If hipsters watched sports, then 8/8/08 at the La Brea Tar Pits could fittingly be their Olympic Opening Ceremony. Fedoras, v-necks and leggings instead of foam fingers and team jerseys. Apathy and judgment instead of bros and enthusiasm.

Common denominator? Beer and fantastically embarrassing dancing. Japanese noise rock deities, Boredoms, together for over 22 years, headed by the fabulous 44-year-old Yamantaka Eye, continued with their second annual festival of drum-tastic noisegasm. The concert smashed the clock at 8:08 PM local time and featured 88 drummers selected by the Boredoms and Hisham Bharoocha, a drummer in his own right. While Eye took reign over LA’s crown, New York’s Gang Gang Dance led an identical concert in the Big Apple on the same night. With over 73 local L.A. percussions recruited, musical professionals included the asinine Brendan Fowler from BARR, Paul Quattrone from !!!, Yoshi Nakamoto from The Aislers Set and Sarah Anderson from Lucky Dragons. The night was awessomeeeeeeeeeee.

As Aaron Sperske, of the recently reunited L.A. psych-country group Beachwood Sparks, was quoted in the LA Times about the show (yeah dood, the Times covered it. With 15% editorial newsroom cuts, glad to know they’re hitting the important stuff)…

“It was a little chaotic, but they wanted chaos…It was about one-third drummers and two-thirds people who knew how to play drums. If this were a summer camp, you could already see who would hang and who would be left out. It’d be like ‘Meatballs.’”

Feel like you were there.