A wise fan knows to expect the unexpected at a U-Melt show. From the moment the New York City based quartet hits the stage, they grab the crowd with undeniably funky and infectious grooves that hit new levels when Rob Salzer's mind-bending guitar work and Zac Lasher's hypnotic, entrancing keyboards are given room to roam. Their improvisational work is made possible by Adam Bendy's innovative bass work and George Miller's brilliant drumming, which opens doors for Lasher and Salzer to treat the audience to heavy doses of their creative, free-flowing interplay. While on stage, U-Melt gives each song a full workout, sometimes stretching them to twenty minutes and beyond. After parsing through the many various ways to describe U-Melt's sound and vision, Lasher sums it up best, "There's jambands that are rock bands, jambands that are jazz bands, jambands that are funk bands, jambands that are trance bands, . . . and we're none of those, but then again, at times we're all of those."