Updated: Wiping out Thousands cancels RecordBar show on Tuesday night

Update: We’ve just received news that Alaine Dickman and Taylor Nelson have had to cancel their show at RecordBar tomorrow night due to a family death that took place over the weekend. No news on a rescheduled show. 

Alaine Dickman and Taylor Nelsonmake up the Minneapolis duo Wiping Out Thousands, an experimental electronic band for all the nerds out there. They take their name from the Alvin Toffler novel Future Shock, if that tells you anything.

Dickman and Nelson make music that sometimes sounds like agitated robots at a peace conference – in a good way. Dickman has a pop voice, but maybe that’s what makes it so entrancing, mashed up against abrasive electro-rock and computer effects. (For the especially curious, here is an interview I did with the duo a year ago.)