Archive - May 25, 2010

To my own embarrassing determination, I seem to have a penchant for beating my way to the front of the crowd at concerts – and with OK Go coming to Ithaca, NY I knew I would have raised a fist or two to get where I wanted to be.

Crystal Castles has always been a deeply polarizing band. They play a unique, aggressive fusion of electronic music and noisy, punkish rock. Their shows are infamously chaotic; at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008, the show's organizers cut Crystal Castles' set short because vocalist Alice Glass refused to stop climbing atop the stage rigging and diving into the audience.