Our ears are still ringing and our eyes are still bleeding* from the super-packed, line around the block and down the alley Crystal Castles show last night. But just when we thought we didn't have a single dance move left in us, we stumbled across John McCain's favorite band. *Seriously kids, stop it with the gold lamé and the boys in neckerchiefs.......

Crystal Castles create dance music out of brittle 8-bit derived beats and high-pitched squeaks and squonks. It's dance music for the Nintendo generation, full of dancing Marios and Luigis grinding up against ambisexual Sonic the Hedgehogs. For the most part their music is heavy on the treble and way in your face, and we understand that's not for everyone. When the band pulls its attack back a bit, it's pop side surfaces, as in the......