I’m going to start all this by saying Coney Island is ridiculously cool. I respect your opinion, so disagree if you’d like, but just know you’re wrong. The place is one big survivor of a locale, caught years in the past and loving every second of it. On its rickety boardwalk, there are family owned drink places and gyro shops; there are retro kiddy rides and a “shoot the freak” booth, if you’ve ever wanted to shoot at a real human target, you sick person, you. (Seriously. The announcer kept asking us to “get your freak on” too, which was all sorts of great.)
So, among the pony rides and the flea market, the famous Cyclone roller coaster and the unnecessary amounts of body fat stuffed into bikinis, what better place to hold a free music festival? The answer to that is the moon, of course, but Coney Island is second best. Easily.
This past Saturday was the Siren Music Festival, a concert nine years running that specializes in showcasing bands that will absolutely blow the hell up very, very soon. And two stages, fourteen bands, ten hours and countless trips across the boardwalk later, we at Knox Road are ready to let you know which of those bands could be the Next Big Thing.
So strap on your seat belt, because god knows those wooden roller coasters are unsafe (just look at that termite damage!), and take an antacid, because god knows those mom and pop empeñadas are deadly, and get ready for Knox Road’s Siren Music Festival review.
(Here’s a taste – I took a video of this fantastic performance during Monotonix‘s set:)
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