This week we'll be taking a look back at a March 2012 set by New York's own Pop. 1280. It's pretty fitting this band took their name from a pulp fiction novel because the typically literary setting of "dystopian future" seems to fit this band more than most musical categories. Their sound is aggressive, dark, in your face (sometimes literally, frontman Chris Bug tends to bring his show to the crowd), and something you'd imagine would be accompanying a montage of someone hacking into the mainframe of UNESCO. A highlight of this set includes their cyberpunk ode to exhibitionism "Step Into The Grid", which like most of this set is worth a listen for the great synth work alone. Their LP "The Horror" was released this past year on Sacred Bones. -LC