The Pittsburgh-based indie rock band White Like Fire played a show at The Thought Lot on Friday to coincide with the release of its fourth album, “Wait The Night Out”, which came out last Tuesday.

They were supported by two other bands – the local Go Sing It, Go Sing It and the Lancaster-based The Stonewall Vessels.

Following the end of The Stonewall Vessels’ set, White Like Fire screened a music video for the song “Crimson,” off its new album. The music video shows the band dressed in suits, playing to a masked audience inside a club, which transitions outdoors.

White Like Fire performed an hour-long set, which contained five of the six tracks on their album, as well as several other songs, omitting only the album’s title track. The set was non-stop energy from start to finish, with the band stopping to introduce themselves, only to launch into the rest of the songs.

Following the end of the set, both White Like Fire and The Stonewall Vessels stayed at the Thought Lot to talk to fans, autograph merchandise and answer questions.

The band members were very excited for the album’s release, since its subject matter is about something very dear to them.

“It’s about the underground art community in Appalachia, and it’s about not giving up,” said lead guitarist Blake Clawson. The art community and, specifically, The Thought Lot, is something very dear to the band, and they can frequently be seen playing shows at the venue or otherwise supporting the local art community. In fact, White Like Fire has been one of the driving forces behind The Thought Lot’s improvement and they strive to support it whenever they can.

White Like Fire started in 2011 as the brainchild of Blake and his brother, Tyler, the band’s vocalist. The band was initially just the two of them playing shows in Pittsburgh, but they soon recruited drummer A.J. Dawson, keyboardist Mick Dempsey and bassist Scooter McFadden, who round out White Like Fire’s current lineup.

“It was the only thing that jumped out at us in life,” said Clawson in regard to the band’s inspiration. The band certainly seemed inspired as they played, bantering with the crowd or pumping them up to dance along with the music.

Clawson ventured out into the audience, several times, even playing part of his section of the song while crowd surfing. The crowd seemed to feed off of the band’s energy and, even though they did not dance much, the whistles, cheers and applause that erupted after and, on occasion, during several songs was more than enough proof that the crowd enjoyed the band’s performance just as much as the band enjoyed playing. 

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