Evangelicals' Josh Jones / Photo by Charlotte Walters

It's hard to find many people who will make it out on a Monday night in downtown Athens, Georgia, but Norman, Oklahoma's outrageously awesome rock quartet Evangelicals made the west side of town come alive last night (Feb. 18) as they converted a crowd of in-the-loop music lovers at the Caledonia Lounge into psych rock believers. In a tiny space soaked in smoke, strobes, and blacklight-painted instruments, lead singer Josh Jones lit up the stage with his sizzling guitar and far soaring falsetto, conjuring everything between Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and a scare-laden shape of the Smiths.

With a preemptive warning from Jones, fans settled in at a safe distance from the speakers overhead as the foursome -- which packed equal parts punk rock and roaring psychedelia -- thrashed their way through tunes from their latest long-player The Evening Descends. One concertgoer even took things a little too far when testing the limits of the crowd by losing total self-control during the aptly titled track "Party Crashin'," and was subsequently kicked out of the intimate venue mid-song. The twinkles and taps of "Paperback Suicide," showcasing a shred similar to the brilliant bridge of "Blinded By The Light," kept things moving, while chants of "Strange things keep happening" in the haunted house-sounding song "Bellawood," made for a maddening finale as Jones slammed his snake-green snare drum so hard that it spilled into the crowd. Music fans beware, if you stumble upon a service run by these Evangelicals, earplugs are required along with your (Sunday's or) Monday's best.

We asked: Evangelicals are obviously named after the religious movement. If you were to start your own religious movement, what would your worshipers follow?

Name: John Matuszewski
Age: 23
Hometown: Purcellville, VA
Occupation: Photographer
"Hot dogs?"

Name: Cameron Hubbard
Age: 20
Hometown: Lilburn, GA
Occupation: Student
"Cupcakes."

Name: Tara Garrigan
Age: 21
Hometown: Red Bank, NJ
Occupation: Waitress
"Comic book superheroes."

Name: Bubby
Age: 26
Hometown: Athens, GA
Occupation: Produce clerk
"Gathering for live music and festivals."

Name: Lily Buckley
Age: 22
Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA
Occupation: Door girl at the 40 Watt
"Awkwardness and awkward situations."

Name: Liz Wheeler
Age: 23
Hometown: Singer Island, FL
Occupation: Bellydancer
"I really like strings and violins -- they give me a happy feeling."

Guitarist Todd Jackson / Photo by Charlotte Walters

Guitarist/vocalist Josh Jones / Photo by Charlotte Walters

Keyboardist Kyle Davis / Photo by Charlotte Walters

Evangelicals descend upon Caledonia Lounge / Photo by Charlotte Walters