Tonight’s Drums Show At Webster Hall Will Be Streaming Live At MTV.com

Brooklyn’s own Drums are the most (somewhat winsomely) flamboyant of bands to emerge from our young century’s ongoing Let’s Go to the Beach surf-synth-pop craze, their tunes eerily precise bursts of ’80s-blockbuster melodrama, their live shows very enthusiastic (and very confounding) affairs indeed. Tonight they invade Webster Hall, in a fete to be broadcast in real time on MTV.com at 9 p.m. sharp — slap on some Spandex and join the party in spirit, out there wherever you are. Amateur tambourine-playing very much encouraged. Embed link below:

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