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We get to TT's in time for the last half of License's last song, and it turns out to be folks I know, so I wish I'd known that this is their band; I'd have tried to come earlier. (That half a song is promising, with a cellist and a bassist as well as guitar and drums, an unusual and intriguing combination.) Then it's Medications time. (If I were them, I would have the Nurse Ratched sample play every time I took the stage. But maybe that's too obvious.) They are a complicated DC power trio, with impassioned vocals, edgy, jumpy guitar lines, and all kinds of fantastically great rhythm. The first several songs are mostly interesting and unusual twelves and sixteens. Then, as the set progresses, they start to hit the odd times and their fans in the audience really freak out. Myself very much included. They have a perfect mix, with everything clearly audible, and their set just seems to race by way too fast. After them the bands rather fail to hold our interest, and we know a lot of people here tonight, so we hang out and chat for a while and then take off.
