Flyleaf, Lacey Sturm, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and The Mytch

One of the most awesome concerts I have ever attended was Flyleaf opening for Seether in Chicago years ago.

Flyleaf was awesome. Their offering of rock had nothing to do with the fact it was a lead female vocal. The crowd gave as much love to Flyleaf as they did to Seether. The audience was of a very wide range, it seems the listeners of Flyleaf don't discriminate. I loved seeing such a diverse audience. Flyleaf themselves were dressed in pretty standard black concert attire for rock bands.

Lacey, the lead vocal at the time, kept the whole audience enthralled with her voice. Her range from haunting to screaming loudly was amazing to see live.

I've listened to Flyleaf since they started getting airplay back in 2005. I usually don't like female vocals, especially when they're trying to perform rock, but there are a few exceptions and Flyleaf is one of them. She doesn't come across like "a girl trying to sing rock," she owns it. Not only that, but she has the ability to sound completely different from her other rock female counterparts. They have a new vocalist now, Kristen, who has taken the lead vocals and rocks it just as hard. Definitely worth seeing.

Lacey Sturm is someone you MUST SEE! She is the sweetest person, with the sweetest voice. She is defenantly one of my favorite people in this world! She's the best!

The fact that any band describes themself as being ‘post’ a certain genre - in the case of Scary Kids Scaring Kids, it’s post-hardcore - is an interesting enough quirk in itself, but it’s interesting to see how the Arizona outfit took that to an almost cartoonish extreme - even their band name was a cue taken from one of their influences, with Scary Kids Scaring Kids being the name of a Cap’n Jazz song, too. Over the course of an eight year career, Scary Kids Scaring Kids released two well-received full-lengths, The City Sleeps in Flames in 2005 and a self-titled follow-up in 2007, but it’s really their utterly raucous live shows that they’re best remembered for now; their blend of electronic and typical guitar sounds on tracks like ‘Degenerates’ made for a furious blend, with frontman Tyson Stevens eschewing the trend to aim for metalcore vocals by combining singing and screaming and instead just aiming for the latter, delivering his lyrics in delightfully unrefined fashion. After releasing a statement to fans in 2009 to tell them that they’d grown apart as people and wanted to disband, the group embarked on one final tour of the United States in an attempt to preserve their achievements; the sell-outs and the sheer feverishness of their fanbase stands as testament to the fact that they did indeed achieve that preservation.