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If it’s an audacious move to name your band after indie royalty Pavement’s first great pop song (“Summer Babe”), then it’s perhaps an equally dicey proposition to go around invoking summertime in a city not exactly known for a surplus of the season. Seattle band Summer Babes do both, brazenly, and if they don’t manage to resurrect a young Stephen Malkmus or usher in the 90 degree days early, they at least dole out some sweet, easy-going garage pop songs. Jeff Albertson of the Lights leads the band on guitar and vocals, singing in a high, keening voice that sometimes seems to almost crack but always just makes it back around the bend to the melody; he’s backed by second guitar, bass, drums, and keys (the latter played by an actual babe). This will be the band’s second summer, but they still come off as a young, scrappy act. With The Pytons, Eastern Grip. ERIC GRANDY
Fri., July 8, 10 p.m., 2011