Hot on the heels of Modern Sky‘s Sing for China 15 stop tour across the US (some comments and review to follow shortly), Maybe Mars are packing their bags and heading off to the home of country music, blues and techno.
This November, the Beijing indie label will take five of its key artists on a tour across the eastern US. Between November 5th and 19th, PK14, Carsick Cars, White, Xiao He, and Snapline will play a string of dates in New York, Washington DC, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Illinois. The tour will be centred around the photography exhibition that Matthew Niederhauser will be presenting in New York. Matthew is an American born photographer that has documented much of the rise of Maybe Mars and D-22 over the last 2 years, and we have an interview coming up with Matthew later this week as well.
The Beijing music scene has attracted copious amounts of international media attention. Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, The Guardian, all have to some extent covered elements of the emerging Beijing scene. Many of these stories paint Beijing’s musicians as an elite underground creative network skirting cultural and creative controls imposed by some fierce, red leviathan. An outside observer sometimes must ask whether it’s WHAT these musicians are doing (as opposed to WHERE they’re doing it) that makes them interesting, catchy, viral if you will. Of course, we totally dig the music and consume it like fruit juice in the morning. But the question reminds: will America?
Big ups to Maybe Mars for the great idea. For current information, visit HERE
