The Decibel Festival is still going on—check out Donte Park’s picks as well as what members of the music community are looking forward to. Opening night left Eric Grandy temporarily speechless, and it’s only going to get better.

Tonight’s U&Cs suggest:

IMPERIAL TEEN, BELLA, DERBY
(Crocodile) Truly deep friendships can endure extended periods with little or no interaction; with best buddies, a half-decade apart seems like just a few days once you click back into sync. So it is with indie-pop rockers Imperial Teen. Five years have elapsed since the California quartet’s last album, an interim filled with outside obligations—parenting, side projects, etc.—as the title of their latest, The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band, hints. But now they’re reunited, and it feels… hell, great. “Sweet Potato” shimmies and shakes like a sock hop where the milkshakes are spiked with bennies, while “Room with a View” sounds wise and wistful, with the merest hint of silver at the temples. Welcome back. KURT REIGHLEY

NO AGE, SEX VID, TALBOT TAGORA, FLEXIONS (Vera) Los Angeles duo No Age consist of two thirds of the excellent, deceased avant-punk band Wives. While No Age are far less aggressively mind-tickling than the more spastic Wives, their music is also more winningly free-roaming. Their recent debut on Fatcat, Weirdo Rippers, is, appropriately given its origin (the record is a compilation of various small vinyl releases), pleasantly all over the place. It veers from watery expanses of guitar murk to post-Ramones jolts of pop upheaval to dusty, soul-bleached instrumentals. Undoubtedly, their next record (conscripted for local zeitgeist lovers Sub Pop) will be of a more thought-threaded focus, but even in the action art messiness of Weirdo Rippers No Age manage many moments of unusual beauty. SAM MICKENS