I've long been in love with the fizzy, cartoonishly bright power pop of the Hoot Hoots. With their driving indie rock, dressed with colorful costumes and embellished with lyrics about robots and dinosaurs, the Hoot Hoots have embodied the height of blissful optimism for me in the Pacific Northwest. Seeing them live is a sweaty, exuberant joy.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on The Hoot Hoots in the Music and Culture section.

THE HOOT HOOTS, w/ the Jesus Rehab, Fruit Juice, Trees and Timber, 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 20, The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, $5, 253.572.4020