Pop punk rockers Lucky Boys Confusion will pull into town Sunday night and headline the main room at Otto’s, 118 E. Lincoln Highway. Guitarist and vocalist Adam Krier recently talked to the Weekender twice, because of technical difficulties, and let us know what the band was currently up to.

Weekender: Where are you and what can you see?

Adam Krier: I’m in a luxurious apartment with really nice hardwood floors above a bar in Naperville in the downtown area. Everything in this room was made before 1985 with the exception of my DVD player and my CD player. There’s an old piano in the corner that needs to be tuned, so I should probably call a piano tuner about that.

WE: How’s the new album coming along?

AK: Well, we got off the "Suburban Cursed" tour last November and we basically took December off to relax. Starting in January and over the past six weeks, [lead singer] Stubhy and myself have been getting together a couple times a week to write and then the entire band, all five of us, get together about three or four times a week to work on new songs and put some new stuff together. We are trying to get enough stuff together so we can get three new tunes and demo those and begin to search for a new producer and a new record company.

WE: What’s up with the record company?

AK: We are no longer with our former label, Elektra Records, even though our last two tours have been the most successful tours that we ever did. When it comes time to put out a new record, we are going to need someone to help us with distribution and advertising and so on.

WE: Who is your favorite band to tour with?

AK: It’s hard to pick a favorite. You are on tour for so long and out on the road for four, five, and sometimes eight weeks at a time and you’re with about 20 people, who are from three or four different bands. You really get to know these people and you’re constantly around them and it’s kind of like a group of pirates going from town to town or something crazy like that and it’s a great experience and one of the best parts of being in a band.

WE: So what makes you "boys" so "lucky"?

AK: Ah, the name. We started back in 1997 and I was still in high school and I had just met Stubhy and he was the one who came up with the name. We were from Downers Grove and Lisle and we were supposed to be living in these great cities. Naperville was rated the No. 1 town in the country to raise children and we looked around and saw that our friends were going to jail and dropping out of school and overdosing, so the name just came from a real-life experience.

WE: Care to share a good printable road story?

AK: Well, we like to have fun with our hotel rooms. We turn them into waterparks, bars and grills; we tear off the head boards from the bed and joust with them and set off fireworks. We are in so many hotel rooms on tour that we are forced to get creative after a while. One time, I jumped out of a second story hotel room window and Stubhy thought it looked cool so he jumped out as well, but he ended up busting his ankle and spent the last two months of tour on crutches. He was a crippled rocker.

WE: What are you listening to right now?

AK: Razorlight, the Libertines, Bloc Party, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists as well as some older stuff. Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, the Dead Boys, Generation X and stuff like that.

WE: Why should students come out and see you Sunday night?

AK: Well, there’s nothing else to do on a Sunday night in DeKalb, right?

Chicago punk rock has always been a bit angry. With Alkaline Trio and the Tossers taking the most mundane of topics and throwing four power chords behind them, the product resulted in bitter, upbeat music.

These days, Fall Out Boy and Lucky Boys Confusion are making catchy punk music to satisfy the new wave of the angry youth.

So newcomers Plain White T’s should be no exception, right? Wrong.

While juxtaposing both happy and sad lyrics about losing a former flame over continuous 4/4 beats, the group showcases its ability to not try anything new.

The 13 songs are too simple. As soon as lead singer Tom Higgenson’s vocals end, the songs end. The band seems almost afraid to experiment and extend the song 30 seconds longer without vocals, attributes that would possibly increase the punk sound of the album.

And what’s a punk record without an acoustic-based track? The band tries to showcase its, ahem, softer side with "Hey There Delilah," a song that just oozes out sappiness in Higgenson’s vocals.

It sounds like the Plain White T’s need to add some color to its wardrobe.