The big time Todd P All-Stars Throwdown on Saturday at The Yard keeps expanding. Tha P’s site lists bands not including in the Yard’s current posting: Crystal Antlers, Ninjasonik, and the previously-unknown-to-your-SAK-correspondent x Wikkid, x Bloodlines (who are seemingly unGoogle-able). And don’t overlook your chance to catch Titus Andronicus at the start of their Shoegaze Across America Tour, as they are scheduled to self-destruct on Carroll St this weekend as well.

Titus Andronicus have a bright non-future ahead of them:

07/11/08  Maxwell’s - Hoboken, NJ
07/12/08  The Yard - New York, NY
07/13/08  Mercury Lounge - New York, NY

Rumors were recently heard that Pitchfork.tv filmed a performance by New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus at the Knitting Factory Tap Bar. That scenario seems quite likely now that The Airing Of Grievances, the new record from the Aggro-Shakespearean quintet, has been officially dubbed “Best New Music” with an 8.5.

The group are over-the-top bombast live, as your SAK correspondent learned when he saw them open up for their pals, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, at Cakeshop last year. It was a blistering, amped-up performance, the kind that TA deliver at both club shows and all-ages basement (or boathouse) ragers.

They don’t have a lot of dates lined up, just DIY smokespace Silent Barn and the Pitchfork Fest currently, but some kind of Summer Tour seems in the works for the lads. We don’t know what impact the Fork’s rave review will have on the boys going forward, but now our dear SAK readers are prepared for the bloody melee.