HPSU: Javelin/Lemonade - The Warehouse

There is a reason that I don't review a lot of the shows that I go to. I'm too fucked up. I refuse to be 'that guy' with the pad and pen jotting down show notes. I would much rather have a great time with my friends before showing up and continue drinking and drugging while at said show. This worked out to be the perfect formula for another HSPU event. This message is brought to you by Red Dog the official road soda of summer 2010.

We arrived to The Warehouse around 10:45, the perfect time to arrive. @dirty_dustin was spinning before Lemonade came on, right around 11. The building, which at first seemed empty really filled up once Lemonade took stage...and this dance-rock group had The Warehouse bumpin. Live drums are key here. They really add to the full sound...and on the last jam, everyone in the band was playing drums. Another cool percussion feature they used was sampling in steel drums...it really makes it much more of a tropical feel, and that is my theme for summer. This band is hard to pin-down, they have a sound of their own in a genre where a lot of people are making the same sound. They stray from that, it really works for them.

Javelin took stage after what I thought was a short intermission, (probably just lost track of time, too much fun being had) with one cymbal, a drum pad, and a bunch of buttons. Their new album 'No Mas' is a chilled out techno...something that you can jam to while studying. Live, they are a different story. Every track they chose had two things: 1- every song they played was long, they were not affraid to make a song go towards five minutes...when most songs I am hearing lately tend to end before three minutes. 2- Every song brought the heat. Dudes (not our group) were taking off shirts left and right. It must'a been something in the punch, but everyone was feelin the love on Saturday night in the Heartbeat. Javelin's music is fun, and that's what everyone had...it was an undeniably great time.

Next event for HPSU is 5/28 http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=121919791168201&ref=mf