At 10pm last night Aaron and I headed to Spaceland for the free Dios Malos “residency” show (they play Mondays all this month for free).

Cindy and Peter met us there. When we arrived Rolling Blackouts were on stage doing their best Rancid impression.

The crowd was a mix of kids that either borrowed their parents’ clothes, or their older brother/sister’s who was really into Grunge. A lot of flannel. A lot of tattoos. A lot of short and messy hair. Not a lot of shaving.

Dios took the stage over red lamps around 11pm. The songs were well played (their drummer is especially skillful and animated), and they had good stage presence. As the set wore on it got on my nerves how much they seemed to borrow from other bands. One song in particular I could have started singing the lyrics to Island in the Sun on top and not missed a beat (and I don’t like post-1996 weezer). Another song sounded a little too much like the beginning of the The End.

They played a song in the middle of the set that was introduced as “A Beck song from before 1996 when Beck started to suck.” I remembered the “truck” song from their last show and pondered if it was really a Beck song (Dios jokes around a lot on stage).

Apparently it is a Beck song called Fume from 1993.

Eventually the songs started to roll into one long Brian Wilson omage with too many triplets. At about ten till midnight Cindy, Aaron and I left Peter on his own.

Kind of a shame. Dios has some good tunes. They are even big enough to show up on Pandora. They chose not to play any of these more “radio friendly” songs last night (at least before we left).