Friday night @ Watermargin:

In leather jackets, The Plurals played about an hour of punkish rock, covering Black Sabbath to Husker Du to the Smashing Pumpkins. But they also melted faces with tunes of their own doing, a certain “post-rock punk-pop (AKA “post-fun”).” It was generally moshable, loud and fun, though it lacked a particular rawness or energy or something of true punk rock. But I think they’re post that anyway. Anyway, Tommy the guitarist really did melt faces, inciting the praise of palm-up spirit fingers, Nick on bass rocked solid between bottles of Andre to the face, and Hattie kick snare crash bam boom banged with girl power.

About 40 or 50 folks gave the dining room a bit too much elbow room, but those who were there were enthused, and I personally partook in a bit of moshing myself. At one point the fire alarm went off and we begrudgingly exited, and the curb filled with many more peeps from the woodwork. Word on the street was that some drunk mistook the fire alarm for a light switch… drunks do the darndest things. But a cigarette-break-length inspection verified that indeed the building was not burning down, and everyone shuffled back in. The Plural’s played for another while, finishing with an encore.

Then Elsa and the awesomeAWESOMES played. If you didn’t already know, uh, yeah, that’s my band. And it’s actually just me, with my own electronic music plus drumkit and singing and somersaults (an awesomeAWESOME band with real people also exists). I started out a bit rough with some new songs and a just a sip too much of fine champagne. But then my usual electroTetris catchy pants dance & bass straight from the Future flowed everyone right into the Robo Boogie. Also, I had on my buddy’s neon spandex ski suit, which was from the Future and awesome--thanks Jerome. So: The Plurals rocked, and they were awesome dudes and dudette to hang out with, and hey, they're from Michigan! Elsa and the awesomeAWESOMES did the dance, and hey, that's me! LET'S JUST HAVE FUN! Samanarama