The Bronx at Bowery Electric

Sometimes it seems like creative music starts in New York, but Los Angeles artists copy, refine and improve it.  A hardcore punk band called the Bronx is actually from Los Angeles, and nobody does live punk better than what we saw tonight at Bowery Electric. The quintet of Matt Caughthran, Joby J. Ford, Jorma Vik, Brad Magers and Ken Horne is back with its first album in five years, entitled The Bronx (IV), and it finds the group more melodic and accessible, without sacrificing the slam dancing, crowd-surfing intensity of its 10-year trademark sound. Vocalist Caughthran encouraged much of the moshing, throwing himself repeatedly into the audience. The Bronx plays a second sold-out night at Bowery Electric tomorrow night.