The Garage

Mac DeMarco

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

The fantastic guitar-toting Canadian soft-rocker comes to London. His debut album, '2', is full of wearily romantic, chorus-heavy jams, all tied together by his disaffected drawl and hazy lyrics.

Mic Righteous + Dot Rotten

Categories, Pop and rock

Born in Margate, with Iranian heritage, Mic earned his rhyming stripes in Brixton collective The Kraftsmen and now spits dark lines solo, in a hostile Devlin style, but with less urgency. Plus fast-rising, slickly dressed and steady rhyming Stockwell...

The Doctor's Orders

Soul, funk and rap, Hip hop, Clubs

• Critics' choice

A once underground hip hop night, but less so these days as the Docs push on with unbridled success, that always attracts huge names from the golden age of NYC hip hop and beyond.

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

The Cuban Brothers

Categories, Pop and rock

This riotous and obscenely funky Cuban party quartet are less well known for their music as for their formidable breakdancing skills and handlebar moustaches. Tonight they play tracks from their most recent album ‘Yo Bonita’ with a full live band.

The Besnard Lakes

Categories, Pop and rock

Intriguingly beautiful, but often dark and disturbing mix of The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd and MBV from the well-regarded headlining husband-and-wife duo, who hail from Montreal.

Sophie Hunger

Categories, Pop and rock

Swiss singer-songwriter Hunger performs in the style of Feist or PJ Harvey.

Brian Nutter

Pop and rock, Country

If you can see past his amusing name, Nutter's alright. He plays infectiously upbeat pop-rock, with some impressive guitar work and a strong country and western feel – mind the banjo – that shows why he was picked as a touring rhythm guitarist by Keith...

Meursault

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Edinburgh's Meursault – named after the protagonist of Albert Camus's 'The Stranger' – veer between beautifully stripped-down, uke-driven alt.folk and synth-strafed electro. It's weird, but it works a treat.

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

Karl Phillips & The Midnight Ramblers

Categories, Pop and rock

Full-band grime and indie-scatting.

The Chapman Family

Indie rock

Although they used to sound a lot like fellow Teeside indie groups Maxïmo Park and The Futureheads, Stockton rockers The Chapman Family have moved on from their jittery post-punk past. Nowadays they're rather fond of massive, reverb-heavy guitars and...

Marnie Stern

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Imagine Karen O as a finger-tapping guitarist with an experimental bent and a whiff of riot-grrrl angst and you're coming close to New Yorker Stern's incredible sound.

Attention Thieves

Categories, Pop and rock

Post–hardcore screamy types headline.

Twenty One Pilots

Categories, Music

Piano-pop duo from Ohio who sing with a lot of angst.

KRS-One

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

A headline set from Lawrence Krisna Parker, the conscious, anti-gangster hip hop pioneer (and occasional university lecturer) behind Boogie Down Productions. Expect all the big 'uns, including 'Sound of da Police' and 'MCs Act Like They Don't Know', as...

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

Frankie And The Heartstrings

Categories, Pop and rock

Sunderland's sharply-dressed, super-jaunty indie-poppers, Frankie and co bring their Dexys-meets-'50s-styled swagger to town.

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

Nine Below Zero + Eddie And The Hot Rods

Classic rock, Punk and hardcore

Dennis Greaves’s hard-edged and smokin’ groove-merchants NBZ, favourites of London's post-punk R&B scene and one-time stars of 'The Young Ones', are joined by Southend pub-rockers The Hot Rods, who've retained one original member since their late-'70s...

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

The Pharcyde

Categories, Pop and rock

Loose-limbed and witty hip hop with a conscious edge from the brilliant LA crew, best known for their freewheeling mid-'90s anthem, 'Drop.' Tonight they'll be playing their debut album, 'Bizarre Ride II', in full.

Bloodshake

Alternative rock, Indie rock, Clubs, Britpop

• Critics' choice

Shake it up at this north London weekly, which plays the best of indie throughout the decades. From Pulp to Parquet Courts, The Strokes to Splashh and more. Also featuring guest DJ sets from hotly tipped acts.

Mission Of Burma

Punk and hardcore

• Critics' choice

This ia an exciting (and intimate) show by the seminal '80s post-punkers from Boston, MA. Aside from original tape-fiddler and live engineer Martin Swope – who's replaced by Bob Weston of Shellac – it's the original Mission line-up, with a set that'll...

Blue King Brown

Categories, Pop and rock

Australia's premiere reggae roots act BKB bring their big-bass, nine-piece conscious dub.