DOWNLOAD: Nerve City - The Armory (MP3)
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Richmond, Virginia's Nerve City [are] another impeccably morose, yet captivating home-recording outfit that has also made the leap into performing live shows. With a brand new 10" EP entitled I Fucked Death, released [in May] on Kill Shaman Records, Nerve City already have the rare ability to crawl under your skin with their gloomy yet humanizing songs that echo with the cold jangly chills of death's imminent arrival, and it's never felt so good. Like the soundtrack to watching a funeral parade slowly drive by, Nerve City nail their simplistic songs with the grace of a black angel falling from the sky, yet never come off as contrived. Sharing a sound and execution similar to their friends/cohorts Medication from Connecticut, Nerve City channel an indescribable eeriness that devolves and reemerges with each stirring song, creating such an atmosphere of sonic paralysis that is nothing short of hypnotic. Look for a new Nerve City 7" EP on HoZac [out now], as well as their debut LP on Sweet Rot soon. [Victim of Time]

Nerve City play a free show at Bruar Falls in Brooklyn tonight (1/18). Erostratus, Datus, Future Lives (ex-Band of Horses), and Quickly Quietly are also on the bill.

Why? @ Bowery Ballroom in 2008 (more by Leia Jospe)

tonight in NYC
* DANCE
* Tiesto @ Hammerstein
* Samara Lubelski @ Sound Fix Records
* Bear Hands & Tony Castles @ Bruar Falls
* Bloodshot Records BBQ @ The Bell House
* Holy Ghost! (DJ) @ Tribeca Grand Hotel
* Sing for China tour @ Santos Party House
* Marva Whitney, The Sweet Divines @ Southpaw
* The Rifles, Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ Union Hall
* Ornette Coleman @ Lincoln Center's Rose Theater
* Phoenix, Passion Pit @ Central Park Rumsey Playfield
* Why?, Owen Weaver, Flexible Music @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
* Boogie Boarder, Mother Fletcher, Forest City @ Union Pool
* These Arms Are Snakes, DD/MM/YYYY, Rk Wins, Orphan @ Mercury Lounge
* Screaming Females, Cheap Ventilators, The Weird Fantasy Band & more @ DBA
* The Giraffes, Goes Cube, The Midnight Show @ Studio at Webster Hall
* Dub Trio, Skeletonbreath, Bottle Up & Go @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
* Shellshag, Uzi Rash, Battle Avenue Tea Club, Weird Weather, Haru Bangs, The Pharmacy @ Don Pedro
* The Electric Tickle Machine, Zoos Of Berlin, North Highlands, Dream Diary, Werewolves @ Market Hotel
* Derrick Adams and Mickalene Thomas (AKA DJ Professor of Music and Dean of Admissions), Hercules and Love Affair, Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin @ MoMA (Benefit dance party)
* Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Shilpa Ray, Kendrick Strauch (from Harlem Shakes), Rebecca Schiffman, Sarah & Michelle Cagianese, Your Nature @ Kidd Yellin aka Red Hook Labs
* New Languages Fest w/ Akoya Afrobeat Orchestra, Shaikh/Peterson/Formanek, John Hollenbeck & Theo Bleckmann @ McCarren Hall

The band Future Lives who open for These Arms Are Snakes tonight at Merc is new band from Rob Hampton who was in one of Band of Horses' incarnations.

WAVVES + Black Lips = drama.

Video from last night's Rorschach show at The Charleston, below...

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