Foreign Born

Sat., March 13, 9 p.m., $10-$12, with Free Energy and Clovers, Mar Bar, 4000 Walnut St., 215-222-0800, marbarphilly.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

rock/pop

While not as overtly ethno-flecked as their multiculti kissing-cousins/alter egos, Fool's Gold, sunny L.A. denizens Foreign Born still ring true to their world-wandering moniker, folding plenty of burbling high-life licks and perkily percolating polyrhythms into their indigenous guitar pop. It's a pleasingly fluid fusion, more summer swelter than helter-skelter, from a traveling troupe that feel less like vampish weekenders than fully naturalized citizens of indie's global village.