State, Plastic Boyz, Amoebas 3-26-10

This went down at the painted lady, where the Blatz was flowing freely. I got there a bit late, but I wasn't too late to see the Statetotally rip it up. They played some songs off the new 7" called Excommunicated which I'm happy to say is just as ripping as anything from their recent releases. Cripes, this is like the third seven inch I've gotten my hands on from these veteran hardcore punks in the last six months or so. Hopefully they keep churning out the angry little slabs of wax. Kind of a shitty turn out, come on Detroit punks and hardcore kids WTF? The State is not something you should miss. So the Plastic Boyz were supposed to play last, but during the State's set their singer managed to break a glass on the ground, land on it and put a five inch long gash up his arm. More blood than I've ever seen at a show before. So the rest of those Plastic Boys soldiered on and tried to wing it through a set of mostly covers, which was sweet since they had help from the crowd. This really young kid someone told me is in a band called Spookswas snotting it up into the mic for some of it, so I'm going to try to check that band out now. I stuck around for this messy punk Karaoke for a little while, but it wore on my attention span quickly so I went to play D&D. Plastic Boyz had a demo and some totally sweet looking half ass patches i forgot to pick up. oops. Amoebas had a bunch of cool shirts and a 7", kinda bummed I missed them. I'll have to check them out soon.