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Sugarcult/Motion City Soundtrack/Letter Kills/More North There was a line outside The Metro that stretched around the corner made up of anxious kids getting ready for an awesome sold out show. In this chaotic amalgam were punk boys that were ready to kick someone’s ass and girls with homemade band t-shirts ready to get as close to the front as possible. We walked in and I prepared to see a shitty band that had changed their name again just so no one would catch on that they still suck. Let me tell you, I really suck at making predictions. More North was fantastic, but then again the last band I saw live was “My Chemical Romance” so I think I would have taken anything. The best thing about their performance was that they got the crowd moving towards the end of their set and had a pretty impressive stage presence for their first show. If ya want a mental picture for what they were like, think old school Allister, but with no Asian guy.
Motion City Soundtrack played next and were everything I exepected. Kids were bouncing around and singing and the crowd was falling all over each other and Motion City
Sugarcult started playing and everybody loved it. The Metro was soon filled with girls singing at the top of their lungs. "Marko 72" even got the crowd to mosh with their acoustic set. It was the second time ever attemped by Sugarcult. After being out of concert commission for three months, this was an awesome show to comeback to. XROXX Rating: XXXX (4 X's out of a possible 5 X’s) Austin James
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Next up was Letter Kills. I had seen these guys at Warped Tour Milwaukee and was hoping to get blown away again. Once again, they delivered with awesome vocals and amazing energy. The guys from Letter Kills got a little too whatever-core for my taste, but their music is still amazing. Vocalist Matt Shelton is screaming his way into the mainstream scene.
Soundtrack was pushing them ever deeper and farther. However, I was pissed that their keyboardist, Jesse Johnson, did not do his crowd pleasing trick, the moog handstand. I waited their entire set in the crowd trying to get a picture of it and he didn’t do it. Totally not cool dude. You owe me a Coke. 
Tim, singer for Sugarcult, told fellow XROXX writer Jayne Star and I in an interview we did with him for XROXX that they would be playing an acoustic show that night. We weren’t sure how this would go at all. They came out, adjusted their mics, sat down, and the kids were dumbfounded. Tim explained to the crowd that he messed up his ears and were doing part of their tour acoustically. I guess touring non-stop throughout four continents will do that.