Hooray for Earth's Noel Heroux, settling in. Pics by Puja, more below.

Better Than: Most Wednesday-night DJ residencies.

Last night, Hooray For Earth kicked off their month-long residency at Pianos, the first of four such November shows, all curated by the band. "We asked 16 bands to do it, and 13 said yes," said frontman Noel Heroux. "I don't personally know them all, but they're all musicians we feel affiliated with." Why? "We just want to have fun."

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Brooklyn's ArpLine certainly know their way around a synthesizer, blurting out rainbow squiggles that somehow temper their quirky pop with an easygoing, always fashionable New York cool. Equal parts geek and popular kid, it's hard to tell which John Hughes archetype these guys really embody -- a decision made all the more challenging by songs like "Parts Unknown" and "Weekend in the Colonies," which sound like Breakfast Club B-sides if Simply Red had accidentally discovered Suicide. Best not to think too hard and just get enraptured in the group's suffocating bursts of synth and Top Gun hooks. ArpLine's debut album, Travel Book, is due in the fall, co-produced by one the guys who made Beach House's Teenage Dream such a fluttery bliss bullet. The record's first single, "Fold Up Like a Piece of Paper," has a lot more nutso fun with a "Ghost Rider"-style synth sample than M.I.A. could ever dream up, and the corresponding video is just as spazzy, turning a bunch of still photos into a picnic gone haywire.