Milhouse Palacios at Upstairs at Pianos

With so many music clubs in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, there is no surprise in finding a singer-songwriter playing an acoustic guitar on one of the many stages. Ah, but a folky punk singing original songs largely in Spanish? That is different.

Milhouse Palacios, lead singer of a punk rock band, Dias Felices (Happy Days), in his native Bueno Aires, Argentina, brought his indie pop to Upstairs at Pianos tonight. For a while, he seemed to accept that he was background music to most of the Friday night clusters of talkative patrons. Nevertheless, he was not the mellow, sensitive, reflective and introspective performer one expects at some of these clubs. Sitting on a stool, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, he refused to be invisible or inaudible. Expressing a jovial personality, he was raucous, strumming quickly and loudly, insisting the patrons clap along on one song and playing his guitar behind his head at another time. The room was too noisy for me to tell you anything about his lyrics, but I can tell you he was fun.