Living in the immediate proximity of The Fillmore and Uptown Amphitheatre means overhearing good (and bad) concerts from time to time.

Overhearing Alice In Chains the other night, while jarring, wasn't all bad, but the funniest part for me had to be after the show when I was taking my high school-age cousin home after the show (he was working) and he was trying to figure out how he knew songs from a band that formed before he was born and has only put out one, maybe two albums in his lifetime.

It was about midway through the drive that we both figured it out.

Alice In Chains shares common ground with 2Pac, Nas, Pantera and even B.o.B as artists featured on last year's Madden video game. What's funny about songs on Madden is that it'll expose and make you sit through music you'd otherwise skip without hesitation but because it's part of the game you go along with it, a lot of times embedding it in your brain so much that you sing it during the day.

How else would a Black teenager from a neighborhood that's about as hood as Charlotte gets know Alice in Chains' "Them Bones" by heart?

So yeah, Alice in Chains...meet your new fan base!