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The men of the hour, and their adoring public. Pics by Puja, more below.

​Last night's Chromeo release party was a real family affair. The Montreal pop-funk duo celebrated the release of their third album, Business Casual, at the Lower East Side's hidden Chloe 81 (which is still not the new Beatrice Inn); the door was guest-list-only, and a snarky, suited bouncer stood alongside Cornerstone Promotion's much more laid-back list guy, both gentlemen coolly monitoring the scene and smoking cigarettes. Inside was the only kind of VIP situation we can get behind.

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So much umbrella dancing.

"An accurate summary of the pagan ritual-meets-Fred Astaire umbrella dancing that became yesterday's BK show," wrote Montreal joke-funk duo Chromeo on Twitter earlier today, about our own Puja Patel's report on the show. (Thanks Chromeo!) But that got us thinking: what does pagan ritual-meets-Fred Astaire umbrella dancing actually look like, in real time? Is that like what they do at Phish shows? Not having seen this species of dance in NYC before (our photographer stuck to portraits, sadly), we went looking for documentation. Luckily, there's tons of it. Gather round and see what Brooklyn looks like when its drunk off rain water and the persecution of the OSA:

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Throw down your umbrellas, Brooklyn. Pics by Sam Horine.

​Chromeo
East River State Park
Sunday, August 22

Yesterday afternoon's rain-soaked Jelly NYC Pool Party, once thought to be the last one ever due to a since-resolved spat with the OSA, might have been the best one of the season. Storm worries delayed things, but a few hours and a handful of encouraging Tweets later, the rain-soaked grounds of East River State Park opened their gates to the public, which soon enjoyed a headlining set by Montreal's electro-pop cheeseballs Chromeo (see photos of the whole thing here).

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