This Wednesday, get ready to rock as the Plain White T’s head to the Pageant on Delmar. St. Louis is the seventh stop on the band’s Wonders of the Younger Tour.

Released December 2010, “Wonders of the Younger” is the Plain White T’s sixth studio album. “Wonders of the Younger” showcases a new direction for the band, marking a departure from their fast pop-punk sound that piqued the interest of Chicago fans in the early 2000s, when the band first began.

The group’s most recent release feels reminiscent of “Sgt. Pepper” with its straightforward chord progressions, youthful and idealistic lyrics, and fanciful transitions between tracks. All these elements work together to make the album feel like one continuous piece of art, rather than 14 separate tracks.

I had the opportunity to interview front man Tom Higgenson, who revealed a lot about both the album and the tour.

“We didn’t go into this thinking that we needed ten hits on this album,” Higgenson said. “We wanted it to take you places you’d never been before.”

And take you places it does. The album acts as a musical acid trip, highlighting the joys of youth, the naïveté of first love and the act of finding a niche in the world.

For those accustomed to the quirky and upbeat pop-punk of previous albums like “Our Time Now” and “All That We Needed” who want to hear more, their newest album is available for download on iTunes. Don’t want to spend the money?

“I have a hard enough time convincing my bandmates to buy records,” Higgenson said. “They’re the ones in the business and they’re the ones suffering.”

He also spoke of the good and bad of illegal downloading. “In some ways, it can be great. You want as many people as possible to hear your music. Who gives a s— if they download it offline or buy it off iTunes? As long as people are connecting to the music.”

But purchasing music is vital to the industry. “Without people spending money on music, there won’t be money to make music,” Higgenson said.

All dramatics aside, get ready for an awesome show—that epic feeling you get watching bands perform is something you can only experience at a live concert. You can’t buy or illegally download that experience.

The doors open at 7 p.m. Virginia-based Parachute and singer-songwriter Andy Grammer will open for the Plain White T’s. Parachute offers a classic pop beat—nothing too hard or too soft. Grammer doesn’t present anything we haven’t heard before from the pop scene, but he makes the familiar enjoyable—I can’t wait to see what happens once he finds his own sound. If you don’t have anything to do Wednesday night, come check out this concert. It will be a great time.