Battles

Glorious, rad-tastic, amazatonic, etc. Battles is king.

These guys are awesome! Phenomenal musicians, extremely talented each of them. Brilliant! The timing is impeccable and, as far as I can tell, the performance was perfect. These guys are masters!

This band is excellent live. Its amazing they can pull off this kind of music, although they did have some hiccups as usual. This was may second time seeing them, and the sound was better than the first. Rather than highlighting blemishes, Battles shined! There's something about their shows, it feels like you are playing with them. I hope they put out another album!

This was my first show at Masquerade (recently moved to Atlanta) and the upstairs stage "Heaven" was spacious and comfortable. They even had chairs and tables back by the bar for while you waited. It was crowded but not pack so there was room to dance and have a good time. As for the band, I've enjoyed their music since Glass Drop and had recently picked up La Di Da Di but have never seen them live. I knew only having 3 members and all that musical looping there would be set up time to build each song. Only at the start of the show did you really get to see them create and build what would become their set list (or at least the start of it). Once the music started and we all caught up with what they had playing in their heads, you barely noticed when they were setting up new loops and transitioning into other songs. I was very impressed: to "know" what they do and see it live are two completely different things and I'm glad I got to experience the latter.

Battles was one of the best shows I have seen in a long time. Please do not clap along. Their understanding of tempo is a lot better than yours. I don't care if you go to the top music school in the country.

I was really unsure how Battles would pull off their huge sound live, especially with so many guest vocalists. Well, they did it. I'm not going to spoil the show for you, but it is amazing. Go.

Had really high hopes for this show, but it was borderline unlistenable. Tonto and Atlas rocked, but everything else was painful.

Intense performance. The drums took the show to the next level.

Words can't describe the energy they produce on stage. If there is one band to see before you die, look no further.

The sound was pretty good. Battles were solid and Nisennenmondai really surprised me. I absolutely hated the people who instigated the mosh pits. Kinda ruined my listening experience, but that's people for you.

Battles is always amazing and inspiring. Great crowd too.

Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined 3 people could create such amazing sound with such basic instruments. They do what most DJ's only wish they could. Fantastic live show, one of the best I've ever seen.

excellent job live to recreate what i have only heard on their albums... i was blown away

The show was absolutely amazing. I was right in the front near the stage and Battles gave a phenomenal performance. I could not have asked for a better, more high energy show!!! my boyfriend and I had a fantastic time. They are so amazing live! i would definitely go see them again if they were to come back to Boston!!!

THEY WERE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD

the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The show was definitely worth going to. I've seen Battles twice before, when Tyondai was still in the band, and I think this was one of the tightest performances that a live band has ever delivered. I saw these people dancing crazily, then I was dancing crazily. It was an infectious sequence of moments. I gotta see these guys anytime they're around.

When I went to see Battles, I was expecting a lot out of them. Not only did they meet expectations, but they surpassed them by a long shot. Highly recommend anybody who can see these guys should.

these are simply one of the best live bands out there... they sound even bigger as a 3 piece...

New ish is TIGHT!!! Go get the new album, drops June 7th

Been waiting a long time to see Flying Lotus. I had to leave after his set but it was totally worth it

Good show. !!! rocked. Battles was great too, but not the best I have seen them.

Pivot seemed pretty unremarkable, but the rest of the show was uniformly excellent. A Flying Lotus set is always fresh with unrecorded material, and even the familiar elements are recontextualized with other samples and beats. !!! played mostly new material, which on the whole, sounded more restrained and subdued but as tight and groove-focused as ever. Battles also previewed some new material. Only downside was their set was cut short for some reason (as thought Terminal 5 had to close up at midnight), and it appeared that they skipped over some other songs they planned to play to get to "Atlas" to close the show out.

Great crowd last night at Terminal 5 - a favorite venue of ours! Love the 3 level option inside the Terminal because it gives you a chance to spread out and diversify. Flying Lotus and Pivot were fairly interesting but we were there for BATTLES. Although it was a while before BATTLES went on it was well worth the wait! BATTLES GAVE AN ABSOLUTELY AMAZING PERFORMANCE!!!! GREAT RESPONSE FROM THE CROWD. WE LOVED THEM! And just a little news flash:::: David Byrne was there. He arrived while BATTLES were performing their set. Now, that says something to me! We can't wait until BATTLES come back to NYC! Thanks for a great concert guys!

Flying Lotus and Battles definitely rocked this event. However, it was a bad lineup. !!! should have come before Flying Lotus because after his amazing performance we were lolled to sleep and boredom by the weird, generic, uninspiring performance of !!!. This made it take a while to get into the Battles performance. But, Overall it was amazing.

I totally fell in love with !!!'s performance. I was very happy to see all of those guys.

Battles was a-uh-mazing. Full on!!!!! Flying Lotus was amazing. I want to more!!! !!! was uneven & inconsistent. & the singer spends waaaaay too much time dancing in the mirror at home. Missed Pivot. Terminal 5 is my least favorite venue. Terrible sitelines, weird acoustics, staff is surly. But easy to get around & the roof is good if you want to miss an act & hang out with yr friends.