{"id":227156,"date":"2026-05-11T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227156\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:43:08","slug":"underscores-brings-her-u-haul-dj-set-to-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227156\/","title":{"rendered":"underscores brings her U-Haul DJ set to Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a wildly successful stint in Los Angeles, underscores brought her viral U-Haul pop-up DJ set to Brooklyn. The latest of these pop-up shows\u2014supporting her new album U<\/a>\u2014took place on the back patio of Bushwick queer bar 3 Dollar Bill. I headed over to where the townhouses gave way to warehouses, following a pack of girls in miniskirts and big black boots. Other street style staples at the underscores show: barrel pants, pastel-hued hair, eyeliner with big sharp wings, baggy black hoodies, ripped sheer stockings, ballet flats, legwarmers, beat up white sneakers, beanies, bucket hats, baby bangs, baby hairs, door knocker earrings, adidas track jackets, denim on denim.<\/p>\n

Two hours before showtime, the line was already around the block. I\u2019d guess that the median age was about twenty-three\u2014a real \u201cexactly one year out of college\u201d crowd. I heard one person in line look at everybody standing around in the middle of a weekday afternoon and remark, \u201cDon\u2019t these people have jobs?\u201d (Don\u2019t you?) An ice cream truck circled the block. A fan walked up and down the line asking each person their favorite underscores song (my answer: a resounding \u201clocals (girls like us)\u201d).\u00a0<\/p>\n

I spoke to a few of my line neighbors about what else they were listening to and found that, unsurprisingly, the Venn Diagram of underscores fans, Ninajarachi fans, and Jane Remover fans, is a circle (Nina and Jane DJ\u2019d alongside underscores at the L.A. U-Haul pop-up). One fan of all three of these artists described his music taste as \u201cvery Gen-Z,\u201d before adding: \u201cI\u2019ve actually been listening to a lot of old LCD Soundsystem. It\u2019s not really of this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fans also namechecked Slayyyter, Oklou, COBRAH, Charli XCX, and Frost Children. A few mentioned that they\u2019d attended The Dare\u2019s Freakquencies dance party at Baby\u2019s All Right the night before, which had featured DJ sets from underscores and Hot Chip, as well as a surprise appearance from Tinashe. Palavi and Alison\u2014a pair of fans who very generously held my spot in line while I went around the corner to get a sandwich\u2014mentioned that they were seeing COBRAH at Brooklyn Paramount later that day. Palavi had discovered underscores during an umru DJ set last summer. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening with indie electronic music is really exciting right now,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We all flooded into the 1,500-cap patio just after 6 p.m., where a U-Haul truck stood open with a DJ booth set up inside. A white tarp bearing underscores\u2019 headphones logo was draped over it. Onstage behind the moving trailer was a projected slideshow of photos of underscores herself, set to a loop of Drake\u2019s \u201c200 kids outside<\/a>\u201d clip from his phone call to The Weeknd on Toronto radio station Flow 93.5. underscores and her guests\u2014including Madeon and umru\u2014arrived promptly at 6:30, clambering into the U-Haul to thunderous applause. underscores made an announcement about safety and free RedBull, and informed us of \u201cthe most important rule\u2026 have funnnnnnnn!\u201d before kicking off her set with a remix of Cardi B\u2019s \u201cUp.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a half-updo and a pair of thick-rimmed librarian-chic eyeglasses, underscores mixed \u201cPonyboy\u201d into \u201cBitch Better Have My Money,\u201d Usher\u2019s \u201cYeah!\u201d into Addison Rae\u2019s \u201cI got it bad,\u201d U standout \u201cTell Me (U Want It)\u201d into a remix of \u201cFunkytown.\u201d Despite being only a few yards from the U-Haul itself, I did feel a bit like I was watching the set through a sea of phone screens\u2014which, what did I expect? 3 Dollar Bill\u2019s back porch proved a pretty decent vantage point; it was from there that I watched the U-Haul shake like it was going over a block of potholes to a leroy remix of Jane Remover\u2019s \u201cExperimental Skin \/ How To Teleport\u201d while some kid danced on a nearby roof until security busted them. A Bushwick pop-up seemed like an inevitable destination for underscores\u2019 great moving truck tour\u2014no doubt it brought back memories of \u201csmoke number one.\u201d<\/a> I wonder where underscores and her U-Haul will go next. <\/p>\n

@blushdcake<\/a> @underscores at the brooklyn u-haul pop up \ud83c\udfa7 #underscores<\/a> #uhaul<\/a> #mychemicalromance<\/a> #f5ve<\/a> #nyc<\/a> \u266c Helena \u2013 My Chemical Romance<\/a> <\/p>\n