Devil In The Details with Superior, Greg The Hero, Saints & Poets and King Me at Sokol Underground

photos and words by Mike Machian

“If this show is only a dollar, the bands can’t be very good,” someone told the promoter before last Friday’s show at the Sokol Underground.

A few hundred kids disagreed and packed the Sokol Underground as BLACKLIST and Aorta Music & Management presented five bands for a dollar. The night started off with King Me, whose lead singer was celebrating her birthday that night. They celebrated by playing a very metal cover of N’Sync’s “Bye Bye Bye.” Saints & Poets was next, and their multiple singers rolled around on the stage when they weren't standing on top of lit platforms in front of the crowd. Then the crowd pushed into the front and sides of the stage to watch Greg the Hero and Superior play blistering sets. The night ended in the chaos of strobe lights and crowd surfers crashing onto the stage during Devil in the Details's debut performance.

I didn’t ask, but the sweaty, dazed crowd that filed out at the end of the night looked like they got their money's worth. See photos below: