The roots of Brooklyn-based indie art funk septet Ava Luna began in frontman Carlos Hernandez’s high-school bedroom, where he’d write and record songs beneath the name Ava. In university he fulfilled Julian Fader and Nathan Tompkins, as well as the three of these changed the music group name to Ava …

Formed in the first 2000s, U.K.-structured intensifying rock quintet Litmus craft genre-bending, sonic assaults that utilize components of rock, punk, shoegaze, and space rock. The band’s penchant for theatricality (intricate visible and audio presentations accompany their concert events) and epic jams that may go from four mins to thirty provides …