Ponytail Photo: Andrew Nawrocki
Dressed in a Day-Glo t-shirt and hot pink jeans, Ponytail’s Molly Siegel was like an electrified imp during today’s performance, covering the stage in leaps and bounds alongside guitarist Dustin Wong, whose own manic pogoing failed to give her a run for her money. The young four-piece blistered through their 40-minute set: in fact, their energy was turned so high that they seemed to be done in half the time. Their insistence on creating a colossal wall of unrelenting noise meant that much of the dynamic tone was buried beneath Siegel’s distinctive cartoon-character-meets-shrieking-fireball yelp, but their spasmodic rhythms and the sheer fit of excitement that radiated from this Baltimore-based bunch was just what the afternoon needed.
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