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Photoessay: Telekinesis at the Crocodile

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

The text placeholder during this photo upload read as follows: fill in here RE super mega-ballertasticness show. While a departure from proper journalistic prowess, that verbage is so close to on-the-money that we're just going to have to leave it.

Saturday night at the Crocodile was indeed a super mega-ballertasticness kind of night. Between the bump-bump of the house music between sets, Mal de Mer's melancholy-but-upbeat indie pop, the beats of the Globes, and the general mindbendingness of Telekinesis -- we literally couldn't have asked for anything more. We bopped until our feet were sore, and we've even got the photos to prove it:

Mal de Mer

{Mal de Mer / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Mal de Mer / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Mal de Mer / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

The Globes

{The Globes / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{The Globes / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

Telekinesis (seriously!)

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

{Telekinesis / by Victoria VanBruinisse}

Thanks to all the bands and everyone at the Croc for an amazing night!

Want more eye candy? There's plenty more where this came from -- you can dig on more pictures in the TIG flickr pool, and PS, if you haven't yet -- be sure to breeze through our recent interview with Michael Benjamin Lerner. 12 Desperate Straight Lines is fast becoming our favorite go-to album of 2011 so far!

{All photos courtesy of Victoria VanBruinisse.}

Gorgeous shots, queen of the camera eye! Really ace stuff. And I need to check out "12 Desperate Straight Lines" really bad too (so late!). Thanks for the reminder.

chris! thank you. and yes, you must... so many new great albums have come out already this year, but this is the first one for me that's transcended 'great' and graduated to a 'go-to' -- if that makes sense. also, starting the set with the single off the new album to set the tone of the show was a GENIUS move, which I forgot to mention above. brillz!

I love that. Often, the band waits to play it at the encore (or near the end of the regular set), as if it's the pudding and we all have to eat the meat first (thanks, Pink Floyd, for the harrowing lifelong image). You got a smart new song, kick it out there! A good one way to establish a connection, and defies many silly old rock rules.

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