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Some Nights is not merely an album – it’s a musical masterpiece that makes getting slapped with tickets for noise ordinance violations (in the name of fun.) well worth it.  The sophomore album of the NYC-based indie rock trio consists of 11 brilliant tracks capable of stirring up euphoric uprisings in any living being’s visceral parts – and that’s putting it mildly.

Venturing from the indie pop genre of their 2009 debut album Aim and Ignite, Nate Ruess (lead vocals), Jack Antonoff (guitar/vocals), & Andrew Dost (keyboard/vocals) employ a hip-hop influence in their sophomore album that jolts the band into genre-bending territory.  In an interview with blogcritics.org, Dost credited Kanye West’s critically-acclaimed My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (from 2010) for inspiring fun.’s stylistic epiphany, which resulted in the band’s enlistment of producer Jeff Bhasker, who had a hand in producing West’s album.  Together, they developed Some Nights, a majestic blend of cool indie pop, laced with hip-hop grandiosity, & presented with outstanding theatrics reminiscent of the glam rock band Queen’s heydays.

Penguin Prison performed an act of wizardry in Brooklyn on Thursday night.  Chris Glover (aka Penguin Prison), former member of Alicia Keys’ gospel choir, cast a spell on the crowd at the Music Hall of Williamsburg with his groovalicious mix of alternative, pop, funk, electronic, dance beats, & sweet, catchy melodies.  The New York native singer/producer opened for The Temper Trap, & wowed the audience with seven songs from his self-titled debut album, released in October 2011.