Dragonette

Sat., Aug. 14, 9:30 p.m., $12, with Shy Child, Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., 877-435-9849, johnnybrendas.com.

by K. Ross Hoffman

dance pop/rock

Canadian retro-wavers Dragonette want nothing more than to come off as total wanton sleazeballs. They've got the backstory for it — the band's genesis was an adulterous tryst backstage at a musical festival — and plenty of deliciously impious refrains ("I say yes when I oughtta say no"). But their Go-Go's-grade spunkiness and the sweetness of Martina Sobrara's melodies, combined with their adorable habit of injecting their hook-perfect electro-pop songs with gratuitous handclaps, banjos, Bollywood beats or Tin Pan Alley twinkle, makes them just too cuddly to spurn.