Milk At Midnight...

...rock my world. No shit. This trio is white-hot right now. I kid you not. Intense pop-psych with bombastic drumming...think Secret machines with less hypnotism and more melody. And on methamphetamines. The show last night was marred only by the bartender accidentally cutting the band's set short by throwing on the house sound system too early. Some bands would have thrown a temper tantrum...but Milk At Midnight merely looked at the snafu as an opportunity to pee and then refill on beer. That's the behavior of a rock and/or roll professional.

Age Of The Rifle opened the show with their two-guitar/one-drummer JSBX influenced attack and even though this was only my third time seeing them they are quickly growing into one tight and hammer-headed unit.

The Venom Lords closed out the night with sweetly acidic harmonies and tee-yight songs. It was my first time seeing the group and they held up under the promise their vaunted pedigree -- all the players have been in some pretty great local bands in the past so this is a "supergroup" of sorts. My personal highlight was watching the interplay between punk-power couple Gina and Dan as they shared the stage together. It was definitely a mixture of, "Awwww, how sweet." and "Pump your fists in the air, motherfucker!"

Definitely one solid frickin' night with no complaints and lots of kudos from the peanut gallery.