The streets are alive tonight with cacophonous bursts of jazzy cum and mangled Rock and Roll. A lonely neighborhood cool cat starts off the jam with a scratchy guitar, while a homeless dog plays the honky-tonk piano with a percussive fervor. Trash can fire vocals (sparked by the Mael brothers) howl at the moon, and soon a small audience of stoned Rock and Roll addicts surround the fire while Crazy Eyes feed it with their bludgeoning R’n’B stomp. With enough hooky noise and jumble jangle rhythms to hold up a small convenience store, Crazy Eyes toss swagger thoughtfully throughout the street; sometimes they throw in a pretty little ditty too, shedding sarcasm and spreading goo all over the city wherever they may go. While all the denizens of trash city chime in on the choruses and ring in the new era of grimy rock and roll prosperity.

Eula’s magnetic front woman Alyse Lamb and her musical partner/illustrator Chris Mulligan have added kickass avant-garde saxophonist Kate Mohanty to their project Parlor Walls. As great as their self-titled EP is to enjoy at loud volumes (not to mention free to download off Bandcamp), this is a band you really must experience live. Aside from rocking our favorite stages, they played a live score to a screening of The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari in March. Their songs navigate through tense, distorted worlds with a driven voice, colorful brass howls and hiccups, and bouts of enthusiasm. Even if you hate moving your feet, don’t be surprised if you’ve caught yourself with a case of bobble-head syndrome. Parlor Walls is playing a slew of shows this summer, beginning with: 6/2 at Shea Stadium, 6/5 at Big Irv’s (381 Hooper St., BK), 6/10 at Alphaville, 6/25 at The Cake Shop, and Alyse’s birthday show on 7/2 at Alphaville. Eula is playing Palisades 6/13 with Xiu Xiu. – Leora Mandel

This Friday May 22nd, Brooklyn’s Pavo Pavo will play their first ever show at Mercury Lounge. As heard on debut singles “Ran Ran Run”(streaming) and “Annie Hall,” the Yale-trained quintet offers spacious yet tight pop that is immediately pleasurable and continually intriguing. Their preference for mid tempo, fully arranged tunes enriched by lush vocal harmonies puts them on Grizzly Bear’s musical path, although this band is not afraid to take unexpected turns – like in Ran Ran Ran’s unpredictable bridge (minute 3.12). "Annie Hall" is a slower, soaring track that would find itself at home in a rock’n’roll opera’s bittersweet finale, and confirms the group’s remarkable musical sensibility. Cerebral and warm music like this is cause for excitement. The group’s debut album ‘Young Narrator’ in the Breakers is scheduled for release later this year. The band is scheduled to open for Deli favorite Lucius at Celebrate Brooklyn on 06.13, which is also a very good sign. – Zach Weg

The Black Atlas is the art rock project of NYC’s multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Peter Koronios. Towards the end of 2014 the band dropped debut EP "The Other," featuring three brooding, mysterious and rather unpredictable songs, monopolized by Peter’s austere tenor. We are now premiering single "Black Milk" from upcoming EP "Devils,"scheduled for a June 23rd release. The tune reveals an extra push in the band’s dark, complex and imaginative sonic soundscape. After a two plus minutes long textured instrumental intro, a melody as ascetic as the one in Velvet Underground’s "All Tomorrow’s Parties" emerges, filtered through the lens of Pink Floyd’s epic, post-modern psychedelic exhistentialism. The chorus unexpectedly alleviates the grieving, giving release to the verse’s tension, but without losing edge, thanks to the sudden introduction of an odd tempo that keeps things subtly unsettled. The Black Atlas will be celebrating the ‘Devils’ EP release at The McKittrick Hotel on June 16 – the perfect venue for a band that likes to dwell in mystery.

Since the band is comprised of musicians already active in semi-established acts LVL UP and Porches, Brooklyn’s Downies earns automatically the not so prestigious title of "semi-super-group." But the one song they have available online indeed showcases a band with semi-supernatural musical powers, in particular in the speed and melodic departments. "Widow" (streaming below) is a terrific pop tune that proceeds at dangerous pace, while unassuming vocals barely float in a sea of distorted guitars. You could call this pop punk, if the genre didn’t bring to mind a million screaming Greenday derivatives. Rather, Downies’ music seem to draw influences from the more humble records of the pioneers of melodic hardcore, Husker Du, although with a dreamier vocal style. This is stuff with potential, we are looking forward to hearing more at Palisades on May 21, when the band will support Big Ups and Krill at Palisades.

We added this song to The Deli’s playlist of Bestpunky songs by emerging NYC artists – check it out!