Crowbar regular Solaris will be returning to the stage for a rock show with The Drama Club and Teenage Girls at 9:30 p.m. Monday.

Doors open at 3 p.m.

Although this will be another almost weekly Crowbar appearance for Solaris, the band hasn't grown tired of it.

"It's the best thing in the world, I love playing The Crowbar," lead singer Ryan Russler said.

"From the time you walk in to the time you leave the stage, it's a rock club. I love the atmosphere."

Russler, who organized the show, said The Drama Club's lead singer is one of his favorites, adding that the performer would describe his band as "very poppy, but heavy."

"High energy rock 'n roll," is how The Drama Club lead singer Nick Coyle would categorize his band, he said.

Although considered pop rock by some, Coyle distinguishes the sound as having, "More solos and stuff. We came from the school of Guns 'N Roses."

Another band Coyle cited as an influence is the Stone Temple Pilots, but he said he and his bandmates listen to a wide range of music including bluegrass, country, metal and electronic.

"We just kinda pull from all of that," Coyle said.

On the other hand, '80s new-wave bands like The Cars, Archers of Loaf, The Pixies and Morrissey are influences on Teenage Girls, said lead singer Bob Zanicky.

"I grew up on The Smiths," Zanicky said.

But, he added, out of all these influences, none of them dominate the sound of Teenage Girls.

"We sound like so many bands we listened to when we were young that we sound like none of them," Zanicky said.

"We're very hard to categorize. We're rock, not hard rock, but catchy and obnoxious."

When listening to songs from Teenage Girls, one might catch echos of aforementioned bands.

"That's intentional," Zanicky said.

"We're throwing out props to the bands we listened to."

Zanicky even said he plans on incorporating some elements from Morissey's new album in future songs.

Both bands have music on the shelf: Greatest Hits is the new EP from The Drama Club, while The Failed EP and The Initial Assault: The Art of Friendship are out from Teenage Girls.

The Drama Club is currently promoting its new record, while Teenage Girls is in the process of recording a series of singles. Both bands are looking to get signed by a record label.

"Everyone's trying to get signed," Zanicky said.

"So we're playing music, some people come to see it, some don't."

The Drama Club is looking at labels also.

"Hopefully by the end of the year we'll know what's going on, and will go from there," Coyle said.

Business aside, both Coyle and Zanicky said they feel some nostalgia for the old days of rock 'n' roll.

"If you're in an emo or "screamo" band, you have that built in audience," Zanicky said. "It's a subculture [that emo has], but rock has no subculture any more."

Coyle agreed, and recalled days of partiers packing into Poison concerts.

"I used to go to shows and people were all about it," he said.

"There was a vibe, a culture; it would be cool to get that back."