If only Portland’s Thermals lived in Seattle…can we claim a more able three-piece pop-punk band as our own (Speaker, Speaker, perhaps)? With each release, the Thermals’ music has become progressively more bombastic, leading up to “Welcome to the Planet,” which they played in a doomed house for the documentary Burn to Shine. On the heels of that, their latest EP for Sub Pop, Pillar of Salt, hits like a comic book lightning bolt, making rainbow-colored stars swim around your dazzled head. With Arthur & Yu and Coconut Coolouts, this show is one that’ll make you damn happy to live in the Northwest. With Arthur & Yu and Coconut Coolouts.

Listen to a sample of The Thermals’ “Here’s Your Future.”

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Sat., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., 2007