sonic Youth for their european tour in Prague and Vienna.
Snapline become, almost overnight it seems, perhaps Beijing’s fastest rising young band. From being little more than a side project of Carsick cars’ drummer Li Qing and bass player Levis, in the last year they have taken on an identity all of their own, earned full page interviews in the local media and released their first 7” single in the US.