The Strike + Kids That Fly at Music Box

A horn section in an indie-rock band shouldn't still feel like a small act of defiance, and yet -- and yet, when the trumpet line comes in on a Friday night, the whole room lifts. The Strike have been arriving in full five-piece configuration for ten years out of Salt Lake City, the catalog built to fill exactly this kind of night. Kids That Fly opens, and it's the right opener -- Salt Lake again, sibling band, same energy pitched at a different volume. Music Box downtown is the room for it: five hundred capacity, twenty dollars at the door. Bring the friend who dances the second the brass hits. The crowd is the Mormon-circuit indie kids who travel for shows like this plus the SD regulars who heard the trumpet line on Spotify and needed to see it live. Doors at seven, music at eight. Friday in San Diego.