The best upcoming shows at Market Hotel

Luis Vasquez, the secretive Californian behind the Soft Moon, inhabits old-fashioned goth much like his singer-songwriter peers cling to folk. His take on the style is mannered yet creepy, with spare synths and bass presented as murky echoes of Joy Division. Tonight the live-band version plays behind an album we included on our list of "2015's Best," Deeper.

Working as DIIV, Zachary Cole Smith & Co. crafted a killer debut in 2012 that blended shoegaze, pyschedelia and a pounding postpunk beat to dreamily delicious effect. In the meantime, lead singer Cole stumbled into love with indie-pop princess Sky Ferreira, in addition to a turbulent relationship with rehab and possession charges. Fortunately, it provides excellent source material for the highly anticipated double-album follow-up, Is the Is Are, delves deeper into the crew's dark, liquidy guitar rock textures.

In their folk-punk project Girlpool, high school friends Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker weave their voices in and out of each other above spare guitar melodies, shouting in unison as often as they spin vocal harmonies. The minimal instrumentation and arrangement makes every note meaningful and leaves little room for mistakes—an exposed artistic position which aligns perfectly with the kind of radically vulnerable lyrics found on last year's 10-song Before the World Was Big.

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Fusing her consummately vicious wordsmithery with a riot grrl image, queer rapper Mykki Blanco further proved her endless ability to transgress labels and conventions on last year's noisy collaboration project Mykki Blanco Presents C-ORE released on her new Dog Food imprint.