Whoever told Oklahoma-based space-pop rockers Sports that theirs was a band name that would enable them to stand out in a field of countless competing band-namers around the world is a bigger liar than whoever told Pharrell that he looks great wearing Smokey the Bear’s hat. Not to be confused with same-named bands in Ohio, New York, Florida, Texas, Las Vegas, Boston, or Philadelphia (despite the latter’s Facebook url proclaiming them “therealsports”), nor the Australian pop band, the Sports arriving at the Soda Bar on December 2 is the pseudo-psychedelic throwback pop act with two full-lengths to their name, Naked All the Time and their recent follow-up, People Can’t Stop Chillin’.

The video for “You Are the Right One” is as fuzzed out and trippy as the tune itself, replete with LSD trails, color shifts, and spinning kaleidoscope lenses, set to a dreamy Quaalude-drenched backdrop that, if you came across while spinning the radio dial, you might mistake for Lana Del Rey played a third slower. I spun several more of their tracks and found it all to be very Tears For Fears/World Party/the Church/XTC/etc.; i.e., liquid radio pop with a lava-lamp groove. Expect to see a lot of the local paisley underground scenesters, as well as far more corduroy, fringes and weirdly customized eyewear than can normally be found in San Diego that far from Newport Avenue.