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In Ridgewood, Indie Rockers Grow Up

Beach Fossils play a packed house at TV Eye

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In Ridgewood, Indie Rockers Grow Up

Beach Fossils play a packed house at TV Eye

In Ridgewood, Indie Rockers Grow Up

“It’s great playing here, we live right around the corner,” said a jubilant, mildly drunk Dustin Payseur, late on a Friday night in Ridgewood. Payseur’s band, Beach Fossils, had just released their fourth full-length album, called Bunny. For longtime fans, the release was a promise that some things could stay the same in the world of sunny, beach-adjacent indie rock; “still as laid-back as you remember,” recommended a blogger at Pitchfork, the website that has been dutifully covering Payseur’s moves since he had emerged in early 2010s Brooklyn, playing amid a scene of like-minded chill dudes like the guys in Real Estate, Mac DeMarco and Diiv, a band whose frontman Zachary Cole Smith got his start playing drums on some of Payseur’s early tours.

These days, Payseur has enough pull to sell out the new, indie club around the corner on two day’s notice. (“No door tickets for @beachfossilsnyc we are completely sold out…

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