One: Tuesday night at Glasslands in Brooklyn was the first installment of Pendu Org’s new weekly “Horror Scores for the Dancefloor” party, hosted by Harrison Owen and Todd Pendu.

Two: The headliner for the evening was the Gothic synthesizer trio Salem, whose onstage mystique I can only describe as falling somewhere between that notorious Massachusetts township and a menthol cigarette smoked in a parked sedan outside a strip mall.

Three: Tuesday night at Glasslands looked a lot like the above photo by Maggie Lee. In other words, the room was so smoky that you were unlikely to see past the raised French tips of the person standing in front of you.
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