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You can always expect two things to happen at a Matt & Kim show: Matt excitedly greeting the crowd saying, "Hi, I'm Matt and this is Kim, and we're Matt & Kim," and then once they start playing the crowd goes berserk. But the 60+ kids that squeezed into Rodrigues Coffee House at Fordham University toppled a speaker before the band had a chance to set up their two keyboards and drum set. The commotion only escalated from there.

Bodies were so tightly packed into the room a few people moving one way could force a wave to ripple through the rest of the crowd, which would eventually come rushing back from the other direction. People were holding up lost cell phones and shoes in between songs. The band couldn't avoid the nudging either. Matt's keyboards became unplugged during "Yea Yeah," which stopped the music but was a much-needed reality check for the crowd.

What could make all these kids go so crazy? Maybe it was the tiny venue, but people seem to instinctively dance like this everywhere Matt and Kim play. There's something about Matt's exuberant lyrics and fuzzy keyboard melodies, and Kim's simple, breakneck rock beats that get your heart pumping, inciting an all-out frenzy.

~3xWes, watercoolergossip.net 

Filmed by Abbey Braden, punkphoto.com

See: "No More Long Years" by Matt & Kim at Rodrigues Coffee House

The inside scoop: As one of the 'chosen' bands on DJ Franki Chan's IHEARTCOMIX label, M&K are set to topple the amps at Bowery Ballroom on March 9th, and will surely knock over everything in between, on the way down to SXSW.

Special Thanks to Rodrigues Coffee House at Fordham University
Special thanks to Jason Mellone and Sheila at Tag Team