With their mixture of raw guitar licks, aggressive drums and catchy pop tunes, Tennessee indie rockers Superdrag proved you don’t have to be a heavyweight in the music industry to have a strong and supportive fan base. The M-Shop was filled with a quiet sense of anticipation that Saturday night would be a drag — no, a Superdrag. But in this case, that’s a good thing.The band connected with the audience of a small bar while at the same time giving the feeling of a major-venue performance.Before the show even started, the audience was beginning to crowd around the stage, their mouths salivating eagerly at the thought of what the night had in store.Shortly after 9 p.m. on Saturday, the opening act, The Put-Outs, took the stage. With their fast-paced, guitar-driven songs, they were able to wet the lips of the audience members in the night’s sold-out show. Some people in the crowd were so pumped up by The Put-Outs that they began dancing in a frenzy and screaming praises.At the end of The Put-Outs’ set, the audience was primed for Superdrag.After a short intermission, Superdrag took the stage and wasted little time before kicking off their set with the high energy “Keep it Close to Me,” the first track off their new album “In the Valley of Dying Stars.” Shortly after that came the crowd pleasers “Do the Vampire” and “Slot Machine.”Early in Superdrag’s set, a couple members of the audience requested a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird.” Frontman John Davis’ only response was a light-hearted, “Don’t tempt me.” During an earlier show in Texas, a fan had made the same request and the band replied by playing the song in its entirety. Unfortunately, there was to be no “Free Bird” at Saturday’s performance.Superdrag only slowed the tempo once, just long enough to play the dark, quiet anthem “Ambulance Driver.” Davis then announced, “This is where we get some audience participation,” ripping into a heavier version of “Sucked Out,” the band’s radio hit and most well- known tune. The crowd moved more intensely to the music at this point than at any other time during the night, all the while belting out the song’s lyrics. At one point, Davis quit singing the chorus, giving the task solely to the audience.Once Superdrag finished their main set, they graciously departed the stage to take a quick break. For the entire length of the break, the audience cheered encouragingly, pleased with how the show had gone so far. When Superdrag finally took the stage again, the cheering grew to a roar.”Do you mind if we play a few more songs?” Davis asked before kicking off their encore set of three songs. The last song of the encore was a cover of The Replacements’ “Bastards of Young.” “We didn’t write this song,” Davis said before starting, “but we wish we did.”