LIVE MUSIC IN TACOMA TONIGHT >>>

Here are two bands worth catching tonight at the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival.

Indie Pop: Two super nice guys play super cute music with super dark lyrics. I lived with one of them for a while in an insane house full of frogs and turtles. We ate frosting and rode a tandem bicycle. It sounds cute, but it was actually a depressing and lonely time in our lives. Now take that story and apply it to Terrordactyls' music. While the guys play ultra-friendly toy piano and kazoo, songwriter Michael Cadiz's lyrics reveal more subterranean complexities. You will adore them while they sing about two friends who murder each other because the summer ended. With Typhoon, Makeup Monsters, and Xylophones, Saturday, June 12, 6 p.m., all ages, $7, The Squawk Box, 745 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma - Heather Thomas Loepp

Electro Rock: Unfortunately I missed the days when one could smoke in a bar or club. Shortly before the law was passed to ban smoking indoors, an underage me snuck in a smoking session inside a local lounge. It was grey and candlelit, and it felt right to feel so bad. It took much longer before I could dance in public. It's still a rare occurrence. Reporter makes dance music as smoky and sinful and longing as my earlier crime. In all its caged-in smolder and swagger, it may be enough to make me reconsider the dance floor. With Strength, Saturday, June 12, 10 p.m., $8, The New Frontier Lounge, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020 - The Rev. Adam McKinney

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