Hailing from Edmonton in Alberta, Canada, Chris Connelly and Hot Panda make joyous, vibrant and super-melodic indie rock that has no other desire than to pick you up off your lazy, Twittering ass and spin you dizzy on the dance floor. Connelly's voice strains and spits from behind a wall of overdriven guitars and bouncing keys.

If I were in a cartoon, I'd have X's over my eyes.

Read why I said such a thing, and my interview with Connelly here.

Hot Panda

w/ the Long Mornings
Monday, Dec. 6, 6 p.m., $6
Northern, 321 Fourth Ave., Olympia
northernolympia.org