Joyside are Beijing's gift to the glam rock tradition at its trashiest. Storming out of the city's club scene in the early '00s, the group unloaded a loud, fast, and snotty attack littered with buzzsaw axe riffs and twangy surf licks thumbtacked to manic drums forever teetering on the verge of collapse. Deeply inspired by the downtown jive of the New York Dolls' David Johansen, shaggy frontman Bian Yuan is a self-loathing punk who belches and slurs about the dead-end joys of endless booze and partying. If ever there were a rock band with a one-way ticket straight into the gutter, it's these guys.