Local H’s new single, “All the Kids Are Right,” is about a band that fails its fans with a live show that is “sluggish and a little slow.”

Singer/guitarist Scott Lucas and drummer Joe Daniels proved Thursday night that the song is not autobiographical.

The Zion, Ill. duo played a 90-minute set so intense the words “sluggish” and “slow” were temporarily destroyed from the vocabularies of the 200 sweaty heads glued to the stage at People’s Bar and Grill.

When Local H emerged from the dying grunge scene a few years ago, the group immediately garnered comparisons to Nirvana.

As good or bad as that may be, Lucas’s vocal strength and intricate guitar work (he plays a guitar rigged to both a lead and bass amp) is definitely Cobain-esque.

And Daniels, sitting behind his kit at the front of the stage, looks more like a boxer up against a new opponent each song than a musician.

Local H opened the show with the cow-bell-driven “Cool Magnet,” which introduced road manager/occasional member Gabe Rodriguez, who dueled with Lucas on the chorus “Cataract/Too cool for school.”

Mosh-inducing gems “Nothing Special” and “Deep Cut” road the high-vibing waves of “Magnet” until Lucas shifted the pace with a slowed-down solo version of “Eddie Vedder.”

Near the end of the tune, as the words “You know I am as good as dead” climbed up Lucas’s vocal chords, Daniels came in with a mammoth drum beat that would not slow down for the next six songs.

High points were “All-Right (Oh Yeah),” “Fritz’s Corner” and “Cha! Said the Kitty,” each of which were “stepped up a notch,” to quote “All the Kids Are Right.”

“Bound For The Floor” reminded fans how catchy the Lucas/Daniels combo can be, while “Scott-Rock” took a trip back to the early days of the Local H grunge experiments and served as perfect lead into an amazing version of “High Fiving MF.”

As an encore, the group sang loud the message portrayed on “Pack Up the Cats” with a cover of Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll.” Superjesus frontwoman Sarah McCloud then accompanied the guitar duo of Lucas and Wes Kidd, who had joined in on random parts all evening, for an AC/DC number.

A clever rendition of “All the Kids Are Right” followed as Lucas changed the words to “since you saw the show tonight.”

Kidd’s presence seemed unnecessary up until the encore, which was finalized by the mostly instrumental “Manifest Density.”

Lucas, Kidd and Daniels went out much like their Chicago neighbors, Smashing Pumpkins, with a 10-minute jam session seduced with feedback trickery and Sonic Youth-style noise rock.

As concert-goers fled the bar and phrases like “damn, that was amazing” filled the air, a certain song title came to mind: “All the Kids Are Right.”