One thing was for sure at the This Providence and Daphne Loves Derby show last night: it's all about the kids.

These two bands dwell in the infamy of quintessential youth, of unrequited love and two-week relationships. They remind me of driving through my hometown after a hard day in high school, with my windows down, sunroof open, sunglasses on and my best friend riding shotgun. We're singing as loud as we can, rockin' out to burned CDs.

Oh, those were the days.

I can't help but cite nostalgia because of the group of kids that came out to see these two bands last night. Because while Daphne Loves Derby and This Providence have been on the scene for at least five years, their fan base hasn't graduated from high school yet.

While the MySpace picture-taking mom-toting crowd was not really my scene, the music was excellent. Daphne Loves Derby played a great, low-key set with a lot of sweet-sounding guitar ballads and a few old-fashioned love songs. Kenny Choi, lead singer and guitar player, sold me with his endearingly shy stage persona and clear voice. Each word he sang was crystal perfect and the rest of the band was so on-target it was hard to not move with it.

Choi and his band thanked their fans for years of support on the Seattle home front, and Choi offered his fans the only gift he could:

"Our music is all we have to give," he said.

This Providence took the stage and the band's full sound resonated just as well as its albums. I was a little disappointed Providence didn't play more from "Our World's Divorce," the CD I connect with this band the most. A lot of what they did play was new music, which was great because I hadn't kept up with them lately.

While a few of the songs seemed interchangeable and had the formula of a lot of their older music, This Providence offered a new song that got the crowd pumped. It's called "Selfish," and they dedicated it to the gods of rock. The beat was a little harder and the bass line more pronounced than their previous material, an edgier direction for the band. Check out the song, it's bound to be a staple of their lineup, soon enough.

Other than the distracting fact that every member of This Providence had the same haircut, the band's sound was good, fun and energetic, just like its music. When lead singer Dan Young took the stage alone for an acoustic song, a sweet love tune, half the crowd tuned in while the rest talked amongst themselves. I hope Young didn't look out and see all the distracted youth in the audience: his song was great. I was listening.

That sort of distracted audience wasn't rare. For both the Daphne and This Providence sets the crowd just wouldn't shut up during romantic solo acoustic songs. Which brings me back to the fact that their fans are really young. Maybe they don't get it yet. I don't really understand.

A couple fun moments during the sets were Daphne's Third Eye Blind "Jumper" cover and This Providence's version of Tom Petty's "American Girl." It seemed the audience knew Third Eye Blind a little better than Tom Petty, though, which further suggested I was too old.