Music Revolution in downtown's Plaza Park on Sept. 19 had a good mix of different musical styles, bands and performances.
American Fiction was first to come on. The band is from Oroville, and resembles Pearl Jam musically, and the way the singer performs is similar to Eddie Vedder's style. He puts a lot of emotion into his singing, which really added to the show and performance.
The members of American Fiction are: Daniel Vera on vocals, Matthew Hauk on guitar, Jake Daley on bass and Dave Hindman on drums. The band started when the members were in high school. It broke up and reunited one year ago.
American Fiction will be playing next at Moxie's Cafe and Gallery on Oct. 12.
The next band to play at the evening concert was Why Haters Always Trippin.
This band plays great hip-hop music. The music is upbeat and makes people want to dance, or at least tap their feet.
There are four members: Miguel Higinio on vocals, Mark Fisher playing both the keyboard and guitar, Ian Monat on bass and Nick Bearden on drums.
"I always wanted to be part of a band called WHAT," Higinio said. "Then Ian comes up with Why Haters Always Trippin and it worked perfectly."
Higinio is great with the crowd, and he talks between every song. WHAT is a great performance band, and the audience enjoyed watching it a lot.
Most of its songs are about trying to get a girl, but even so, the music sounds great and each player has his own character. Higinio dances most of the time while he sings, and has the charisma of a superstar. Monat dances while he's playing, too. He played well and gets style points for wearing a tank top that read "WHAT."
Fisher also adds his talents. He can play the keyboard with one hand while holding his guitar in the other.
Bearden is also an asset to the band because he can bust a good beat on the drums.
"These guys are good," Billy Strong of the band XYZ said. "I only give credit when credit's due, and these guys are good."
The band has been together almost two years and likes to play at parties. It plays its own music, as well as a few covers.
"We're more of a get-up-and-dance kind of band," Bearden said.
The band is getting popular around Chico and is starting to be classified as a neo-rhythm-and-blues type of band.
The last band ended the night with a sour note. Listeners should use earplugs if they plan on listening to this band. Esoteric plays extremely loud music and has more yelling than singing.
Esoteric acts like Rage Against the Machine, but tries a little too hard. The beginning of each song starts off like it will be good, but once all of the instruments begin to play, it sounds like a bunch of ruckus.
Kenny Williams is on vocals, and even though he does have a good voice, during most of the songs you can barely hear him or understand what he's saying.
The rest of the band members are Chris Andersen playing guitar, Josh Mossi on bass and Keith Vidra playing drums.
Esoteric plays songs that don't give out a good message. If it was playing in an environment with drunken people, something bad would probably happen. Its music is violent and disturbing.
Even most of the people in the audience had solemn faces while watching. Not many people seemed to enjoy it.
The Wednesday night concert was worth seeing. The first two bands gave great performances and were fun to watch.
Esoteric was disappointing, but maybe the band was just having a bad night. Each player has talent, but the talent doesn't mesh well.
Regardless, the show was good, and it's always nice to go watch a concert in the park.
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