12/31/08 The Danger Masquerade Ball @ Pussycat Lounge, New York, NY

To round out 2008, we reluctantly went with The Danger's massive year end blowout, despite having been burned at their Halloween warehouse event. Stifling crowds and an early end, along with missed connections on multiple fronts left a sour taste, but previous successes beckoned us back.

This event was certainly a spectacle employing every cranny of the Pussycat Lounge's three floors, which seemed to be in the midst of renovations. Brass bands blared, limbo lines lurked, go-go girls gallivanted and spirits soared.

But the crowds swelled to an uncomfortable level well before midnight and we departed for a comfier locale.

07/20/07 Digital Frontier/IndoBox @ Pussycat Lounge, New York, NY

DigiFront returned to the Pussycat Lounge with fellow jamtronica purveyors The Indobox for interlocking sets. I was able to convince several of my non-music-obsessed friends to join me with the promise of titties.

06/29/07 Digital Frontier/Quagmire Swim Team @ Pussycat Lounge, New York, NY

After the relatively early Jazz Fest offering, we swung over to this Lower Manhattan titty bar for a livetronic show upstairs.

Quagmire Swim Team are from Pennsylvania. They're fun, but never broke through to the next level.

DigiFront, as they are known, are a bit better, but several line-up changes, a lot of unwarranted online hate and a general sporadic nature doomed them before they were able to build on their momentum.

This show was enhanced by the less popular painkiller Tramadol.

Aside from the seedy nature of the topless girls behind the bar, the bodega next door offered cheap tallboys and a secret bar in the back featuring little more than liquor and lapdances.

Sometime over the course of the evening, my lady friend and I escaped to a back alley for some escapades that continued at Battery Park.