Total Slacker + California X + Hound

If big, fuzzy, anthemic punk is your thing, you'll want to turn up for California X, an Amherst, MA, band whose old-school bombast and way with a sugary hook—well represented on new album Nights in the Dark—reminds us of Nashville contemporaries Diarrhea Planet. As for the headliner, you get three guesses as to the way Total Slacker sounds. If you said hazy, '90s-flavored, shoegazing indie rock, you're right on the money.