Slow week? Get your adrenaline flowing tonight with some live music. Over at Gramercy Theatre, electro-pop group VHS or Beta incite a dance party with their New-Wave techno sound. These guys are sounding more and more like Daft Punk with every album. Moving Units and Soft open. Show starts at 8, and tickets are $18.

Downtown, surf-metal heads The Girraffes will bring their hilarious/outrageous antics to The Annex. Check out our interview with them. Chicago punks Ark opens, and stick around afterwards for Ruff Club. Tickets are $8.

If you're all the way in Brooklyn, stop by Sound Fix Records, where Australian crooners Dappled Cities will romance a crowd with their easy, laid-back sound. Portland collective Loch Lomond opens. Show starts at 8.