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With a taste for tweed and a great line in self-deprecating banter, it’s hard to know how seriously to take Young Knives. Find out for yourself when the art-rock trio play XOYO on 6 April.

This week’s onsales include a rapper with some dubious rhymes and a last hurrah for some north London stalwarts.

A new festival with an indie-folk edge comes to Shepherd’s Bush.

The bumper crop of gigs on sale this Friday includes the enigmatic-sounding Anna Calvi. See which other tickets you should be buying this week.

This week’s onsales in a nutshell: one wardrobe malfunction, some South African rockers and an ex-Beatle.

It’s like any other festival but the risk of mud is minimal, it happens in proper gig venues and you can sleep in your own bed.

There’s one not-to-be-missed rock gig, and a bunch of other interesting concerts going onsale today. Read our round-up.

This week’s on-sales include an ageing showbiz legend, reunited indie-punkers – and a bespectacled ex-tea-shop-owning vegan.

With a country music institution, an annual charity shindig at the Albert Hall, a spot of folky pop and some noisy rock, there’s a gig on sale for everyone this morning.

Two drum kits, a bonkers front woman and indecipherable lyrics. The Go! Team are back.