Anybody out there who likes manic electronic music? By the way, everybody’s fucking hand should be up, and those in the D.C. area need to be at the 9:30 club this Sunday (13th) at 7:30 in the evening. Why? LCD Soundsystem will be giving it up like Mark Foley. That is to say: they do it digital.

I saw them last night at Avalon in Boston, a shamefully commercial club in a city broadly intolerant of anything electronically musical, or musically electronic. In this town, there is exactly one place to hear music after 2am, and it ain’t that great. Even still, the venue was packed, and the floor so crammed that Kate and I had to stand on the risers to the right just to get close. They opened with “Someone Great”, and the crowd started pulsing with the first tones.
I’ve never seen moshing at an electronic show before, but it happened. After “Daft Punk is Playing at my House” James Murphy stopped for a second and said “You guys in front, who are kind of slamming into each other, I just wanted to say something. If you look around and don’t see any girls within two or three bodies, you’re not dancing right. Seriously, I’m not judging, I’ve been there, I just wish someone had said something to me. Girls are awesome. They make dancing a lot more fun.”
The last song they played was an extended version of “Yeah”. Imagine, if you will, electronic lava. Thick, deeply glowing and undeniable, there was no choice but to be immersed and revel in it.
Maybe there’s hope for Boston yet.

I’d put up a picture or two from their show last night, but the hardware/software fruit salad of communication we call the internet says no.