Roundhouse

The Flaming Lips

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Wayne Coyne's long-running psychedelic pop nutjobs make a welcome return with a new album for 2013, 'The Terror.' Expect the Lips' usual amount of unbridled joie de vivre and onstage antics, and bring someone to hug for 'Do You Realize?' (the official...

Tribes

Categories, Pop and rock

The cocksure Camden indie-rockers Tribes headline to celebrate the release of their new album 'Wish to Scream' (May 20), recorded at the legendary Sound City studio in Los Angeles. They're gaining a reputation for selling out every show, so you'll want...

Voices Now

Things to do

Get the lozenges out and the larynx in training if you fancy a vocal workout, for this four-day programme of events showcasing some of the UK's best choirs offers men and boys the chance to participate in a day of workshops on Saturday June 22. Before...

Cat Power

Singer-songwriter

• Critics' choice

Chan Marshall is Cat Power, who made her name as a cripplingly shy performer of bone-scrapingly raw and mostly acoustic songs. She's since grown in both stature and confidence, to the point where she's appeared in Gap ads and appeared on fashion show...

Nitin Sawhney

Categories, Jazz and experimental

Polymath jazz pianist, flamenco guitarist, tabla player, soundtrack writer and orchestral composer Sawhney returns.

Dead Can Dance

Categories, Pop and rock

Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's avant garde goth veterans – based in London but tracing their origins back to Australia – return to play from their extensive 29-year 4AD back catalogue.

Blondie

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

NY punk icon Deborah Harry (swoon!) – she of the distinctive, glass-like voice – and her ageing lads deliver their perfect pop classics – copied still by bands from Hoxton to Hull. For fans of Jeremy Clarkson's 'Top Gear' and headband-wearing hipsters...

Modest Mouse

Categories, Music

The return of Issaquah, WA's finest college-rock combo has been a long time coming. Their last London gig was three years ago, and they haven't released an album since 2007's 'We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank'. Nowadays they no longer feature Johnny...

Amanda Palmer And The Grand Theft Orchestra

Categories, Pop and rock

Part vaudeville punk, part neo-Weimar cabaret singer, and formerly half of Dresden Dolls, Amanda Palmer is back with her new band The Grand Theft Orchestra. She's used to ruffling feathers with her divisively bold personality and online exploits: last...

Atoms For Peace

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and producer Nigel Godrich bring their whole band on tour following the release of their album 'Amok'. AFP – also featuring Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass and an impressive live rhythm section – make the same impressively...

David Byrne/St Vincent

Alternative rock

• Critics' choice

Finally! After touring their funky, brass-driven collaborative album 'Love This Giant' around the world since its release in September 2012, this super-duo is pitching up for a London show. Byrne is the former frontman of Talking Heads and an all-time...

IMAGINED OCCASIONS 2 Primrose Hill/Roundhouse

Chamber, Electronica, Orchestral music

• Critics' choice

London Contemporary Orchestra under Hugh Brunt, with Kathinka Pasveer (sound projection) and Igor Kavulek (sound projection). The second part of London Contemporary Orchestra's Claude Vivier-inspired series, which begins on Primrose Hill, the audience...

Katie Melua

Categories, Pop and rock

This warbly voiced, multi-million-selling chanteuse trained at the Brit School in Croydon and spent her teenage years in Belfast, but was born in Soviet Georgia –her birth name is Ketevan. Tonight she plays from her latest, orchestral studio album 'Secret...

-M-

Categories, Pop and rock

Matthieu Cheddid performs incredibly catchy and fun French glam rock under his un-Googleable moniker -M-. The extroverted frontman has won numerous French music awards and worked with the likes of Damon Albarn, Amadou & Mariam and Sean Lennon, so it's...

Deep Purple

Categories, Pop and rock

Minus legendary geetar misanthrope Ritchie Blackmore, the '70s rock dinosaurs still boast a line-up including Messrs Gillan, Paice and Glover. They will no doubt treat the Jeremy Clarkson massive to such classics as 'Highway Star', 'Fireball' and their...

Deaf Havana

Categories, Pop and rock

Screamo from Norfolk. Who knew there was such a thing?

The Cult

New wave and post-punk, Hard rock

The Bradford goth-rockers may have mercifully dropped the leather trousers and bandanas, but otherwise it'll be guitar-shredding and vocal acrobatics as usual when Ian Astbury and co play from their latest album 'Choice of Weapon', plus hits including...

Paradise Lost

Categories, Metal

Formed in Halifax but much bigger in Europe than their homeland, these scary-looking dudes make angsty metal that has flirted with goth rock, death and doom stylings and even industrial music. They'll be showcasing tracks tonight from their latest album...

Peter Frampton

Categories, Pop and rock

Soft-rocking, Talkbox-loving Bromley boy Frampton hasn't seen anything like the success of 'Frampton Comes Alive!' – which has sold more than eight million copies in the US – since the '70s. But he's still touring, and making new music – 2010's 'Thank...

Gary Numan

Categories, Pop and rock

• Critics' choice

The Numanoid has long since been recognised as a pioneer of electronica, a godfather of techno – and the spiritual progenitor of Marilyn Manson. His latest 'Machine Music' tour plundered his 35-year discography, plus cuts from his latest 'Dead Son Rising'...

Black Veil Brides

Categories, Pop and rock

• Free

Costume-wearing hard rockers BVB look like Kiss's nephews but sound like a middling Metallica tribute act.