The Ghost In You, a.k.a. Billy Polard, has a new track that is aptly titled "Haunt You." The song aches with heartbreak as Polard’s mellifluous voice bears a concerning narrative. The emotive single is off his upcoming third album Heaven Help Us. 

The Guests open up the proceedings this evening at the Church. The band, which includes Kyle and Hart Seely of Sheer Mag, instill a provocative, cleansing air, as the rolling backend extends outward, synching the synth with one’s mind. However, an obscure, darkwave current looms, calling you into the shadows with an alluring, commanding voice. One is drawn toward the howl that lies just beyond the line of sight. Garage-pop quartet Marge maintain a rumbling forward instrumental core washed over vocal harmonies, creating a hardened yet accessible edge. With Talking Quietly of Anything With You due out April 15 via Double Double Whammy, the insightful, catchy observations of Free Cake For Every Creature thread the way to LVL UP. First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St., 7pm, $10, All Ages – Michael Colavita

Abandos are celebrating their first release since reshaping their sound, adding electronic drums and bass instead of live musicians. However drastic this renovation may sound, the dark, noisy deathrock element that the previous incarnation was built on has carried through and combined with with these new electronic influences to create a strange hybrid that sounds as much like Nine Inch Nails as it does Bauhaus. Vocalist Kyle Marchiafava’s delivery emphasizes vocal inflection rather than melody as he rhythmically sneers over glowering and dissonant guitar noise while the robotic drums create an industrial background effect, fit for strobe lights and gas masks. Abandos are having their release show at PhilaMOCA tonight with Vivatape, an offshoot of The Bad Doctors that play a danceable cyberspace noir with a techno backbeat, Cienfuegos, who specialize in hypnotic industrial noise, and SCC with pulsing, sliding and modulating noise designed to make you trip the fuck out. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 8pm, $10, All Ages – Bryce Woodcock

The Champagne Laughs, the latest release from Gorgeous Porch, a.k.a. Chris Wood, combines bright Casio keys and innate doses of backend grooves. The resulting output is bop-inducing, airy pop that aligns with your system. Distant, enchanting, soulful vocals seem to be whispering semi-conscious secrets, and through it all the ease of a cruising ride persists.

Who needs boys anyway when Fake Boyfriend can fulfill your every need? They can satisfy your desire for livid, scuzz-soaked grunge burners, your need for valuable, self-consciously contradictory emotional catharsis, and even your guilty longing for delicate, twee-sensible vocal harmonies. The band’s sound fluctuation inflates the loud-quiet dynamic of Babes In Toyland to the most radical proportion, intermittently paring down to a La Sera level dream pop before blasting into an apoplectic tantrum. Three voices converge into harmony just as readily as they deliberately push at each other through shouting intervals, creating a profound polarity between unity and discord (which we all love). Leave your real boyfriends at home to their videogames and emo-math rock revival bands, and come see Fake Boyfriend tonight at PhilaMOCA for their EP release show. Sharing the stage will be Shannen Moser performing soft, wistful music box vignettes, Secret Mountain, with the most melodically deadpan “tweemo” approach of the bill, and Lady Parts, with sweetly candid punk-lite confessionals. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St., 7pm, $7-$10, All Ages – Bryce Woodcock

Free Cake For Every Creature, a.k.a. Katie Bennett, just shared a new track called "First Summer in a City." It’s the latest single from her upcoming album Talk Quietly Of Anything With You, which will be out on April 15 via Double Double Whammy. Free Cake For Every Creature will also be hosting a release show on Saturday, April 16 at PhilaMOCA with support from Hello Shark, Addie Pray, and Microsoft Paint. (Photo by Allyssa Yohana)

Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band premiered a new jam on NPR early today called "Harmonius Dance." Forsyth originally wrote the composition for a solo 12-string acoustic guitar as part of a score for Everyone, a piece by choreographer Miguel Gutierrez. The recording with the full band will be found on the group’s forthcoming album The Rarity of Experience, set to drop on March 4 via No Quarter Records. Guitarists Chris Forsyth and Nick Millevoi will performing a special duo set opening for Tortoise on Friday, March 18 at Underground Arts, and the whole band will be back together again on Saturday, March 26 for its release show at PhilaMOCA.

Gradually emerge and awaken in the opening of “Nervous Sister” from Bella Vista Social Club. The single gathers a folky stretching momentum, lyrically describing a desire for distraction from the pensive pain, via inebriation. The track is the intial snippet from the band’s debut album Destroy, due out on March 4. They’ll be at Everybody Hits this evening, as part of a lineup that also includes Three Man Cannon, Emperor X, and Peter The Pianoeater (Peter Helmis of Dogs on Acid).

Pill Friends released a new album, titled Child Sacrifice. The record, which is available on vinyl and cassette via Out of Breath Records, continues the band’s ability to expose emotive vulnerability in an aching, fragile and oftentimes warped manner. Internal monologues gain infectious traction, transforming into a universal outcry that musically flows between moments of intimate tranquility and bursting forth anguish. (Photo by Sweeney Todd)

Below is a new music video for an Italo disco/syth-pop ditty, called "Wishing Well," from Carol Cleveland Sings, the bedroom-pop project of Gretchen Lohse and The Spinto Band‘s Thomas Hughes. The adorably cheesy video was directed and produced by the duo, and filmed at Planet Ten Studios. It’s the first single off Carol Cleveland Sings’s upcoming album, Effervescent Lure, which will be released via Humble Twin Records.