FRICTION NYC

GET HYPE! Toronto’s Crystal Castles, along with Los Angeles quartet HEALTH, and New York’s Team Robespierre and Apache Beat are set to turn the next installment of FRICTION into a balls-to-the-motherfucking-wall dance party. Expect a night of dizzying strobe lights, throbbing basslines, blasts of noise, tropical and psychedelic freak-outs, and plenty of ruckus as these four acts bring hype to the Mercury Lounge on March 26th. Dayton Ohio’s very own, Ruckus Roboticus will be laying down tracks between sets.

TICKETS / Doors @ 7pm / Flyer, MP3s + more below

Toronto’s CRYSTAL CASTLES transformed Chicago’s Abbey into a bona fide arcade rave last night, punctuating pretty much every blip, bleep, and fuzzy bass throb with a strobe light that flickered nearly non-stop through their set [Pitchfork, 2/27/08].
[MP3]: “Loving and Caring”

The rock’n'roll lifestyle takes its toll, but HEALTH keep themselves in upper-case shape with their frenetic, head-banging, percussion-brutalizing live shows [Pitchfork].
[MP3]: “Crimewave”

TEAM ROBESPIERRE are the perfect band to ask to play when you want to turn your broken-down loft or vacant parking lot into an instant party space [Oh My Rockness].
[MP3]: “Ha Ha Ha”

Both live and on record, APACHE BEAT channel their interests back to the confines of modern music, layering together huge slices of delicately constructed melodies and rhythm [Dazed and Confused].
[MP3]: “Tropics (CFCF Remix)”


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