The Midnight Pine + The Color Forty Nine

“Saturday at Soda Bar. SD indie band sounding like 1991…”

Soul-leaning songcraft from one band, jangle-forward melody from the other, and neither one needs an opener to warm up a Friday -- that's the co-headline you build when you actually respect both the room and the catalog. The Midnight Pine has been the San Diego soul-pop project to know for over a decade; The Color Forty Nine works the jangle-pop side with the same care. Music Box is the right place for a bill like this: five hundred capacity, downtown, the room that fills without anybody padding the lineup. Bring the friend who's in two other local bands. The crowd is the SD indie circuit -- players from three other groups, the tape-trader contingent, the people who heard the demos on the right SoundCloud and showed up specifically for this combination. Friday, August 21. Doors at seven, music at eight. Twenty to twenty-five at the door.