Lake John: Midweek Jams

As much as I love music, I'm not a big fan of concerts. I don't have the patience for the crowd. I'm always stuck behind the over-dancing guy, whose liberal use of flying elbows and fanciful back kicks meets with my face/groin/shin one time too many for me to enjoy the mediocre DJ trying to compensate for the main act's 45-minute sound check delay.

Don't get me wrong, I will gladly suffer Sweaty McSlamDancer if the band is worth it, and I have to say that the truly great live performances I've experienced over the years vastly outweigh the bad ones. Chromeo is a great example of a concert worth seeing. I saw them in 2008 when they were promoting Fancy Footwork, the group's sophomore album that launched them from relative obscurity to mainstream success.

If you ask me they still don't get the love they deserve. Six years ago, when Chromeo were producing synth-pop like it was nobody's business, they were classed as 'guilty pleasure music'; now everyone and their mother rocks a Casio with a Vocoder.

The Montreal outfit has been touring this summer to promote their third album, Business Casual, due out in September. Go here to see if they're going to be in your area. Their single, 'Night by Night', should be sufficient evidence that this concert will kick out the jams.



Chromeo will be joined by fellow dance floor heroes Holy Ghost!, whose EP Static on the Wire is making a bit of a splash.



Let the good times roll.