Horse Lords are a Baltimore-founded (and now partially Berlin-based) experimental rock band whose music fuses the relentless, looping repetition of classical minimalism with the propulsive, motorik groove of Krautrock. The ensemble makes pulsating music that employs ideas such as serialist and minimalist composition, just intonation, polyrhythmic patterning, and free jazz and improvisation. Touring in support of their latest album, Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive!, Horse Lords delivers an omnivorous, gripping live experience that is equally at home in DIY basements and formal concert venues.

Shinra Knives, the moniker of St. Louis-based producer Ian Jones, creates electronic music that is emotional, unrelenting, and visceral, merging breakcore and heavy, maximalist music with enigmatic video projections. His tracks were notably championed by Aphex Twin (Richard D. James), who mixed Shinra Knives tracks such as “Black Mouth” and “Laced Blunt” as staples in his touring set.

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