Our attempt to see the Jacuzzi Boys started out smoothly enough. We arrived at Glenn Danzig’s House around 9, to find the cinderblock performance space already crowded and Daniel Pujol setting up to play. (We’d missed one opening band, Funstix.) The crowd skewed young, skinny-jeaned and bemulleted. With their circular melodies and fast-paced, sinuous basslines, Pujol’s band has a strong Strokes vibe (while also reminding us at times of The Jam). They played such songs as “Endless
Mike” and “Keeper of Atlantis” that occupy a crowd-pleasing point between sloppily authentic punk and polished, Against Me!-style pop punk. By the time they finished with a long jam/extended outro, it was even hotter inside than out.
