The Pacific Northwest doesn’t seem like the ideal place to make summer music. It’s no slouch when it comes to nice weather and rising temperatures, I guess, but it’s no southern California either. Plus there’s every other time of year, when it’s always grey and either raining or (as aptly demonstrated this week) flooding. So, uh, what’s the deal with the All Girl Summer Fun Band? I guess they have summers in Portland, but that’s about all I can say for the place as a hot destination in July.

Since their first single way back in 1999, the All Girl Summer Fun Band have dropped the more overt Summer references—no more polynesian luaus in their grass skirts—but have done the right thing and kept the Fun part. It’s still essentially super-cute girl group rock of the finest variety, exactly the sort of thing you’d imagine playing at a K-sponsored sock hop in someone’s basement, and it’s a year-round gift that keeps on giving. So even though it’s not summer, and the snow might be piling up by the foot outside, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t toss on a little twee-rock and steal yourself a boyfriend or girlfriend too.