Speaker Speaker

This pop-punk trio is the first band I ever interviewed for this paper, back when they were releasing a little three-song EP called Again & Again & Again in 2005. It was impossibly fresh and infectious, making you want to play it . . . well, you know. Since then, it's been fun to watch them blast off, from playing to adoring crowds at Bumbershoot, to winning a certain local contest for up-and-coming bands in 2006, to covering Jawbreaker on their second EP, to having their debut full-length—released tonight!—produced by the king of this genre, Jawbox's J Robbins. Call It Off does not sound like "Nirvana and the Posies having a battle of the bands inside your stereo," as the P-I has written—it's a hyped-up Braid, a more fun Q and Not U, a more serious Dead Milkmen, an off-the-rails pop romance as unique as the three Seattle kids who made it. With the Lonely Forest and Hungry Pines. RACHEL SHIMP

Listen to a sample of Speaker Speaker's "Call It Off."