The Sub City Take Action Tour rolled through Philadelphia on Feb. 21 hitting the stage at the Theatre of the Living Arts.

Along with headliners Cute Is What We Aim For were supporting acts Meg & Dia, Breathe Carolina, Every Avenue and Anarbor.

The Phoenix, AZ band Anarbor started the night off with hook-driven guitar riffs and catchy beats that immediately got the crowd moving. From the floor to the balcony, teenage girls and boys were waving their arms and those that new the words were singing along.

Head banging and hair whipping from every member of the band, Anarbor’s already short set flew by with their incredible energy and ability to get the crowd pumped. There couldn’t be a better way to start the show.

Every Avenue took the stage next prompting an eruption of cheers from the audience that left the band grinning.

Although their sound is more pop/rock than punk, vocalist David Ryan insisted the crowd start a circle pit, which the teenagers involved, obviously didn’t know how to do. The audience may have faltered at his request, but the energy never died between the two sets of people.

Fan favorite “Trading Heartbeats” had everyone jumping in unison while the band egged them on. The mutual appreciation between the band and their fans was more than evident from the beginning of the set to the end.

You could feel the anticipation of the crowd mount as Breathe Carolina set up their array of equipment and lights for their set. Just as they finished, screamer Kyle Even asked for the house lights to be dimmed and the audience literally went nuts.

Returning to the stage with hard rap beats as their soundtrack and multi-colored laser lights, Breathe Carolina turned the TLA into a rave.

Their combination of electronica and screamo created an intense, exciting and incredibly fun live show to witness. It was impossible to stand still, especially with the addictive tracks “That’s Classy” and “The Birds and the Bees” and their recently recorded cover of Miley Cyrus’ “See You Again” (which the crowd also knew every word to).

Breathe Carolina’s performance was, without question, the most memorable one of the night. Their unique style of music was a contributing factor, but their enthralling performance made the rest of the night just a little bland.

Meg & Dia graced the stage next, showcasing many of the songs from their up-and-coming album “Here, Here, and Here.” Performing in her signature bare feet, Dia’s vocals soared from the front of the venue to the back.

It’s not surprising that the crowd didn’t respond as much as they did with the previous bands, mainly because the twins’ sound comes from the complete opposite end of the spectrum.

While the band didn’t forget older tracks like “Roses”, their performance stuck to new ones such as “Hug Me ‘til You Drug Me,” “Black Wedding,” and a song they had written about a friend who drove drunk entitled “Halloween.”

Although Meg & Dia had a solid performance, they probably would have been better fit on a tour that wasn’t so energetic and entertaining.

After the girls left the stage, the audience starting pushing their way to the front to get as close as they possibly could to Cute Is What We Aim For. Teenage girls lined the barrier and had their cameras ready to snap a shot of frontman Shaant Hacikyan’s Zoolander-inspired face.

Instead of a decent roar, the crowd shrieked more than anything as the band walked out on the stage and broke into their first song.

Between songs, the band conducted submissive chatter and made a few remarks inappropriate for a crowd with a median age of 15.

Nonetheless, the audience was pleased to hear a variety of songs – especially old fan favorites like “The Curse of Curves” and “Lyrical Lies” (where frontman Hacikyan used the strangest facial expressions I’ve ever seen). Newer tracks like “Hollywood” (which was apparently written about Obama) “Doctor, Doctor” and “Practice Makes Perfect” gave the audience the songs they craved.

Although their set was lively and they performed a song they had written just for fun, they didn’t impress me anymore than they had in late 2006 – and that wasn’t very much.

The only good thing that can be said about Cute Is What We Aim For being chosen as the Take Action Tour’s headliner is that it got the tour the audience they want to take action – teenagers.