I'll be the first to admit that I was definitely 100% more interested in seeing the War on Drugs Saturday night at the Luminary Center for the Arts than headliner, Sharon Van Etten.

The Billiken Club at St. Louis University is an intimate and inexpensive (as in free admission) way to enjoy some of the more buzzed-about bands in indie music. On Tuesday night the student-run music venue hosted Philadelphia's the War On Drugs and Brooklyn's Caveman, the first show of its fall lineup.

In the old, quiet-looking stone building resting across from Tower Grove Park on Kingshighway, there's something interesting going on. You go down some steps, enter a huge, low-ceilinged room that's furnished like a upper-middle class basement in West County -- low, warm lights, dry wall everywhere, marble-topped bar -- and find yourself surrounded by probably a lot of clean, wide-eyed young people you've never seen at other shows in St. Louis.

Move over Nancy Reagan, there's a new War on Drugs. Though it may not be fighting heroin, Philadelphia band the War on Drugs is getting noticed for its addictive blend of musical styles.