A Night At Mohegan With Carly Rae Jepsen, The Wanted, And Soul Asylum

Fans scream for The Wanted, as the boy band performed at the Mohegan Sun Arena Friday night. (Nick Caito)

Mohegan Sun featured two divergent crowds and age groups Friday night, as Carly Rae Jepsen (you may have recently heard a song she sings, “Call Me Maybe“) and boy band The Wanted performed at the arena at Mohegan Sun.

While tweens screamed and cried at the appearance of their new favorite performing artists, their parents may have wished they were across the way at the Wolf Den, where stalwarts of early 90′s alt-rock Soul Asylum were playing a free show.

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Carly Rae Jepsen at the Mohegan Sun Arena Friday, August 24. (Nick Caito

Carly Rae Jepsen at the Mohegan Sun Arena Friday, August 24. (Nick Caito)

The Wanted performing at Mohegan Sun Arena on Friday, August 24. (Nick Caito)

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Timed almost perfectly with this journalists’ exit from the Arena came a familiar high-octave riff, one not heard very often since the sun set on alternative rock roughly 15 years ago.

An approach toward the open-aired Wolf Den made it clear Soul Asylum was riffing through their 1992 hit “Somebody To Shove.”

With long hair and torn jeans, it was suddenly believable that the Gulf War just ended, or that Bill Clinton was just elected. A small group of onlookers gathered around the Wolf Den to hear this familiar group bound through their hits from the 90′s, as well as the newly released “Delayed Reaction.”

Soul Asylum closed out with “Misery,” their ode to the corporate music monolith and another track essential to any alt-rock playlist.

Soul Asylum at the Wolf Den Friday night, August 24. (Nick Caito)

Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum gets the crowd pumped during their performance at the Wolf Den Friday, August 24. (Nick Caito)