RAQ Brings the Heat…and the Fire

To be completely honest, this year’s Green Apple Music & Arts Festival lineup in New York was, to borrow an expression from the Torah, lamer than FDR’s legs.

You know it’s a weak festival when the weather steals the show, a warm spring weekend providing the saving grace for the East Coast third of the tri-city Earth Day event. The musical highlight? For me, that was a total no-brainer, a real Schiavo: It was RAQ at Bowery Ballroom. These guys not only fucking smoked, they blew fire as well — check out this short clip I took of the band’s cover of KISS’ Shout It Out Loud, with a Prometheus-like associate joining them on stage:

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Well have more from this RAQ @ Bowery show coming up later, but I wanted to throw up a little teaser until I find some time to procrastinate from my real job…

• ‘Til then, here’s a sweet video from 2/05 in Vail of a song they ripped to shreds on Saturday night to close the first set, Quick and Painless