There was no way to walk into the Coca-Cola Roxy on June 8th and not feel it. The second you stepped inside, the energy smacked you in the chest. It was loud. It was electric. It was joy at full volume. The lineup? Stacked. Dwellings, Belmont, The Home Team, and headliners Dance Gavin Dance, each artist bringing something that made you wanna move, scream, and dance until your legs couldn’t hold you up anymore.
Dwellings opened the night with dreamy guitar tones and killer vocals that wrapped around the crowd like velvet, but with a bite. “Lemonade” and “Gold Leaf” had people swaying, nodding, and already yelling lyrics back… and that was just the start.
Belmont hit next and flipped the switch into chaos. Their set was fast, aggressive, and fun as hell. “Pushing Daisies,” “Bowser’s Castle” and “Overstepping” had the pit in full motion—crowd surfers flying over heads like it was already the headliner. No holding back, no warming up. Just straight fire.
Then The Home Team took the energy and injected it with pure funky charisma. These guys don’t just play shows—they throw parties. “Watching All Your Friends Get Rich” dropped like a bomb, and “Walk This World With Me” felt like the whole crowd was singing a love letter back at the band. Everyone was dancing. Everyone was smiling. “Loud” hit and the place lost its damn mind. It was sweaty, it was loud, and it was everything.
And then… the lights dimmed. The crowd roared. And Dance Gavin Dance took the stage. Whimsical. Wild. Weird in the best way. The second “Speed Demon” started, the floor became a living thing. Tilian’s voice soared, Jon Mess went feral (as he should), and the entire venue turned into a massive sing-along-dance-exorcism. Every single song was a reason to move. A reason to scream. A reason to smile so hard your face hurt.
There was no way to be in that room and not feel alive. You couldn’t stand still even if you wanted to. Every band made you wanna dance till you collapsed. And with the nonstop stream of crowd surfers, the sweaty strangers screaming beside you, and the lights flashing like fireworks, it felt like a shared dream none of us wanted to wake up from.
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