Wednesday night was a perfect example of why foresight is an important trait to any show-going youngster. While an early sellout left many people out in the cold, the show inside was a striking opposite of the usual apathy that surrounds shows in DeKalb.

Despite all the pre-show drama, Crystal Castles came on and performed like the up-and-coming hype band they are. To be able to picture what went on during the set, imagine something like a dance party in strobe lights over Nintendo-type electronic music.

The band played songs from its newest, self-titled album, and singer Alice Glass truly dominated the stage. In the flickering strobe that filled the entire venue, she jumped around, singing and shouting with all the tenacity of a truly big-time entertainer. Think of a female Wayne Newton mixed with a really screechy cat.

Despite the too-short set, the crowd really got into it, dancing like it was going out of style. Afterward, senior art major Mike Kitchell said, “It was one hell of a show.”

Preceeding Crystal Castles was Health, which can only be described as “interesting.” Though the international coalition of really-tall-people stationed near the front of the stage made seeing anything exceedingly difficult, Health’s energy and spazz kept the crowd in a trance-like state of awe.

The band played a short set, but when it was done, people flocked over to the band’s merchandise table to shell out their hard-earned dollars.

Local “pink metal” band, Heart Shaped Hate, played an intense, short set prior to Health, packed with their uncomfortably fun levels of rock. It seems like every time the band plays here, more and more people rock out to its sets. The band played some old stuff and some new stuff, and for about 20 solid minutes, the House Café was awestruck.

Eyes opened the show, and the band’s overly weird and strange arrangements were not necessarily the thing the crowd wanted to see, but it was sure fun to see the band flail all over the stage over a wall of noise. However, the crowd did warm up a bit to Eyes near the end of the set, moving apathetically as scenesters do.