Show Review: The Dimepiece Party Summer Kickoff

The members of VCR Monster (the headlining band I missed at The Crescent Jewell) throw a monthly party at Rancho Verde Golf Club in Rialto. Evidently they have been trying to get The New Division to perform for quite some time, and this month they finally did.
As the youthful crowd gradually filled the room to the electro sounds of The 1200s (Snatch, Inglish the DJ, Androids Don't Stop), I was thoroughly impressed by the lighting. The atmosphere was much more dance club than golf club, despite the heavy concentration of smokers out on the patio with a clear view of the course. TND went on around 11, sans guitarist Brock Woolsey due to work commitments. Their set noticeably altered the enthusiasm of different crowd segments, for the most part switching the casts of smoking patio and dancefloor. Focusing on their more club-ready tracks, their set was significantly more 'thumping' than usual, though that was perhaps due to a bass-heavy soundsystem that buried John's vocals in the mix in favor of basslines and synth leads to keep the kids moving. "No Health" was definitely a crowd favorite, with a circle briefly opening for ravers and b-boys to do some odd cross-genre battling.


The 1200s kept the party going following The New Division with tracks like Armand Van Helden and Dizzee Rascal's "Bonkers" and a dubstep remix of Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci". In all, quite the evening; significantly better than one would expect when hearing "club night at a golf club".