The Blow

The Blow is Melissa Dyne and Khaela Maricich. They make experimental pop music. They are touring USA in fall 2018 with a new performance: ENERGETIC STRATEGIES (For Right Now). Through this performance they present a range of energetic strategies, for right now.

After several years in the studio developing new sounds and new instruments for playing them, The Blow have a new album, “Brand New Abyss,” a collection of electroacoustic compositions spanning from amped up rap jams to reverberant heartbreak halos. In live performances the duo performs with the same rig that they use to produce and record, a towering mothership of patched-together modular synths ancient samplers and other analog gear. Dyne comes from a background in installation centered on the physics of sound and light and Maricich has worked extensively in the context of performance art; their live shows build on these foundations, using popular music as a vehicle for broader explorations. The Blow’s 2013 self-titled album was listed on both of the New York Times’ lists of Best Songs of 2013, and was selected as NPR music editor Bob Boilen’s favorite album of the year. Since 2014 they have been curating WOMANPRODUCER.com, a multi-platform archive of female music producers, engineers and sonic innovators. Together they curate WOMANPRODUCER, a platform for sharing data on female, trans and non-binary producers and sonic innovators. They live in New York City.