May in Advance

The Harlem Shakes at Maggie Mae's (SXSW)

What you need to know about in advance this month:

• Passion Pit and The Harlem Shakes are touring together, a/k/a the next step of The Shakes' impending takeover. Submit now. They play the Troubadour on the 28th and the Echoplex on the 29th. I insist that you go to at least one. I'm going to try to make it to both.

• Residencies: Avi Buffalo has the Tuesday night residency at the Echo, Gangi has the Monday night residency at Spaceland, Restavrant plays every Thursday at Silverlake Lounge, and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros play the Regent Theatre the first two Thursdays of the month.