4-20 Is Not a Holiday, It's a Lifestyle

The Ridgewood Masonic Temple is a historic wood-paneled old site in the middle of Brooklyn, which is not built for these kinds of shenanigans. On Thursday the Temple hosts a filming of The Ed Schrader Show starring Dan Deacon. Ed Schrader is apparently a funny, professional awkward person, and Dan Deacon is an intense electronic music enthusiast known for putting on violently energetic shows for the clear-framed glasses crowd. And while there is nothing more painful than listening to hipsters talk about their creative inspirations, there may be nothing more fun than beating them down on the dance floor afterwards. At the Ridgewood Temple, all ages, ticket price at the door.

High Places is known for its ethereal drum and electro music and female vocals. That combination usually translates to “really shitty concert,” but somehow this Brooklyn duo has managed to create a rhythmically and visually exciting live show full of heavy bass and strange little melodies. Ecstatic Sunshine is Baltimore’s answer to the checkout line at Morton Williams—unsettling, slow as fuck, yet strangely beautiful. Cex and Evangelista open. Haymarket Hotel, all ages, $8.

LA’s Dead Meadow is the sound that must constantly be running through the heads of the burnt out hippies walking around Washington Square trying to turn young girls on to “Mr. Green.” Distorted, heavy guitars play startlingly catchy melodies at speeds that always seem just a beat too slow, while a guy with a nice voice drawls about dawn and forests and animals. Cue fuzz guitar solo, and pass that j. They also play Saturday at Music Hall of Williamsburg. With Robots and Empire and They And The Children, Heirloom Arts Theatre, all ages, $10.

Loud and fast with a penchant for audience-directed violence, Jay Reatard do not stop to talk between songs. There is no time for banter when you’re trying to play 15 catchy songs about weird love in less than 30 minutes while keeping your bass player’s ridiculous afro out of your eyes. One of the best live bands around these days. With Cheap Time, Golden Triangle, and Ex Humans, Bowery Ballroom, 18+, $12.