This review by DCist contributor Genevieve Smith.

On the last night of a three-day local music extravaganza, DC9 played host to the Orange and Blue-liners as they hip-shimmied and head-bobbed to the musical-stylings of local acts Monopoli, Hello Tokyo, No Second Troy and Mira Stella Stella Mira. If Train and Coldplay are your jam, DC9 might have been your musical Mecca Saturday. But if you’re the sort that prefers to lurk in the dark corners of the Black Cat or the Warehouse Nextdoor, well, then take note of the following bands and avoid them like the plague.

MTV recruiters listen up: Saturday night’s performances showcased some crowd-approved, radio-friendly pop rock acts with well-groomed attractive lead singers who could croon the pants off you. This is the stuff TRL dreams are made of.

Kicking off the evening was the Matchbox 20-influenced quartet, Stella Mira, which mixed the earnest vocal-styling and lyrical platitudes of singer Joe Ciani-Dausch with the Slash-lite solos of guitarist Sean Cranford. Despite some upbeat ditties, Ciani-Dausch failed to persuade the not-yet-drunk-enough crowd to move closer to the stage and perceptibly move to the music. Yet by the time No Second Troy took the stage, the crowd had filled in, and some rhythmic motion was visible from the audience, mainly in the form of timid head nods. Rounding out their sound with piano and acoustic guitar, NST seems to take its musical cues from the acoustic college rock genre, with musical nods to the likes of U2, Springsteen and Dave Mathews Band. These are the songs college males seduce co-eds with.