The Nerves' Lone EP Gets Expanded Reissue

Photo by Patty HeffleyL.A. power pop trio the Nerves are best known for writing "Hanging on the Telephone", which was famously covered by Blondie (and, later, L7 and Cat Power, among others). The Nerves were only a band for a few years (from 1975-1978), and that-- plus the fact that their only recorded output is a four-song, self-titled EP-- has led them to be largely overlooked in the discussion of proto-new wave pop music.Alive Records has decided to bring the Nerves back into the public consc...

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