I'm off to a mythical land called "France" for a few days. In the meantime, please enjoy these photos from Explone's gig at the Crocodile Cafe last month.

One of the bummers about taking photos at the gig is they're almost exclusively done onstage, during soundcheck, to an empty room, and I end up searching Flickr and the rest of the internet for weeks after the gig hoping someone in the crowd posted a few snaps. The Croc was filled all night, rare for a rainy Thursday after New Year's.

Headlining act The Globes soundchecking (they were particularly awesome live, as were Eighteen Individual Eyes):

We even had our own smoke machine! Meet "The Hazer:"

"So are you guys gonna want the Hazer? Yes, you' definitely want the Hazer." -- Croc lighting tech guy.