Staines!

Hard-Fi crushed it last night at the Bowery. They were much more ballsy than the last time I saw them. Now they act like rock stars, and their show backed it up. Richard Archer has a lot more mojo now than when they played the Mercury Lounge. In an imperitive tone, he tells the crowd to "clap along" or "now I want everyone to jump up and down." Surprisingly, almost everyone obeyed. He even made a comment about how New York's crowds were "too cool for school." True.

"Hard to Beat," and "Gotta Reason" were probably the stand out tracks of the set.

(I took the above picture at the Mercury show last fall).