The tours just keep on coming. Last night was We Are Scientists supported by a slew of poor to mediocre indie rock bands who need to learn how to sing and stop saying hi to their parents.

We Are Scientists were pretty good – kind of an indie-punk-dance-pop sound. The bass player was definitely the star of the show. Witty inter-song comments, nerdy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar glasses, and porn-stache. And he really did play that bass with scientific precision.

Musically, the sound can be described as: guitar, heavily doused with reverb and medium distortion, noodles high up on the fretboard creating a spacey background; bass with kind of a hollow sound plays jittery dance-pop beats (think futuristic My Sharona bass line); and drums thwacking everything in sight propelling the whole mess forward. Not all songs were like this, of course, but that sums up the basics of what to expect. The singer is definitely trying to showcase two distinct voices – an emo croon and a more angry yell. Remember how Billy Corgan could swap between a serenade and a nasal screech? That’s where I’m going with this.