An overcast sky, a slight chill in the air and a less-than-capacity crowd lent a dreary tinge to this year’s “Kiss The Summer Hello” concert Wednesday night in Coca-Cola Field.

But while it wasn’t an ideal day to lock lips with summer, the pop music fans in attendance didn’t care a whit.

With each hit song of the moment that blasted from the stage in left field, everyone on the ground and in the stands screamed like Joe Jonas had shown up at their front door with a puppy in one hand and a kitten in the other.

After “American Idol” alum Elliot Yamin kicked things off, the Chicago band the White Tie Affair took the stage. By hopping on the TPain train and incorporating the voice-correcting Auto-Tune effect into their sound, these guys are a bit more interesting at first than contemporaries like the All-American Rejects or Boys Like Girls. But unlike, say, Kanye West, they don’t use Auto-Tune as anything more than a gimmick — it doesn’t hide the fact that the White Tie Affair is another dime-a-dozen pop-punk act. Regardless, when they closed with their single “Candle (Sick And Tired),” the crowd was screaming so loud, I’m surprised the cloud cover stayed put.

Up next was Kevin Rudolf, the Cash Money Records rock/rap prodigy. This New York City native cut his teeth on tracks with Timbaland, so his inventive sound isn’t so surprising — a Neptunesmeets-Beastie Boys mix of distorted dance anthems. He could use some lyrical help, but Rudolf’s songs are memorable, especially “Coffee and Donuts,” which features some police siren mimicry that would make his label-mate Lil Wayne proud.

A solid as Rudolf was, however, the night’s award for originality goes to the Ting Tings, a Manchester, U. K., guitar and drum duo that’s nothing like The White Stripes. Vocalist/guitarist Katie White and drummer/vocalist/ sampler wrangler Jules De Martino fuse quirky pop, New Wave, minimalist funk and club music into one infectious song after another. In their 20-minute set, they treated us to adventurous live sampling, a bass drum/cowbell breakdown, a bevy of fantastic synth pop hooks and the kind of shout-along choruses that burn deep into your brain. Shades of Talking Heads, Kylie Minogue and LCD Soundsystem were felt throughout this performance — the latter artist’s influence loomed big as the duo tore through the fantastic single “Shut Up And Let Me Go.”

A Colorado dance/rap duo that features loud, Miami bass-style beats and tongue-in-cheek hip-hop stylings, 3OH!3’s music is as perplexing as its name. These guys have found success by making throwaway party songs that are indistinguishable from one another. But then what do I know? Everyone around me was thrilled, singing along to every word of the hit tune “Don’t Trust Me.”

As the temperature dipped well into the 50s, Aussie pop superstars the Veronicas — twin sisters Lisa and Jessica Origliasso — hit the stage. While their latest album, “Hook Me Up,” has gone triple platinum down under, the wild cheering that greeted their entrance showed that they’ve got quite the following around these parts as well. And their opening tune, “Untouched,” explained why. A bouncy bit of synth-rock that’s not going to hurt anybody, the song positions these ladies as a sort of 21st century Go-Gos — purveyors of airy, unimportant music that you can’t help but tap your foot to.

REVIEW

WHAT: Kiss the Summer Hello

WHEN: Wednesday night

WHERE: Coca-Cola Field