Dancing With Myself - Day 1 - The curse of the dig this! (Phoenix, La Rocca)

So there is a phenomenon that happens among hipsters in boston every week that has even been complained about in letters to the editor at the dig. See, when the dig lists something as dig this! in their event listings, aaaaallll the hipsters and wannabe-hipsters to come out to see it. I don't know if I've ever seen T.T.'s that packed.

Despite the retarded number of hipsters (I hope I didn't get any of it on me) the show was pretty damn awesome. The opener was La Rocca, a band from Dublin with cute accents and catchy tunes. Cristina, I think these guys are right up your alley - you should check them out. Although, you'll probably come back and be all "dude, I told you about these guys in November."

Phoenix was up next (yay for only one opener!) and rocked the house. They were actually a lot more rockin' than I had expected, given how dance-y and electronic-y their albums are. At one point, I was slightly concerned they wouldn't play my favorite song, If I Ever Feel Better. I started to wonder, what if that's not actually a popular song, and it's just the random one I picked as my favorite? It's hard to tell sometimes when bands aren't on the radio and don't have singles and such. But no. Ohhhhh, no. As it turns out, that is everybody's favorite song. The lead singer even did the thing where they don't sing the chorus and let the crowd sing it, and it worked! In T.T.'s! I know! Weird!

The merch guy was pre-selling their new album for 10 bucks and it came with a little bonus CD with some remixes. I figured what the hell, why not. So I got the bonus CD and this weird card I have to take into Strawberries when the album comes out and pick it up.

So it was pretty good night, until I got home to a 75-thousand-page-long email from Nick, who apparently doesn't speak English because he doesn't seem to understand simple phrases like "It's over," or "No, it's really over," or "For the last time, we are not going to get back together. Ever." Jesus.