BAEBLE CONCERTS: Electric Six at The Bowery Ballroom

Garage rock has been revisited by everyone from Jack White to The Hives, but no one does it quite like Electric Six. Their music is glammed-up garage rock for the New Wave revival, complete with synth solos, campy lyrics, and enough hyperactivity to warrant a band-wide prescription for Adderall.

The Motor City sextet took the Bowery Ballrom's stage in tuxedos and evening wear, looking surprisingly respectable until they ripped into the spastic set-opener "Improper Dancing." "Have you ever been to New York City?" sang frontman Dick Valentine, smiling confidently as the crowd went positively insane in response. An hour of sweaty, high-octane music followed, with lyrics covering such R-rated topics as drug consumption and diseased girls. The singer broke down and ditched his soggy tuxedo for the group's encore, but even a casually-dressed Valentine couldn't lose the collective heart of this audience.

-Andrew Leahey