The Bad Dates, the Whore Moans

Saturday, August 9

Like your punk fast, easy, grrltastic and snarled out by a honey in Cherie Currie’s fishnets and sexy underpants? Then the Seattle’s own Bad Dates maybe just your cup of tea. Their take on girl punk (with a boy drummer in tow) isn’t reinventing the wheel by any means, but they are a fun, solidly raucous soundtrack for a night of dressing up, shooting whiskey and flirting with other girls’ boyfriends. Make sure to stick around for the always amazing Whore Moans, who are also quite worthy of a new outfit, inspire whiskey swigging and are so redonkulously cute that, if there is such a thing as groupie heaven, they’d qualify as the house band. These boys have got a new double disk due out at summer’s end, and had a line around the corner for two blocks to get into their show at the Capitol Hill Block Party, signaling they may soon be on the way to much bigger venues.

Sat., Aug. 9, 9:30 p.m., 2008