I am of the opinion that everyone sounds better live. There’s something to the passion people feel when they’re onstage, playing their own music, that you can actually see, it’s infectious. That, and they’ve had more practice than they did when they were recording their songs. It’s because of this, that I was very excited to see Braid (a band I hadn’t much listened to before) and Thursday (a band I’ve been jamming to for years) at a famous and storied place like the Metro. This was another installment in Riot Fest’s ‘Late Night’ series, a series of public after-parties played late night (shocker), the week preceding and during Riot Fest. Let’s get into it. First up was Braid, a pretty popular band who I had only heard of tra...