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The Brooklyn Masonic Temple—an imposing granite edifice that’s home to the Freemasons—also houses a small, hokey concert hall. Seeing a show here is a lot like watching a high school garage band rock the Rotary Club—the good, clean DIY vibes make up for a jerry-rigged, often fuzzy sound system and stark décor. A chandelier suspended from the ceiling and some geometric detailing provide the only ornamentation to the bare-bones, wooden-floored space, but you can get a great view of the show from pretty much anywhere, especially the wraparound balcony, complete with its original butt-cramp-inducing chipped wood seats. Theoretically, you can check out a Masonic Circle Dance here (your guess is as good as ours: we have yet to accrue the requisite amount of ‘white balls’ necessary for initiation), but the main draw is indie fare like Balkan Beat Box or Band of Horses; the venue’s booker, Brice Rosenbloom of boomBOOMpresents, envisions the venue as the only viable Fort Greene alternative to BAM’s sporadic lowbrow productions. — Ben Lebeaux