I Just Read About That…

[ATTENDED: May 10, 2025] Miss Teen America

Parking around White Eagle Hall is a nightmare.  Despite arriving 25 minutes early for the show, I missed the first half of Miss Teen America.

But I did catch about half of their set and I enjoyed it quite a lot.

As I was watching I thought they had a really My Chemical Romance vibe.  But their earlier stuff.  It was very funny to me when, on my way back to the car, a young woman was talking with her friends and she said “That opening band was like what it must have been like to see My Chemical Romance when they first came out.  The singer even looked like Gerard Way.”

The band had a great look.  Their (new) bassist was awesome in fishnets and super high boots.  And their lead guitarist had a look that I couldn’t see all that well (the stage was pretty dark) but which was cool from afar.

They played four or five song while I was there including a song that they played together for the first time that night.  They describe themselves as traditional goth with “punk rock energy and a pop sensibility” and that’s pretty accurate.  I feel that the goth part is more from their look than their sound, but they definitely fall into the punkier side of goth.

Their lead singer was great–charismatic and engaging and he was especially thankful to Rodney and the Milkmen for the opportunity–they don’t have an agent or management and this was the first time they’d played to more than 150 people.  The crowd responded to them and I think everyone really enjoyed their set.

They gave out setlists after the show, but I was in the balcony so I didn’t get one and don’t know what they played.

Although if you see from the comments below, here is a possible setlist from the band themselves

Fake It
Stars
Saviors
Alien
Danse Macabre
Agogai
Undeserving
Take Me Back

TJ Coffino- vocals
Ashe – bass
Marcus Daquino- guitar
Alex Escobar- guitar
Tom Person- drums