Birthdays

Cakes Da Killer

LGBT

• Critics' choice

Debut UK show from US gay rapper Cake Da Killer, supported by London's own QBoy.

Dan Le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip

Categories, Music

Essex wordsmith Scroobius Pip and laptop-bothering producer Dan Le Sac deliver their urban performance poetry. Their pleasing marriage of electronic beats with satirical (but big-hearted) rhymes saw their zeitgeist-baiting first single 'Thou Shalt Always...

Men's Adventures

Alternative rock

• Critics' choice

Surf guitar-laden Americana dream-pop from this London duo.

The Mongoloids

Categories, Music

Raging hardcore form New Jersey.

Players Ball

Clubs, R&B, Funk, Hip hop, Soul

• Critics' choice

Southern Hospitality return to Shoreditch's East Village with their night named after an annual hip hop bash in Chicago, with the team promising the 'buckest, hypest and widest' music. Founders Rob Pursey and Davey Boy Smith will be banging out beats...

Popstrangers

Categories, Music

Grunge-y noise pop that loosely references early '90s Britpop and the Pixies, but more reverby.

Ssion

Disco, Pop, Synthpop, Funk

• Critics' choice

Cody Critcheloe has done many things in his time. He's directed videos for Peaches, The Gossip and Liars, designed album artwork for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and released a dozen records with his disco-pop group Ssion since he started making music in 1996. But...

Talk In Colour

Alternative rock, Electronica

Epic, harp-assisted female-fronted rock and songcraft from TIC, with support from soulful electronica artist Machines.

Ulrich Schnauss

Categories, Pop and rock

'Retro-futurist' nu-gazer Schnauss packs an emotional punch with his euphoric soundscapes. It's all made on on an Apple laptop, too, making him the world's foremost 'MacGaze' artist.