These Are Powers at Glasslands
These are Powers
With a sea of empty Colt 45 cans strewn across the floor and a crowd packed like the L on a weekday morning These Are Powers rocked Vice’s party at Glasslands Thursday night. Late on the bandwagon, These Are Powers first drew my attention opening for Dan Deacon this January in a raucous warehouse show in Bushwick. While they were great in the winter, warm weather and top billing drew a different level of energy out of the band. These Are Powers have described their sound as “ghost punk” and their set last night indeed proved to be haunting-yet-extremely-danceable chaos. Pterodactyl opened with thunderous punk and the crowd was treated to a surprise set by Columbus, Ohio’s finest lo-fi noise rockers Psychedelic Horseshit. A friend of mine noted that the crowd was so hyped by These Are Powers’ set that they forgot to stop shaking their booties and dancing during Horseshit’s heavy drone.
More photos after the jump.
--Andrew Ritchie
Pterodactyl
Comments
"Haunting-yet-extremely-danceable chaos..." That sounds awesome! Can't wait to check these guys out.
~Knocks From the Underground
Posted by: Knocks From the Underground | May 24, 2009 07:01 PM
i actually saw these are powers at emo's in austin like last year and loved it so much i bought their disc. heard they've gotten even awesomer since then. didn't get to go to this show so thanks for recap! i hope i catch them soon.
Posted by: Ell | May 23, 2009 07:32 PM