Full disclosure: Landsdowne St is not my favorite. My last outing to a show across from Fenway Park ended in witnessing two fist fights, a messy public break up and an even messier bout of public vomiting—all within the 10 minutes we spent waiting on the sidewalk for our ride to show up. But when we got the chance to check out the already sold-out WFNX Disorientation show featuring Matt & Kim and local pop rock heavyweights Televandals at the Landsdowne Pub, I couldn’t help but oblige. You see, Boston, I love a good dance party, and this show promised to be just that.

Televandals brought their A-game, opening the show with a set that would launch a thousand “that’s what she said” jokes—the tunes were tight, the rocking was hard and the hooks were infectious. So infectious, in fact, that I actually recalled the chorus of the catchy “Good For Nothing” from their sweat- and beer-soaked single release party at Great Scott a few weeks back.

And despite the seemingly drawn-out break between sets (there was a lot of time spent testing the stability of the platform on which the drum kit would stand, little did we know how necessary this would prove to be), energy was not lacking when the Landsdowne Pub welcomed Brooklyn-based drum/synth duo Matt and Kim to the stage. With their trademark moxie, the pair of dynamos powered through a set chock full of sing-a-long hooks and fist pumps. Though playing two traditionally sit-down instruments, the twosome’s ecstatic grins were broadcast to all, as stool and bass drum became supports for stomping, sneakered feet. The euphoria on stage was contagious and the packed house had its collective hands in the air from the moment the band walked on stage. After revealing that they are “New Englanders to the bone” (Matt’s originally from Vermont, while Kim grew up in East Providence), the love for Boston kept surging forth through hearty renditions of “Yes Yes No No No,” and “I Wanna” with Matt personally inviting the outliers in the room to push up to the stage and dance.

Matt prefaced crowd-pleaser “Silver Tiles” by saying it was a song about old friends and his first shows in Boston, and ended with high fives for everyone within arms reach of the stage. They played “Cinders,” reportedly the fastest song they’ve ever written, twice as fast. Just for us, Boston. Just for us. Conspicuously missing from the set was “I’ll Take Us Home,” which features the lyrics “Hey New York, our old friend,” though the show was peppered with cover gems such as Gary Glitter’s “Rock and Roll Part 2,” complete with crowd participation (“You couldn’t stop if you wanted to,” Matt mused, “But then again why would you?”), an interlude of Ginuwine’s “Ride My Pony,” and a version of the ever-epic opening of Gob Bluth favorite “Final Countdown” which left the light fixtures swinging from the ceiling. Marking Kim’s first on-stage vocal performance in Massachusetts, the pair played their MTV hit “Lessons Learned.” The video, which features the band stripping naked in Times Square, won a VMA this year, and Matt says they’re still waiting for Kanye to say something. Until then, they will continue to have their moment—especially if they keep churning out hits like “Daylight” with which they closed their set, but not before Matt made the heartfelt announcement that Boston is the only place that feels like home.

–Jessie Rogers