What it was like
There is a specific age at which a song about wanting to leave your hometown stops being aspirational and becomes a memory, and this bill is built for the people on both sides of that line.
In Her Own Words came out of the fifth wave the way the good ones do — self-recorded, a following built entirely on people sending each other links, no radio involved at any point. Every Avenue are the older siblings on this lineup; if you were fourteen in 2009 and owned a studded belt, you already know Shh. Just Go With It by heart and you have not admitted that to anyone in a decade.
Four bands on a Friday at the Casbah is a lot of value for the money and a lot of sweat for the room. The floor gets genuinely warm by the third band and nobody minds.
This is a scene that never stopped. It just stopped being covered. The people in this room have been going the whole time and will be surprised you thought it ended.
Friday the second of October, half past seven, 2501 Kettner Blvd.