Kevin Bronson on September 13th, 2015

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“Did you know that Tokyo Police Club is now 25% Los Angeles-based?” the Canadian quartet said via Twitter Saturday. “That makes tonight at the Regent a hometown show, and hometown shows rock.” So, welcome to the neighborhood, drummer Greg Alsop — you and your mates David Monks, Graham Wright and Josh Hook did your best to deliver on that promise Saturday night. TPC ripped through 19 songs, finishing with a cover of “Since U Been Gone” and hitting their 2010 album “Champ” (the second of their three full-lengths) the hardest, starting the show with “Breakneck Speed” and playing seven songs from it in all. They only touched on their debut album (with “Your English Is Good”) but played three songs that appeared on their first EP back in 2006, “Nature of the Experiment,” “Shoulders & Arms” and “Be Good.” As for their latest, last spring’s “Forcefield,” TPC played half of it, including “Hot Tonight,” “Argentina I, II, III” and “Tunnel Vision.” Local indie-rockers Max and the Moon opened the show with an exuberant set culled from their 2014 EP and four recent singles.

Photos by Carl Pocket, courtesy of Spaceland Presents