Has it really been three years since the LES venue with sloping floors, a low ceiling and rad Christmas lights, opened up? Your SAK correspondent has seen some dope performances there (Deerhunter and Beach House come to mind), and this Saturday the ‘Shop piles band upon band in an all day, two-floor, cake-infused indie three-for-all.

If you go you may want to check out the recently-SAKed Crystal Stilts, as well as L Magazine favorite Famous Amos, and Brooklyn’s hard-to-Google psych-folksters Woods.

Your SAK correspondent seems to (hopefully temporarily) mistakenly degraded the quality of the photos he took at the WBAR-B-Q on Friday, but since BrooklynVegan seems to have been blinded by the glory that is Coachella to the exclusion of all else, the decision has been made to put up a report on the free indie rockstravaganzas happened above 100th street in Manhattan on a day that turned surprisingly cold after the sun set.

The highlight among the eight or so acts caught was likely Awesome Color, who’s record your SAK correspondent has had for a while but not-at-all absorbed. Regardless, the string-bending, amp-scrapping-and-tossing antics of the three-piece’s singer/guitarist, decked out in Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers tee, were as engaging to watch as to listen to, and the drummer managed to tear through the psych-rock set with appreciably furious energy.

AWESOME COLOR

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