Sheer Mag + Tweens

Harnessing the wall-to-wall riffage of ’70s power pop bands and the defiant swagger of punk rockers, Philly outfit Sheer Mag are a blaring force to be reckoned with. On the group's newest album, A Distant Call, lead singer Christina Halladay puts her powerful pipes to use atop anthems that explore a time in her life when she was laid off from her job, newly single and dealing with the sudden death of her estranged father. Cincinnati garage rockers Tweens serve as the evening's opening act.