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Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel, where the Toasters were playing on Friday, is
surprisingly easy to find. It has amazing artwork; around the side of
the building are murals depicting late musicians floating in their own
stone archways, against a background of their own heaven. The line-up
includes a varied set of artists including Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix,
Kurt Cobain, and Miles Davis. Inside, murals just as tall as those
outside depict living stars performing in front of a brick wall, with
all the panels tiled together to look like one big concert with
equally spaced singers. Off to the side of the chest-high stage is a
large collection of couches and a pool table. A fun place for a
concert, but the plain concrete floor is not only painful to stomp
around on for hours, but it becomes slippery and grimy after only a
few beers have been spilled on it.
On the other side of the same building is the Met Cafe, where Moxy
Früvous was playing on Saturday. It's a much tamer place, more like a
bar with a stage in the back than the club that Lupo's is. Along one
wall, however, are posters from many of the bands who have played at
the Met Cafe, with a neat artists like Junior Brown standing out among
the plainer posters. The bathrooms are also covered in amazing
graffiti, evidently where bands without posters leave their mark. The
bar was clearly designed for an older clientele than Lupo's; while
Lupo's had two Street-Fighter-esque fighting games in the back of the
room, the Met Cafe had Centipede.
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