WITT studio 

File under exciting, promising news: WITT Community Radio 91.9 FM is opening a community outreach facility and studio on Massachusetts Avenue June 21. The space — 911 Massachusetts Ave. — has been donated by the Bikeline, so appropriately enough, the grand opening for the space begins with a bike ride taking off from the Bikeline in Broad Ripple and ending downtown. WITT isn’t on the air yet, so the studio isn’t operational, but a physical location is a great step forward, putting things in place for an airdate of fall 2008.

I can’t talk about more than the few minutes I stopped by late in the evening, but the WITT fundraiser Saturday, May 31 at Locals Only was really well-attended, with an outdoor stage fashioned from a loading dock, and the organizers Independent Band Collective and WITT well represented on the inside. Hey, Hey Melodica seems only to get better each time I hear them, with arrangements cohering, a tighter sound and more energy coming from the tunes themselves than the stage presence of lead tambourinist, trumpeter and sweaty dude Tucker. Anthoney’s Bright Eyes T-shirt prompted me to hear the similarity between his lyrics, delivery and the band’s busy and eclectic suites and Connor Oberst’s own refined lyrics and music.

This week: Second Story, stop I-69

June 5, The Second Story, a nonprofit writing workshop for young people, opens a storefront space in the Murphy Arts Center with a fundraiser and concert featuring locals Adam Kuhn and Beat Debris, Austin, Texas’s Real Live Tiger and Chicago’s Redbear. Music starts at 8 p.m. with the fundraiser kicking off at 7 p.m., and admission is by donation. More about Second Story at secondstoryindy.org.

Power-pop quartet The Delicious will distribute their excellent upcoming EP “Postcard to My Sewing Circle” (Joyful Noise) at a Friday night house concert in Broad Ripple. Lyrics are pretty off-kilter with snatches of polymathic sophistication (“Hokusai” refers to the Japanese woodprint master and Magritte, among other stuff, and “Cryptozoological All-Stars” cryptically details some sort of subterranean lab work). The music is catchy as hell, with cheerful chord progressions, occasional vocal harmony and generally quick tempi (although in not always toe-tapping shifting signatures). Three band members have jazz backgrounds, training that informs the intricate arrangements — in particular, drums by Ben Fowler are strong, precise and well-suited to the pieces. See joyfulnoiserecordings.com for details about the show.

The Stop I-69 Music Festival at Bloomington’s Animal Sanctuary falls on June 6 and 7 starting at 7 p.m. with music by Normanoak (the side project of Chris Barth from the Impossible Shapes), Dust from 1000 Years, kt the Band, Uno Moss, Caethura and a couple Nashville bands, Looks Like a Snake and Mother’s Best. There’s also plenty of workshops, including lessons in tree climbing and a primer on I-69. More at myspace.com/stopi69musicfestival.

The urge to recapture prom for the misfits and outsiders remains strong, and so the free-floating Punk Rock Prom — held last month at the Earth House for prom-age folks — lands at the Melody Inn this weekend during Punk Rock Night’s regularly scheduled time (Saturdays at 10:30 p.m.). Creepin’ Charley and the Boneyard Orchestra will play their first show after a hiatus this spring — spent recording their second full-length — and they will be the coolest prom band EVER. Also on the bill: fez-punks The Dockers, skatellites Lockstep and Northern Kentucky hard-rockers Lions Rampant.

thesociety (that’s all lower-case, automatic spell-check) has just about become the house band at Locals Only, and they’re a good fit, with solid songwriting and an accessible mid-’90s alt-rock sound. On June 7, they’ll be joined at Locals by Otto the Comic (another Locals regular), Weeds of Eden and Bloomington singer-songwriter John Dehner.

Finally, June 10, you’ve got a couple fine choices: the Pride of Indy Band Anniversary Concert at the Old Firehouse lands in the heart of Pride week, while Cliff Snyder kicks off his Indianapolis Songwriter’s Café Roots Night at Birdy’s.