Camera Obscura play the Showbox at the Market tonight; Michaelangelo Matos discusses the band's new album as well as indie-pop's long standing love affair with libraries here:

Camera Obscura, Agent Ribbons, the Lonely Forest

(Showbox at the Market) It began innocently enough, as it tends to in indie-pop. I'd been playing the excellent new Camera Obscura album, My Maudlin Career (4AD)—or really more to the point, I'd been obsessively replaying its leadoff single, "French Navy." Everything about the track sparkles: sharp opening one-two floor tom, brisk Motown beat, obsessive orchestration, vocal melody to die for, the whole thing as twee as a basket of kittens but with enough real-world resonance to apply to adult life. (Or so I tell myself: I've read too many complaints about one of the song's lines, "You make me go ooh-ooh-ooh," not to note them here—but when you're talking about a romance as gooey as this tune is, you're going to have to face some ooh-ooh-oohs sooner or later.)

Casey Catherwood previews tonight's installment of the Aphonia Festival in Underage:

Paintings for Animals, Derek M. Johnson, Daedelum, the Precambrian

(Gallery 1412) Ben L. Robertson and Andrew Senna founded Seattle-based label Aphonia Recordings to promote artists who challenge the structures of popular music and to provide a place for the weird and bizarre. The label has released records by the likes of master cellist Derek M. Johnson and fuzz punks Mangled Bohemians, and has contributed acts to showcases like the Seattle Occultural Music Festival. This weekend, June 4—6, the label hosts its own showcase, the Aphonia Festival, at the Rendezvous (21+) and Gallery 1412 (all ages), highlighting the strange, harsh, and deafening bands that have helped make Aphonia a force in Seattle’s outré music community.

Ear Pwr, Alexis Gideon, Grrr, Elephant Kiss?

(Healthy Times Fun Club) If there's a style of music made for the (nice) kids who flock to shows at nonprofit venues, it's bands like Ear Pwr who come to mind. So it makes a lot of sense that these Baltimore spazzes will be playing HTFC tonight. On their debut disc for Carpark Records, Super Animal Brothers III, Ear Pwr play a hyper, candy-coated electro pop with cutesy male/female vocals, like if B-52s regressed to middle school, got hip to Italo disco and Bis, and consumed gallons of Jolt instead of Tony Montana—sized mounds of coke. Fizzy and frolicsome as they wanna be, Ear Pwr make Dan Deacon sound like Sunn 0))). DAVE SEGAL

KEXP's Audioasis: Wow & Flutter, Katharine Hepburn's Voice, Man Plus, Team Gina, Hoquiam

(Sunset) Grab a copy of Katharine Hepburn's Voice's new album, Stand Up, and head to the beach or a park or a plot of grass in the sunshine, spread out your blanket, lie down, and enjoy. There's barely a song over three minutes, but the smooth electronic beats bleed into one another between soft, poppy songs about falling in love and loving love and dancing and the other fine parts of life. The warm sun will kiss your face, KHV will whisper into your ear, and it will be the most sublime way to spend a warm spring evening. MEGAN SELING