"Sure, the first Velvet Underground album only sold ten thousand copies, but of those ten thousand people, every last one of them went out and formed a band." Make it ten thousand and one: Beijing band Carsick Cars have the too-cool dissonant drone down right. They're playing tonight, along with more experimental act Xiao He, at this launch party for Matthew Niederhauser's eponymous book of photographs of the cross-cultural subculture that birthed them.