Libety Heights Tap Room’s Rockin’ Teens Showcase is beginning its third straight year. After the big article in New York Magazine in August highlighting the venue and Fiasco and Care Bears on Fire, the season got off to a rollicking start with an interesting line up of bands, in various stages of their evolution.

As the kids get older it’s less "isn’t this cute" and more… "wow this is a burgeoning rock scene." Did you know: Red Hook = the new Athen’s Georgia.

We missed:

Baby Battleships and Magnolia.

We heard:

–Fiasco sounding a lot like Tom Verlaine’s 1970’s band Television. Very tight, very much in control of their wild improvised sound.

–Too Busy Being Bored, a big group from Sag Harbor, New York with a punky Rolling Stones vibe. The drummer was top drawer.

–David Pollock Band. Melodic music with conga drum and good musicianship.

–Cool and Unusual. In their first gig in six months, the band was trying out new material and a new, very comfortable, funny stage persona. The new songs, including Odyssey and Procrastination sounded great. TS’s busted bass string was a bit of a bummer. But hey, the show must go on.

UP NEXT: October 14th Teens for the  Phillipines, a benefit concert by COOL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT RAPR, TETSUWAN FIREBALL, a sitar and tabla ensemble, and Baby Battleships. Only $10 to help build a home for Manila street children.  Five bucks for kids. Snacks and more.

NOV 11: Teen Showcase at LHTR: Good to Go and Kane Balser and Julia Harris.