By DCist Music Contributor Justin Kielsgard.

The name Greenland refers not only to the world’s largest island, which floats around in the North Atlantic, but to arguably the District’s most underrated rock band. Like the territory of Greenland, this trio is quite misunderstood. Greenland the island isn’t green. It’s tundra, covered in ice. And Greenland the band isn’t just another three-piece with a gig, but a band on the rise.

Blending British Invasion-era pop and early 1980’s American rock (think The Kinks meet The Replacements) with literate, well-crafted lyrics, Greenland is a stylized mess of fun. Front man and lyricist Jamie Green’s cinematic narratives reveal secrets and earned insights rather than hurling clichés. At one moment detached, the next personal, Green’s lyrical sensibility is a compliment to the mélange in structure and style which the trio produces. A fertile bed of nuanced instrumentation, Greenland’s creative approach is not only refreshing, but laudable.

Greenland is Jamie Green on guitar and vocals, Tony Acampora on bass and vocals and Adam Kissick on drums. Greenland can next be seen this Sunday, September 18, with Seattle veterans The Makers and Thomas Lunch and The Drugs at DC9. Doors open at 9 p.m.