Clark knew full well why it was that Saturday night’s show had sold out in four minutes, and as wonderful as Beauty Pill’s collection of angular and melodic post-punk was, it wasn’t them. Neither was it Owls & Crows, whose opening set was a juggernaut of hard, no-nonsense rawk that could have headlined a show just as satisfyingly as Beauty Pill’s. The irrepressible crowd, who had come from up and down the east coast, across the continent, and even across the Atlantic, had come for the Dismemberment Plan, playing again for the first time (technically, second counting Friday’s show) since they packed it in at the 9:30 Club back in 2003, coming together over the weekend for two benefit shows for Callum Robbins.

And it seemed, for the nearly two hours that the Plan held the stage, like maybe the intervening years had just been a wisp of a dream, and things were picking up right where they left off.