Hooves on the Turf

Passion Pit, Sky Larkin, Port O'Brien and more tonight

Passion Pit: Sleepyhead
Sky Larkin: Molten
Thao: Swimming
You Can Be a Wesley: Elephants in Rabbit Holes
Bodies of Water: Gold, Tan, Peach and Grey
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Who’s Laughing
David Shultz and The Skyline: Already There
Pepi Ginsberg: The Waterline
Port O’Brien: I Woke Up Today
Phonograph: In Your Mind
Glasser: Glad
Evangelicals: Skeleton Man
Peasant: Exposure
Wilco: White Light
Jennifer O’Connor: Here With Me
Choogin’: Father’s Day

Hurray for Passion Pit’s four-week residency kicking off at Pianos tonight. There’s going to be a lot of basic, pleasant pop rock there, except for Murray Flexor whose electronica would seem slightly out of place if it weren’t for Passion Pit’s own gadgetry. UK’s Sky Larkin will play an early set, and joining them are TheToothaches and You Can Be a Wesley. 

Port O’Brien should be fun (video above), playing with Bodies of Water and Peasant at Mercury Lounge, with an early show from The Cover Up // Glasser plays Cake Shop with Chooglin’ and Evangelicals // Thao plays Bowery Ballroom with The Get Down Stay Down, and opening the show there are the mellow Pepi Ginsberg, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, and David Shultz & The Skyline //  Wilco and Jennifer O’ Connor are playing at McCarren Pool, with a fitting after-party to follow at Union Hall with Phonograph and Salt & Samovar.

Au, Taken by Trees, Pwrfl Power and more tonight

Taken by Trees: Julia
The Gang: Sea So
Bears: Wait and See
Ghosty: Big Surrender
Au: We Are Animals
Pwrfl Power: Alma Song
Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band: Danny Callahan
Pistola: Chugs And Squeals (At The Amusement Park)
Evangelicals: Skeleton Man
Made Out of Babies: Cooker
Red Wire Black Wire: Compass Matter

Portland’s Au is playing two sets at Monkeytown with Mofongo, but seating is very limited and reservation is required // Stockholm’s Taken By Trees creates a luscious world within a sparse landscape, and these tender tunes, given their modesty, should sound pretty good at Union Hall’s tiny basement.

Pwrfl Power is classically-trained Japanese guitarist Kazutaka Nomura, who opts for idiosyncratic lyrics and an elemental framework of popular music these days–he goes so far as to sing, “Your boobs aren’t that gigantic / But that’s okay, I don’t like big girls anyway”. Though he usually does this over a rich fabric of a lone acoustic guitar, he goes electric sometimes. For the Cake Shop show tonight, let’s hope it’s acoustic. He will be joined by Bears, Ghosty, and be warned of estrogen overload, Fruit Machine and Heavy Flow (if this name isn’t clear enough, the logo consists of two tampons with bloody tips).

A house party at Santos’ Party House with: Machine Drum feat. Theophilus London (live PA), Stay High (live PA), Tanlines DJ Set (Eric of the Brothers + Jesse of, Professor Murder) +  Bulldozier DJs: Hearts of Darknesses, Stephen of Stars as Eyes.

Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band with Evangelicals at Bowery Ballroom // There’s some confusion about who’s playing at Grasslands tonight; Soren Well, The Gang, Black Swan Green and Linfinity are but My Teenage Stride is not. // Red Wire Black Wire, The Mumbles at McCarren Pool // Made Out Of Babies, PIGS, Pistola at Southpaw // Butch Walker, Jesse Malin at Webster Hall.