If we were in the business of judging books by their covers, here’s what we would assume about the line-up at last night’s installment of the Six Points Music Festival: The Glory and the Majesty are emo, The Jaguar Club are a bunch of car enthusiasts, Life in a Hospital are bleak and brooding and Lejeune are French. Ultimately, only one of these assumptions proved correct; read on to satisfy your curiosity.

First up, Arlington’s The Glory and the Majesty set the evening off on a high note with upbeat, melodic pop songs full of bouncy energy and straightforward chord progressions. The trio’s ditties about sucky jobs and the alignment of the stars are reminiscent of Weezer and Fountains of Wayne, and frontman Alec Boyajy’s mock-serious banter between songs made G&M the evening’s biggest crowd-pleasers. G&M are so relentlessly chipper that even “Poor Old Shawna Grant,” which Boyajy described as as “a sad song, performed in C-sharp minor, perhaps the saddest key of all time” was sad in the same way that Sublime’s “Wrong Way” is sad: tragic subject matter packaged in such an earnest, optimistic way that it’s damn near impossible not to shake your hips a little bit. So it’s safe to say that The Glory and the Majesty are the opposite of emo.

Next up, Brooklyn’s arty, new-new-wavers The Jaguar Club kept the momentum going, opening with thumping percussion on the aptly titled “Beat of My Heart,” from their new EP, Ceci n’est pas le Club de Jaguar. It’s easy to see why the band garners comparisons to the Smiths: bassist Yoichiru Fujita channels Andy Rourke’s lush echo sound, and singer Will Popadic has Morrisey’s ability to turn “goodbye” into a five-syllable word. The Jaguar Club’s punchy, danceable rhythms belie some pretty somber lyrics, most notably on their best song, “The Sirens,” which seems to be an oblique reference to former bandmates dealing with substance abuse. As for their name, we can only surmise that they wanted the word “Jaguar” in there as an excuse for some really cool album artwork. It should also be noted that Fujita was sporting the best rock-star haircut we’ve seen in recent memory.