With its corporate restaurants, highway roadhouses and mom-and-pop dive bars, Independence has few entertainment options for the young rock-and-roll set. Damage Control, in a Noland Road strip mall, caters to those who want to eat while enjoying $2 happy-hour specials during the day and loud, live music and cheap beer at night. Occupying the same space as the former heavy-metal bar called the Pig (and, before that, Neiners), this red-black-and-chrome venue features a calendar full of hard-rock bands and serves an ambitious menu late into the night Monday through Saturday. If the aural assault from the stage is too much, there are high-top tables and video games on the other side of the bar.
