Mal De Mar make absurdly catchy indie pop, which, on Saturday, will be served along with the considerably more caustic Pioneers West and the experimental hard rock of Musuji. It’ll be a strange grouping, to be sure, but a bill so intriguing in its strangeness that one should hardly be blamed for failing to resist it. Mal De Mar, alone, shouldn’t be missed. Their “Bubble Bobble,” for example, is packed tight to bursting with neat hooks and goodwill, complete with an energetically falsetto chorus. This is the kind of music to send your head floating up into the cloudless sky of these increasingly warm Washington days. Pioneers West and Musuji will be there to usher you back into the sure-to-return rain and gloom to which we’ve grown far too accustomed.

[The New Frontier Lounge, with Pioneers West, Musuji, 9 p.m., cover TBA, 301 E. 25th St., Tacoma, 253.572.4020]