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One of the final JellyNYC McCarren Park Pool shows, last Sunday was an exciting day with a four band line-up:Tall Firs, King Khan & the Shrines, Deerhunter, and the Black Lips.

Even the constant threat of stormy weather and thunderstorms could not scare away the massive lines for Sunday's MGMT show at McCarren Park Pool—people were lining up at 10 a.m. and many had to wait for hours to actually enter the pool.

Union Hall is a perfect match for Le Loup. The D.C.-based band is a seven-piece ensemble, and you often get the feeling that its music is just barely contained within its confines—a three-minute song on its excellent debut album The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, or, in this case, a little room in the basement of a neighborhood bar.

One of the more exciting things about going to a concert in New York City is looking around the audience at the various celebrities, musical and otherwise, in attendance.

Major holidays, as a general rule, make it tough to fill a concert venue. Mondays are also tough. When the two happen to align, you can pretty much guarantee a subdued set.

Hot Chip will break your legs and snap off your head—at least according to the title track of the British five-piece’s 2006 sophomore electro-gem The Warning.