By Lea Schmidt

Playing to an atypical and modest crowd at The Middle East in Cambridge, Local H, known for their hit “Bound for the Floor,” pushed the attendance numbers aside and rocked out.

This past Sunday night, with openers the Humanoids and Jucifer, Local H played downstairs at Cambridge’s quintessential rock club, to a crowd not often seen there. Any Middle East frequenter would know the typical crowd consists of the thick-rimmed glasses wearing, college kids of the Emo persuasion. Instead, Sunday night’s show brought out the flannel shirt and mullet type. The music rocked though, and mullet or no mullet, the audience was feeling it, and that’s all that matters.

When you hear Local H, it’s hard to believe all that intense sound is coming from just two people; singer/guitarist Scott Lucas and drummer Brian St. Clair. With 10-foot speakers on each side of the stage, it was like that commercial where the guy sits in front of the speaker and almost gets blown away by the sound. The band is probably best known for what everybody refers to as that copasetic song, which is actually titled “Bound for the Floor.” Songs like “High-Fiving MF,” “Hands on the Bible,” and “Eddie Vedder” displayed why the band is constantly compared to Nirvana, and, at the same time, why they deserve to be placed in their own category.

Lucas’ voice is very similar to the grunge rock front man we all know and love. But their sound, lyrics and style set them apart. Kurt Cobain didn’t stand up there playing both guitar and bass lines on the same instrument, as Lucas does. The band had the guts to make fun of themselves in their song, “All the Kids are Right.” Lucas used a Cobain-esq performance when singer repeatedly spit on the stage, threw a microphone or two, and demanded that an audience member get him a shot of whiskey from the sexy, bleached blonde hair, thick-rimmed glasses-wearing bartender.

The crowd could have been a little bigger, but other than that, it was everything a rock show should be.