Nothing like drinking train-corn while sporting a stylish train-braid. Photo and hair-do by Jessie May.

It was a hot and sultry afternoon when me and six of my pale, mostly alcoholic friends headed to the Glenbrook train station for a rowdy night of heavy metal in the City. Laughs and smiles were abound as three-quarters of Arcane Malevolence and three-quarters of Pink Missile (and Carrie) sacrificed our plans of making drunken fools out of ourselves at one of our houses in exchange for making fools out of ourselves at a lovely and unabashedly corporate Manhattan venue, the Best Buy Theater. We loaded into the train and wasted no time in breaking out the train-corn as we guzzled down as much wine, drank as much beer, and crafted as many French braids out of our hair as we could in preparation for a great show.

Now, this is where I’m supposed to go into the actual reason why I took up this “Music” space on this month’s Alternative Control. I’m supposed to write a review on the show and what I thought of all the bands. However, I (sort of) regret to inform you that in reality I only really saw 40% of the actual bands. I’ll tell you what I know, and fill in the rest with cheap attempts to recreate what I’m sure I missed. Read more »