Our music editor was groped at Friday’s Screaming Females show. This is not OK.

In advance of tonight’s show at Rock n Roll Hotel, we talked with Paternoster about her hatred of math, the band’s slow, incremental changes and the reasons she was able to relax while recording Rose Mountain.

Thursday night offered a reprieve from the sweltering heat — a blessing for anyone at the Black Cat with functioning olfactory bulbs — as two similar but distinct factions of punk fans converged: the young and crusty (literal) and the old and crusty (attitudinal).