Source: The Buffalo News

A wonderfully diverse and powerful bill filled the program during Thursday at the Square, as a trio of young bands — median age 23 — thrilled an audience that started out large and got larger as the evening wore on…

…Augustana, from San Diego, was clearly the biggest draw of the evening, as it offered a rather stirring set of tunes culled, mostly, from its breakthrough effort, “All the Stars and Boulevards,” released by Epic Records in 2006.

In keeping with the theme of the evening, the band was fronted by a singer in possession of an excellent voice — a tenor, to boot. Dan Layus seems to be another Buckley acolyte, though such an assumption might be unfair.

Still, to hear a singer with such command of both range and pitch, singing deeply emotive melodies over slightly post-modern rock chord changes and arrangements leaves one with little choice but to drop the Buckley bomb. (Layus should take it as a compliment!)

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