If you're at all interested in seeing next weekend's Music and Art in Wright Park festival, it'd be best for you to come to The New Frontier Lounge on Saturday, where you'll get to preview several of the bands that will grace the Wright Park stage - including Basemint, Cody Foster Army, and the Speans.

One of these things is not like the other.

The Speans are something of an odd duck in Tacoma, and my awareness of the band has been hazily increasing over the past few months. I saw the awkward moniker on a NoMeansNo bill last year, but it didn't quite click. I'd occasionally see the band was playing a show, but never thought much of it. Recently, I was cornered at Puget Sound Pizza by a woman who excitedly told me I just had to check out the Speans' live show. She said it was unforgettable.

So what's the deal with the Speans? Find out here.

The Speans

with C.F.A., Basemint, auction and grab bags
Saturday, Aug. 14, 9 p.m., $5,
The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma
253.572.4020