09/03/2026
Horse Lords with special guest Shinra Knives. Tickets and info: newmusiccircle.org
Friday, September 25th | 7pm Doors / 8pm Shina Knives / 9pm Horse Lords
The Key STL (3225 Olive St.)
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$10-$20. Advanced tickets are recommended. Online tickets are available until 3pm day of show. Tickets will always remain available to purchase at the door. All ages event (please bring id)
Horse Lords:
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.
“…the members are so locked into their individual parts that it’s not always easy to tell if the melodic line is coming from one guitar, two of them doubling each other, or some third melodic line that suggests itself, like an auditory hallucination, in the middle space, where all these notes pool and mix together.” - Pitchfork
Shinra Knives:
Shinra Knives, the moniker of St. Louis-based producer Ian Jones, creates electronic music that is emotional, unrelenting, and visceral that merges 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. Shinra Knives has released two full-length studio LPs: In Grief (2021) and you will never see heaven (2022). Both albums utilize a raw combination of glitch, IDM, and raw electronic experimentation, and have been pressed and distributed across digital, cassette, and physical vinyl.
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