It sort of made sense that New York dance-rockers extraordinaire the Rapture played the Apple store in lower Manhattan last night — both the band and the company had new releases yesterday — but it was still weird to see four dudes rocking out in front of a screen where Apple holds Photoshop tutuorials. “I feel like I should be giving a PowerPoint presentation or a college lecture,” guitarist Luke Jenner told the assembled crowd. “They hooked us up with some killer graphics, though.” The Rapture’s half-hour long set mainly stuck to songs from their new album Pieces of the People We Love, with a few from 2003’s Echoes and the cowbell-heavy Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks. With the exception of a broken guitar string that forced the group to re-jigger their single, “Get Myself Into It,” the new material sounded flawless.

Mayhem broke out as the band began the opening strains of its 2003 hit, “House of Jealous Lovers,” inspiring the otherwise sedate crowd of a hundred or so fans to rise to their feet and commence flailing about mere inches from the band-members’ face, much to their shock and delight.

[photo: Abbey Braden]