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Into pioneering electronic music? Or maybe super-underground black metal? Well it’s a good weekend to be in Chicago. Tonight Kraftwerk plays a massive 3-D concert at the Riviera, and this weekend we get the fifth installment of the Cathedral of the Black Goat festival. Good weekend if you have tickets already, that is, because both are sold out. Sorry guys.
Chinese Sonic Youth enthusiasts Carsick Cars make two appearances in town on Friday: a free in-store at Permanent followed by a later gig at the Burlington. Leor Galil says, “Carsick Cars are unabashed fans of Sonic Youth, probably the best-known group with roots in that explosion of NYC postpunk—the Ministry of Culture yanked Carsick Cars off a Sonic Youth concert in Beijing in 2007, but later that year they got to tour Europe with their idols. Carsick Cars’ brand-new third album, 3 (Maybe Mars), sometimes sounds like Sonic Youth’s more hypnotic material, while other tunes have a strong garage-rock swing; ‘Wild Grass,’ for example, starts out like a jangly 60s garage burner, then bleeds into a psychedelic jam. With help from coproducers Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3) and Hamish Kilgour (the Clean), Carsick Cars manage to combine transcendent beauty and ruthless catchiness—the engrossing, ethereal guitars on ‘White Song’ seem to bring time to a halt.”
