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Perhaps the result of these economical times, but satisfying triple bills continue to pop up throughout the District’s spring calendar, with Saturday night’s lineup at the Rock and Roll Hotel yet another convergence of quality and value.

Opening was New Zealand’s Surf City, whose self-titled 2008 EP has steadily garnered attention in all of the right places. Its moniker — an abbreviated homage to The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Kill Surf City” — belies a Californian sound, but not the freewheeling spirit. Live Surf City, a band often described as a missing link between The Strokes, a poppy Animal Collective and The Clean, owes its heaviest debt to JAMC, and its 30ish-minute set was a near constant stream of melodic fuzz.