Montana-based garage pop band Buddy Jackson sure know their way around a good "woh-oh." While there's certainly a good amount of fuzzed-out thrashing, Buddy Jackson always give you plenty of sugar to let the medicine go down. Melody and a good sing-along chorus seem to always be at the front of their minds, even when the lead vocals get pushed to the edge of a scream. Listening to their music, it's easy to imagine it being the platonic ideal of those goofy middle school friends that get together in their dad's garage and forms a band - maybe it's their cheekily confrontational statement of how their dads could beat up our dads that helps to give off that impression. This is music for sweaty, sloppy mosh pits in exactly the kind of concrete box that Le Voyeur is. Elbow pads may be advisable.

BUDDY JACKSON, w/ Chasing Hornets, Hold Fast, 10 p.m., Le Voyeur, 404 E. Fourth Ave., Olympia, $3, 360.943.5710