It’s a Monday night in NJ Hardcore. The half pizza place-half flower shop becomes a discrete concert venue for transgender chronically online teenagers. It’s 80 degrees inside, and 76 outside. That same street, a solo skramz act from Japan, comes out and screams over a vocaloid. You feel young for the first time in months.
I got to see Azumi OE (Butoh (Japanese experimental dance) performer) do a performance as Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) did an electronic music set in the background. They do lots of stuff in NYC
For free (with free drinks and pizza) at a random small house in East Austin during SXSW 2016. I swear this line-up sounds more and more iconic every year. It was super intimate and relaxed; it felt like all of the artists really appreciated it because it gave them a chance to play a chill show for actual fans in between their official SXSW showcases. I'll never forget it
