The Briefs, 7/31/05

On an unassuming Sunday night at Emo's, the underage punk kids were out in full mohawk-force, in part thanks to the street-punk bands Street Dogs (Boston) and Complete Control who opened for The Briefs (Seattle). Those two bands were a little Green Day-ish, not that there's anything wrong with that, and got the kids all riled up and wanting to stand up to The Man. The Briefs came out and brought us back to reality with songs about legendary bartenders ("Sylvia"), the happiness of having new shoes ("New Shoes"), and the paltry excuse for a musician that is Bob Seeger ("Silver Bullet"). I rode home with last year's "Sex Objects" record tucked in my bike bag.