Tigersushi Records: Poni Hoax at La Boule Noire

Poni Hoax, My Sister Klaus, Theoretical Girls at La Boule Noire (120 bd Rochechouart 75018 Paris) the unmarked downstairs of La Cigale. Poni Hoax are high energy if not terribly unique. The lead singer is refreshingly ugly. Bug-eyed and balding like a frog. La Boule Noire is a very deep rectangular space, bigger than expected -- somewhere between Bowery Ballroom and Webster Hall. OK, minus the so-obviously-coked-out-that-she-wasn't-actually, aging hipster who kept climbing on her trucker-hat wearing boyfriend's shoulders and shouting.