Quirky pop comes and goes, but it’s refreshing for a band to make you actually feel the sugary onomatopoeia the genre gets its name from. If you’re looking for a Shins-lite kind of band with a Paul Simon twist, Cambridge, Mass.,-based duo You Won’t are available to provide your next summer soundtrack. Josh Arnoudse and Raky Sastri are pros when it comes to the fine line of musicianship and high-spirited playfulness, and their melodies will stick in your head for days. Their debut LP “Skeptic Goodbye” is full of songs that sway, bounce and cavort with tunes like the guitar-pop single “Three Car Garage.” Directed by the band in conjunction with Ewen Wright (together they are Cool Cat Productions), the wacky semi-stop animation video for the track isn’t too far off from their lighthearted musical characteristics as it takes one through Michel Gondry-like revelries.

||| Download: “Three Car Garage”

||| Also: Grab “Television” and “Who Knew”

||| Live: You Won’t play Thursday at the Satellite with Alcoholic Faith Mission and Noah & the MegaFauna.

Three-plus stages of music … headlining sets from Kinky, Autolux, Aloe Blacc and the Soft Pack … an abundance of great local bands … DJs from across the spectrum … comedy and spoken word performances … children’s music and children making music … and food, vendors information booths and more. This year’s bigger and bolder Silver Lake Jubilee has a lot to offer. The two-day street festival benefiting the Los Angeles Arts & Athletics Alliance (LAAAA) goes off Saturday and Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend on the streets near Sunset Junction. Weekend passes are $35.

After the jump, the complete set times as they stand now:

SATURDAY, MAY 26
Sunset Stage
12:05 — LACER
2:00 — Wildcat! Wildcat!
2:55 — Robert DeLong
3:50 — Catwalk
4:45 — Moses Campbell
5:40 — Allah-Las
6:35 — FIDLAR
7:30 — Las Cafeteras
8:35 — La Santa Cecilia
10:00 — Kinky

Hoover Stage
12:00 — Public School Rocks
2:25 — Leslie Stevens & the Badgers
3:20 — Dunes
4:15 — XBXRX
5:10 — JJAMZ
6:05 — Virtual Boy
7:00 — Matthewdavid
8:05 — Letting Up Despite Great Faults
9:30 — Autolux

Eagle Stage
4:45 — Threeway
5:40 — Black Boots
6:35 — The Mo-Odds
7:30 — The Record Company

El Cid Stage
3:15 — Leech
4:15 — Soft Metals
5:15 — LA Vampires
7:00 — Comedy hosted by Iliza Schlesinger
9:40 — Oedipa Maas
10:20 — Tom Hall
11:05 — Pure Ground
11:50 — M. Geddes Gengras
12:35 — The Black Watch

PEN Center Literary Stage
12:00 — Les Figues
1:00 — PEN in the classroom
2:00 — Tongue & Groove
3:00 — Moloss.us
4:00 — Matthew Timmons
5:00 — Amelia Gray
5:30 — White Girl Problems

LAAAA’s Block Party & Community Stage
12:00 — PEN in the classroom
1:00 — Sweat Spot
1:30 — LACER
2:00 — Sweat Spot
3:00 — Public School Rocks
5:00 — Sweat Spot
5:30 — Featherbeard
6:30 — Andres Renteria
7:15 — Ruthann Friedman

SUNDAY, MAY 27
Sunset Stage
12:05 — AV Club
1:00 — NO
1:55 — Batwings Catwings
2:50 — Summer Twins
3:45 — Incan Abraham
4:40 — Eastern Conference Champions
5:35 — Family of the Year
6:30 — La Sera
7:30 — Maya Jupiter
8:15 — Aloe Blacc

Hoover Stage
12:15 — The Breakfast Show
1:25 — The Silverlake Contemporary Ballet with The Lonely Wild
2:20 — Manhattan Murder Mystery
3:15 — Chasing Kings
4:10 — Princeton
5:05 — Lake
6:00 — Tearist
7:05 — Abe Vigoda
8:30 — The Soft Pack

Eagle Stage
3:45 — The Gay Gays
4:40 — The Dharma Bums
5:35 — The Mormons
6:30 — Bright Beast
7:30 — Little Guy

El Cid Stage
3:15 — Contact Field Orchestra
4:15 — Heatwave
5:15 — Gangi
7:00 — Comedy hosted by Iliza Schlesinger
10:00 — Gothic Tropic
11:00 — Touché
12:00 — Blue Jungle

PEN Center USA Literary Stage
12:00 — Los Angeles Review of Books
1:00 — 826LA
2:00 — Dirty Laundry Lit
3:00 — 2012 Emerging Voices
4:00 — Richard Lange
4:30 — Ben Loory
5:00 — Todd Zuniga / Jeremy Radin
5:30 — Jillian Lauren

LAAAA’s Block Party & Community Stage
12:00 — 826LA
1:25 — TBD
2:30 — Silver Lake Conservatory of Music
4:50 — Silverlake Contemporary Ballet
5:30 — Neighborhood Open Mic
6:45 — TBD
7:30 — The Downtown Train

L.A. audiences are accustomed to catching only glimpses of Xander Smith — when the strobe lights hit him right, or when his black-dressed figure emerges from the fog when he’s fronting his long-running shoegaze band Run Run Run. So it’s a minor shock to the senses to see him clearly, and clearly dialed back, on “Hey San Pedro,” Smith’s solo debut. The album, out this week, finds Smith channeling the pop and folk troubadours of the 1970s rather than the effects-laden rock of the ’90s. Gently orchestrated, sweetly melodic and paced like a walk in the park, “Hey San Pedro” is for the quieter, lucid moments that inevitably arrive, usually the morning after.

||| Download: “Down”

||| Live: Xander Smith celebrates his album release with an acoustic show tonight at Stories bookstore in Echo Park.

Your Wednesday show picks:

► Portugal. The Man, which recently wrapped up another big tour behind last year’s album “In the Mountains In the Clouds,” visit UCLA’s Royce Hall for a concert also featuring Haim and The Ten Thousand.
► Rocco DeLuca headlines the Satellite behind his haunting new album “Drugs ’N Hymns.”
► Xander Smith celebrates the release of his solo debut “Hey San Pedro” with an intimate set at Stories bookstore in Echo Park.
► The Henry Clay People continue their SoCal tour (Monday in Hollywood, Tuesday in Pioneertown …) by setting up shop at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach. The Muddy Reds and Shirley Rolls support.
► And Ethan and Barbara Gruska of the Belle Brigade appear and perform as part of the “Homegrown” series at the Grammy Museum.

Also:

Leftover Cuties, Benjamin Francis Leftwich and Mike Bloom at the Hotel Cafe
The Pinker Tones and the Singularity at the El Rey Theatre
John Digweed at the Mayan
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus at the Roxy
The BoDeans at the Troubadour
Chris Murray Combo, the Allentons and more at Dub Club’s Musical Blowout Party at the Echo and Echoplex
Tyler Lyle at Room 5
Yellow Alex and the Feelings, Gavin Turek and Maniac at the Bootleg Bar
Nosaj Thing at Low End Theory at the Airliner
Matt Chamberlain at the Mint
The Spazmatics, Ex-Gentlemen and London Souls at the Viper Room
Tic Tic Boom!, Y LUV and Fartbarf at Lot 1 Cafe
Lili Hadyn at WitzEnd
Vendetta Red at the Detroit Bar

First they were Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head. Then Natalie Portman, the actress herself, got it into her head that having an electro-pop band named in her honor wasn’t such a good idea, so they became Brite Futures. And now Brite Futures have decided to call it quits. The Seattle-based party animals made the announcement on Facebook today, saying their last show would be June 16 at the Vera Project in Seattle. They depart having released three albums (essentially, their debut was released twice, two years apart, after they signed to Warner), the most recent being “Dark Past” in November. And they gave a fun show at Buzz Bands LA’s SXSW party in 2011. Cheers.

If you think you’ve never heard of Brooklyn quartet Chappo, you’re probably wrong. Chances are you’ve heard their song “Come Home” in an iPod Touch commercial from two years ago. The track was originally off of their “Plastique Universe” EP, which was followed up by “Plastique Universe II: Pisces Princess” EP. After several short releases, David Feddock, Zac Colwell, Chris Olson, Alex Chappo finally release the album “Moonwater” (which was preceded by an EP of the same name) today as their first full-length via Majordomo Record/Shout! Factory. Over the years Chappo have merged their strong suits together by writing songs that are rowdy enough for rock and accessibly fun for pop, but the new record offers a new amalgamation they could easily own. Songs like “What Are You Kids On?” boasts psychedelic influences and garage rock sounds that twist and turn the kaleidoscope filter on their eclectic blend of pop-rock, and provides a fresh texture that playfully resonates.

||| Download: “What Are You Kids On?” in exchange for your e-mail address over a their website.

||| Watch: Check out their (NSFW) video for “Hell No” after the jump.

||| Live: Chappo play Friday at Bootleg and May 21 at Bardot.

Chop Love Carry Fire — the triumvirate of singer-bassist Jeremy Toback (Brad), guitairst Joel Graves (Everest) and drummer Butch Norton (Eels) — carved out a slot in our music mixes last August with their self-titled debut EP.  The song “Save” from that EP gets quite a video treatment from L.A.-based animation company Shipmate Title, which spent seven months fashioning and filming strange creatures seemingly bent on answering Life’s Big Questions. It’s a remarkable work in claymation, and spiritually touching to boot.

They’ve played to crowds of 20,000 in their native South Africa, and this spring they hiked 19,341-foot Mt. Kilimanjaro as part of a charitable campaign to end violence against women and children in Africa. But conquering America has been a slow climb for the Parlotones, the Johannesburg quartet whose four albums are the stuff of grand theater and swaying stadiums. The foursome of Kahn Morbee, Neil Pauw and Glenn and Paul Hodgson traversed the U.S. three times last year, and this time they embark on a 27-date tour with a new album in hand, “Journey Through the Shadows” (out last week). It’s an old-fashioned rock record the way British bands make rock records, muscle in every chord and rhythm, mystique and romanticism turned up to 11. Morbee’s voice recalls Muse’s Matthew Bellamy at times, and the Parlotones guitar crunch may bring to mind plenty of American alt-rock favorites, so “Journey” positions the Parlotones as rockers who, though far from home, bring a sound that isn’t.

||| Download: “Honey”

||| Live: The Parlotones play Thursday at the Roxy Theatre.

File under: This will more than suffice until we get the follow-up to “Get Color.” L.A.. noiseniks HEALTH today unveiled the first song from the soundtrack to the gritty video game “Max Payne 3,” and Rockstar Games (which released the title today) could hardly have recruited better composers to serenade the adventures of their violent hero. HEALTH talked to Pitchfork in March about the gig; the soundtrack album is out May 23. HEALTH’s last album “Get Color” came out in 2009, and they plan to have a new one ready this year.

||| Stream: “Tears”

||| Live: Health hosts a “Max Payne 3″ release party tonight at Pehrspace.

Photo by Jesse Lirola

As frontman of the San Diego quintet Dynamite Walls, Tom Pritchard traded in radio-friendly rock that fell somewhere between the Strokes and U2. Some amount of label turmoil later, Dynamite Walls is no more, and Pritchard, now ensconced in L.A., has aligned with Jason Burkhart (most recently spotted with rapper Kenan Bell) as Western Scene. With contributions from Jonathan Hischke and Dan Elkan, both of whom played with Broken Bells, along with drummer Joey Waronker, Western Scene has been recording with producer Hugo Nicolson (Primal Scream/Radiohead). Their first song “Listening” takes off like a hang glider, all churning percussion and wind-blown atmospherics. No live dates yet for the new band, but soon.

||| Download: “Listening”