Has anyone seen our drummer?  Can anyone hit the skins?  Should we just play an acoustic set?  These were the revolving thoughts running through the minds of three baffled musicians last Wednesday as the Emergenza Festival returned to the High Pointe in St. Louis.  Where he was only the almighty gods of rimshots know, but he made it just in time to help the band SOMA take the top spot that night.  They played with a melodic, sometimes off beat style that was something refreshing and different from the same old, same old, you seem to hear from so many bands these days. Friday night, THE UNMUTUALS threw me back to my younger years with some old school punk that reminded me of my junior high days.  It wasn''t the "rip someone''s head off and piss down their throat" type punk, nor the politically charged, "take me seriously cause I have something important to say" type punk, it was just the "get yourself a beer and let''s have a fucking good time" type punk which I feel we should all listen to more of.  They finished the night off with an anthem in tribute to my least favorite music superstore called "FUCK GUITAR CENTER." And no, for all those of you who read these articles every week, I''m not getting this band mixed up with one from Chicago.  Apparently those guys piss off musicians all over the country, in fact, there''s probably a band in every city with a song by that title. Take a good drummer, fantastic bass player, even better guitarist and add bongos, a flute and screaming trumpet lines and what do you get?  We couldn''t figure out what to call it either except for unique.  It was rock, it was dance, it was poetry, but most of all, it was good and it was called LYRIC.  Diversity was the theme on Saturday as we also had some very talented song writers in the band TEAM TOMATO, some island feel added in by a terrific band called REMEDY, and a hard rock band called THE 9TH LIFE, named I''m sure because their crazy front man had already lived through the other eight lives. Sunday night belonged to the mailman, delivering the crowd and delivering the goods.  MAILMAN BITES DOG brought with them the largest following seen yet in St. Louis and didn''t stop there.  They were out to get all the votes, even trying to draw in the old farts like me with a great punk cover of the Modern English song "I Melt With You."  To all the bands that played this week, keep workin on it guys.  If you didn''t make it this time that doesn''t mean give it up, that just means give it more.