You know what, it's Gemini season and I'm feeling it—the chaos, the wanting it both ways, the general buzziness that wafts through the air. It's apt that Seattle band Tacocat is playing a record release show at the Showbox during peak Gemini season. Everyone will be laughing and sobbing. Breaking up with their girlfriend while simultaneously working it out. Screaming with rage but also joy. It'll be happy raucousness.

The “neon-candy punk-pop” (thank you, music calendar editor Kim Selling) band Tacocat's latest record and debut on Sub Pop, This Mess Is a Place (a brilliant title), is a bright, tongue-in-cheek, punk, saccharine rumination on These Times We’re Living In. And while, yes, the political climate keeps getting shittier by the nanosecond, Tacocat know how to heal and charge forward while also making space to party. Be sure to put on “Grains of Salt” before you head out: It’s equal parts punchy and dancey, telling you not to forget to “remember who the fuck you are.” Yeah—Jasmyne!

Joining Tacocat is Seattle "locomotive punk" quartet NightTraiN and Rock 'n' Roll outfit Beverly Crusher—prepare to melt your face off to the sounds of grunge-y, riff-heavy angst.