The XYZ Affair will be at the Black Cat Backstage Sunday night. With the Teeth and the High Strung. $10. Is the XYZ Affair’s first proper full-length, A Few More Published Studies, a concept album about academia? If so, it’s anything but bookish. Give the band points for originality — quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald and echoing Queen isn’t exactly a natural combination — but give them more points for ambition, because this album is a…

Hailing from Fairfax, Virgina, Welbilt’s music may be defined as plethora of colorful hyphenated musical genres such as alternative power-pop, anthemic-rock, etc…but no matter how you choose classify the band, one word will ring true for anyone who experiences their sound….addictive. So what exactly is it about these guys that leave us always wanting more? It could be front man Nate Ihara’s powerful vocals, reminiscent of Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman, which make their often very simple…