Dan Bejar’s reputation as indie pop’s patron saint of indifference makes it even more disarming to watch him attempt to disappear in real time right in front of you. Touring behind Dan’s Boogie, another trip down self-glorification that he’s consistently been at since ‘98, Bejar fronted his namesake through an 85-minute set at Warehouse on Broadway on Sunday, October 19, that played like a live denial of the very idea of epiphanies. The tracks unwound, contorted, sped ahead and ran back; the group pulsed and swelled; Bejar stood at the helm, half-singing and half-cowering into his drink, possibly embarrassed that we’d be interested in staring directly at him.

A 30-minute rendition from Jennifer Castle opened the night as she arrived solo, guitar in hand, with a stage presence that almost

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