Festivalgoers can expect to see even entertaining performances during this year's Squeak and Squawk Music Festival in downtown Tacoma. The Hoot Hoots are known to dress up like robots or star people to enhance their power pop performance, and The Fame Riot is a Tacoma band notorious for its glam rock antics: leggings, sequins, guitar solos and all.

The Pacific Northwest is a haven for indie music and representation from Portland to Olympia and Tacoma to Everett will be on board. There are two shows a day: At 6 p.m., all-ages performances take place at the Library at Sanford and Son Antiques followed up with 9 p.m. shows at The New Frontier Lounge for those 21 and over.

Thursday, Sept. 12 kicks off the party with The Fame Riot, Xylophones and J. Martin, and the evening wraps up with I Like Science, Week of Wonder and People Under the Sun.

Friday at 6 p.m. is when to check out the all-ages Carletta Sue Kay performance, with Hands In and The Optimistics.

Saturday night has a dance party vibe with I Will Keep Your Ghost, DJs and more, and Sunday The Wheelies and Not From Brooklyn will jam. Monday offers free shows for both time slots and features Goat, Rowhouse and assorted friends.

Tickets are $7 per show. Tickets for any show, including festival passes, can be purchased at the venues - the Library at Sanford and Son Antiques and The New Frontier Lounge. For more info and a complete schedule, visit squeakandsquawk.com.

Read Nikki McCoy's full feature on the Squeak and Squawk Music Festival in the Music and Culture section.

SQUEAK AND SQUAWK MUSIC FESTIVAL, Sept. 12-16, The New Frontier Lounge and the Library at Sanford and Son Antiques, Tacoma, $7 per show

LINK: Squeak and Squawk 2013 band schedule and tickets

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