Backstage Pass

So here's a really good scenario for a band: It's playing songs at its CD release party that are so new, they aren't even on the CD.

Even better: The songs are just as catchy, if not more so, than the ones on its already-impressive CD.

This was the case at Bandcamp's CD release party Sunday night at the sold-out Boulton Center in Bay Shore.

The Seaford-based quartet played most of its forthcoming CD "Wanna Dance" (E.V.L.A.), including the once-and-future hits "Someone" and "Celebrity" ("You better know the words to this one," singer/guitarist Matthew Bair told the crowd, once they hit the sing-along part) as well as the strong songs "One Day" and "Brightest Dark."

Just as impressive, though, were new songs "Natalie Crush" and "Never Seen a Movie at All," which showed the band is continuing to move forward.

On a related note, Harlan Friedman, WLIR's music director, said he will be adding Bandcamp's new single "Fonzie Movement," a retro-rocker filtered through a Weezer-like sensibility, to the station's playlist on Tuesday.

SETLIST: Get to You / Thinking about You / Situation Lose Lose / Crash and Burn / One Day / Brightest Dark / Valentine / Someone / Natalie Crush / Face of the Planet / Never Watched a Movie at All / Fonzie Movement / Celebrity

Bandcamp plays Best Buy, 1050 Old Country Road, Westbury, at 6:30 p.m. Friday.