Michael Cera Palin, Dream Machine, Inside Slurs, Hell Motel

If you couldn’t tell from the elite strained-pun band name, Atlanta rock trio Michael Cera Palin has a pretty decent sense of humor. But the group isn’t a one-joke pony. The band’s sound mixes the sonic elements of indie rock, emo and pop punk with some incredibly dense literate lyrics. Not a ton of bands casually drop lines like “Oh, the casualty of casualties for some cheap crypto-valhalla for hellhounds!” (“Crypto”) or “When transient scripts rarely strike so deeply by their resemblance, do you hate me or am I just hard to please?” (“Bono!! Bono!!”). Calling to mind artists as disparate as AJJ and Jonathan Coulton, MCP offers a jolt of fresh sonic fun.

Michael Cera Palin, Dream Machine, Inside Slurs, Hell Motel • Sun, March 24 at 7:30 pm • $15 • All ages • The Big Dipper • 171 S. Washington St. • thebigdipperspokane.com