Eight Gigs: Dante Elephante

You can almost hear the waves in Dante Elephante’s sunny, surf-inflected rock. The Santa Barbara-born indie band crafts up-tempo tunes with sweet harmonies, a ’90s aesthetic and bright guitar lines. But thematically, there’s a general, poetic mundanity that can only come from a suburban upbringing. Sure enough, singer-songwriter Ruben Zarate grew up in a small, bland and overwhelmingly white town, where he allegedly got pulled over 16 times over the course of one year because his car had tinted windows. Said car was, coincidentally, a Suburban. 946 Olive Drive in Davis, www.facebook.com/DanteElephante.