Dove Blood headline The Broadway with support from Maidenhead, Nevāda Nevada, and Togs

7:00PM Doors

21+

$12 in advance // $15 at the door

Dove Blood

dove blood is three people haunted by death in three distinct ways. Nadya Grace (bass, vocals) cheated death as a teenager by surviving a horrible car wreck. Alicia Berbenick (every instrument ever, vocals) draws and illustrates horror icons as an illustrator and poster designer. Avi Bonnerjee (guitar, vocals) is probably already dead, a walking corpse animated solely by ADHD meds and MKULTRA conspiracy theories.

Together, they make music that started as a collaborative pandemic catharsis but grew into a mix of sounds that is a little dream pop, a little shoegaze, and a little 90s goth. A death dream where the likes of Julee Cruise, Cocteau Twins and The Cure all make appearances.

Nevāda Nevada

Nevāda Nevada songs are lush, loud, melodic piano-and-guitar landscapes nested within an awful lot of noise, penned by frontman Kathryn Musilek (Burn Disco Burn, Deathships) and shaped and arranged by the band: Andrew Gerhan (Our Lady of the Highway, Adam Arcuragi, The Animals), David Olson (The Poison Control Center, The Wheelers) and Alicia Berbenick. In addition, Isiah Gage plays cello that sometimes sounds like horses, and Anya Combs plays supremely skronky, no-wave saxophone.

Musilek’s lyrics are figurative and feminist, full of abrupt shapes and bright-siding about “the difference a day made a decade ago,” or the more weighted and upsetting fact that “we can leave”, but it’s not going to change much. The songs on Past Life are about time and activism, love and rage, and being stuck while still building something.