Every band has a particular purpose. For Switchfoot and Anberlin, their purpose is something bigger than the ordinary band. When you listen to their music, you can’t help but feel moved, wanting to change something negative in your life and make it a positive. This translates to their live shows, and sometimes after a concert you walk away feeling really good. Well, this is what happened after this show.

Switchfoot took the stage to a roar of screams and kicked into “Mess Of Me,” one of the high-energy tracks off of their Grammy-winning album, Hello Hurricane. Switchfoot came to rock, and what a rock show it was. What was in store for NYC was a set full of the Switchfoot classics, and some new songs off Vice Verses, their eighth studio album, just released. Jon Foreman announced, “Even though our album is out next week, tonight is the release party NYC!” “The War Inside” was the first of the new tracks, and let me tell you this; these are the best songs Switchfoot has written.

Before “Dare You To Move,” Jon reminisced about the old days when the label dropped them because there were no “hits” on their first record.…