@ZackTeibloom Sweaty dance parties. God love ‘em. The most fun you can have with your clothes on. Passion Pit’s dance parties are somewhere between Ghostland Observatory and Girl Talk on the intensity scale. The crowd’s are as packed (and dance harder) then a sold-out Ghostland shows , but it’s not nearly the sweaty free-for-all that Girl Talk is. I could have guessed that going in.

If you don’t know them yet, Passion Pit is a five-piece from Cambridge, Mass with a unique line-up: A drummer, bassist, two keyboardists and a synth/sounds man. What started as a Valentines Day present for Angelakos’ girlfriend two years ago has exploded into a critically acclaimed studio and live act on the heels of their first LP, Manners. The kind of band Pitchfork raves about and hipsters dance unabashedly to. Read the rest of this entry »

@ZackTeibloom So many lessons from this crash, I don’t know where to start. @ChrisinAustin and I arrived at Emo’s around 9:30, with the show called for 10. With all three outside doors well-guarded, we walked around to the alley, where Chris suggested scaling a wall or contorting our bodies underneath an impassably small hole in the fence.

Lesson #1 of the night: No grand entrances.

Every move you make in a crash should be explainable if you get caught. What’s your defense gonna be when you’re spotted lodged between two fences chained together behind Emo’s. Two fences chained loosely enough that you could have made it (if you hadn’t taken advantage of free root beer float night at Sonic.) Read the rest of this entry »