If you stand on the southeast edge of the Myrtle Broadway stop on the J and M train, you can see a light coming from the corner window of a building. That light emanates from the back of the stage of Market Hotel, a DIY music venue that has been in operation since the early 2000s, providing a stage for the best the New York music scene and beyond has to offer. While the space has recently become home for more techno events and themed DJ sets, they still house incredible lineups of local bands

There were quite a few barriers that concertgoers had to cross on the night of February 7th. If it wasn’t the lack of service at the nearby Jefferson Stop on the L train, it was traversing the below freezing temperatures. If it wasn’t the bitter cold, it was navigating the ice and snow still on the ground from the winter storm two weeks prior. However, even with all of these obstacles, Zone One was as packed as ever for Daffo’s New York headlining show.

There’s a peace that occurs in the space between every song Alec Duckart plays. It’s not the dead, empty, painstaking air that infiltrates the typical silence as an artist tunes their guitar or gets a sip of water but instead an understanding that something very special is happening underneath Rockefeller Center.