Mutemath is even amazing when they're not headlining!

Last night I went to Showbox SoDo to see MUTEMATH and 30 Seconds to Mars and skipped Neon Trees.

The 30 Seconds to Mars performance was subpar. Jared Leto seems like a jacka**. He's really full of himself and the show centered around him. I will say that it was kinda cool of him to scold the security guard for trying to get people off each others' shoulders, though. And props to him for specifying that they wouldn't go off and come back on for an encore, and instead just finishing the set outright.

But most of the show was him telling the audience what to do, except apparently he thought we could only do two things: 1) jump, 2) scream. It got old really fast. There was also a bit in the middle of the show where he somehow got to the where the sound engineer is in the middle of SoDo and he played an acoustic "set." I say "set" because he played half of about 4 different songs and then played an acoustic first half of "The Kill" and then made his way back to the stage where the band played the rest of the song.

MUTEMATH, on the other hand, didn't perform like openers. I went into that performance expecting them to play, finish, and get off, but I felt like they were headlining! Paul Meany even passed around his weird electronica/guitar thingy and the band threw out all their drumsticks, etc. at the end of their set. Of course, they didn't have time for a proper "Reset" encore, but they still played "Reset" and merged it into "Typical." The entire band was bursting with energy the entire time they were on stage, and even my friend, who generally doesn't like performances where he doesn't know any of the songs, enjoyed himself.