Hooves on the Turf

Death by Audio: As you’ll see in the picture after the jump, Brooklyn’s City Center makes music with percussion and lots of cables. Says one-man-band Fred, “It sounds like rattle rattle rattle sparrkkkkk wheeeerrrrrr,” which of course sounds kind of fabulous. He’s playing with old friend Hawnay Troof, who he insists is the one of the “party starters of our generation”, and whose record release is the occasion for the party tonight. Joining them are Vivian Girls, Urxed, and special guest(s). Urxed is mainly Robert Barber, who also plays in High Places, which Fred claims is quite possibly his favorite band after The Grateful Dead and Joy Division(!).

More bands and all mp3 links after the jump.

Union Pool: Kelly Rae, frontwoman of Zero Spanish, says, “The first thing people say when they come to see us is, Wow, I wasn’t expecting that! That was crazy!” Believing that exisiting recordings have so far failed to capture all of that excitment, the band will be spending the next two weeks recording an album that will strive to do justice. “We are far more aggressive and much louder than anyone ever expects,” she says, adding that she’s also finally become accustomed to singing, a task she’s taken on for the first time in her musical ventures. Zero Spanish is playing with Ghostfinger and Spottiswoode, who also goes by Spotty, and sometimes plays with his impresive gang Spottiswoode & His Enemies–”Somehow Spottiswoode has been able to hold together a gang of seven of New York’s finest musicians, put out a string of acclaimed records, perform residencies at New York’s best clubs, play Lincoln Center, tour the country, cross the ocean… all without paying his collaborators much more than a few dimes each”; but looks like tonight’s show is solo, and perhaps for that very reason.

Cake Shop: Brooklyn’s trio Treasure will be releasing 300 copies of a seven-song collection titled Tea Parties this week, and singer Amanda says the band’s dear friend and illustrator Maude Black will screen print and paint each copy with his tireless hands. The two took rough mixes of the songs “deep into the woods of North Idaho this summer, to a river cabin untouched since 1980″ where they wrote and drew. Black also illustrated a book of short stories Amanda wrote to go along with these songs. Her band mates Caleb Lindskoog and Ryan Trott are also members of Hologram, and Caleb heads another Brooklyn outfit, The Silver State. Treasure is sharing the stage tonight with Glass Ghost, founded by Eliot Krimsky of Flying; Boshra of Looker who will play a short set of solo material (and perhaps one Looker song?); and finally Aerial East, whose sweet song “Calculators” is included in the playlist. This is going to be Aerial’s first show; she’ll be playing with a band (Michael Leviton, Elliot Krimsky, Mike Bloch, Victor Magro, and Nat Johnson), and she feels it’s going to be “the best debut a girl could ask for”.

Mercury Lounge: Army Navy is headed by Justin Kennedy, who parted ways with Seattle’s band Pinwheel, whose other frontman Ben Gibbard then went on to form Death Cab Cutie and The Postal Service. Justin & friends have taken encouragement from bands like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah to abstain from major labels and produce their own debut album, which will come out on October 14th. Incidentally, producer Adam Lasus, who’s worked with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Helium, and Yo La Tengo will be aiding the boys. Playing with them tonight are Autodrone, who’s spent the summer writing new songs, and hopes to play the CMJ Festival and SXSW, and Saints and Lovers and Paul Holmes & the Patients.

Rehab: Radio America, This Reporter, Headfloss, Eastern Sweats // Le Poisson Rouge: Lou Reed, John Zorn // Monkeytown: Axolotl, Rings, Mark Morgan of Sightings, Bulbs // Southpaw: Federale, Illuminations, Charles Burst

Zebulon: The Loom is playing with Peasant, Essie Jain, and if you’ve yet to see the videos we made of The Loom, here’s one:

City Center: Bleed Blood
Zero Spanish: Sweetheart
Aerial East: Calculators
Glass Ghost: Like a Diamond
Peasant: Exposure
The Loom: Patience for Books
Vivian Girls: Where Do You Run To
Treasure: Rainbow
Illuminations: Rising
This Reporter: Letter
Rings: Mom Dance
Autodrone: Through the Backwoods