I only caught pieces of intense sets of indie rock and pop from the Zolas and Hollerado at the Slice, Nov. 7.
The room was packed and pretty close to sold out.
While I missed Pup’s opening set, I caught the last half of the Zolas’ quirky, keyboard powered set of catchy pop and indie rock music.
Most of the room had seen them before and were singing a long while bouncing in front of the stage. Former mayor Rajko Dodic was among th
em and watched intently from the back of the room.
Lead singer Zachery Gray played guitar and sang, then picked up a keyboard and traded keyboard lines with Tom Dobrzanski.
They had a solid backbeat and bone shaking bass. ‘Ancient Mars,” was one of the ambient and upbeat highlights of the show— one of many which had the room singing along.
I also only caught the end on another intense and energetic rock music from Hollerado.
While former mayor Rajko Dodic has got up on stage to play with them at their previous two shows, he didn’t this time.
“He’s retired now,” shouted lead singer Menno Versteeg. Nonetheless Hollerado played their usual energetic, upbeat set of addictive guitar powered ambient pop-rock with just a touch of punk energy. While the crowd appeared t
o have thinned out by the time they took the stage, they had most of the feet in the room tapping and lots of bodies shaking.
“We’ve played here five times before and I can’t believe we haven’t played this place,” Versteeg enthused to the rambunctious audience after playing arguably their most popular song ‘Philadelphia.’
They had everyone singing along to another popular number, ‘So It Goes.’
They launched into their last sing-along songs, effortlessly segued into a few bars of ZZ Top’s ‘La Grange’ and, after a brief drum solo, called it a night shortly before midnight.
