Showcase Unveils Sahem's Musical Hidden Gems

Some of Sachem's best-kept secrets came out on Friday to empty their lungs into the howling crowd in the Inside/Out garden at the Sachem Public Library. The library's Teen Department hosted a night of young, raw talent, showcasing four, all male, local teen bands including: Let's Be Serious, Deficitt, Six Three One and All Hands on Deck.

The packed out lawn and cool summer breeze was met by All Hands On Deck's muffled, oceanic "Dimes and Nickels," which quickly transitioned into a pop-y cover of Sublime's "What I Got."  In between songs there is a shout out to friend Evan, whoever you are, and chants from the crowd.

As the electric guitar picks up energy on a cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes," the bass player thrashes in, showing he's got something to say. Their "Beans, Chicken and Rice" reinforces the bands So-Cal feel akin to genre natives Blink 182 or Goldfinger. 

Next up, Six Three One, stashing a starlet guitar solo and "harder" guitar riffs under their arm, starts out the way Jimmy Eat World's first album finishes: on point. Announcing "this song is popular on the radio" and hiding behind two different guitars, the lead singer ignites the audience with a cover of B.O.B.'s "Nothin' On You" that's surely sung in tune for some special little lady out there. Slow, steady, and grey, "Live Like You're Dying" is a whirlwind of manic, neurotic guitar solos filled with the trials and tribulations of high school love and all of it's young seriousness.

Trouncing their way in, Deficitt shoves out gritty, scremo-esque riffs that sludge a feeling of a tidal wave of epic proportions.  A gunshot would drum solo outlines "Imperfection" as the lead singer's forehead veins attempt to burst onto the front row, slowly intricate like the backdrop of a Mars Volta show. The boys strum right into "Broken Wings" feeding plenty of dark, ill-minded mantras that scathe the bottoms of an adolescent heart. The prove their right on their last song "We Are The Vikings" sung in a way a story telling Irish elf would sounds like. The rattling drums conquer the deep-throated yelps that jump out into the setting sun.

Let's Be Serious lightens the hang-ups dripping off the stage from Deficit and opens with a loud, fast paced "Everything's Again." Switching lead singers, "The Statue," designated as their acoustic offering on their new album, pumps up with stage romping solos and rifling lyrics like, "I guess what we had is gone." They finish the nights array of musical attire by thanking the audience and slamming into one more number zippered tight by a sharp, winding up zing of a guitar solo.