Midway through a cold November, it’s an embarrassment of riches in the Second City’s music scene this week.

Danny Brown | Wed 16 Nov | Rainbow Warehouse | £18.15
Detroit’s weirdest brings his apocalyptic and critically-acclaimed new album Atrocity Exhibition to the Rainbow. It’s the result of locking Danny Brown’s music in a cage and taunting it with scraps of Joy Division and Antipop Consortium, until it’s artfully damaged and savagely hungry. It’ll be one of this year’s most divisive releases; get the full drunken, wild, strange experience this Wednesday. See our full preview: here

Three Trapped Tigers | Thu 17 Nov | The Flapper | £11
Indulge in some creative destruction with the superhuman cavemen of electronic rock. Three Trapped Tigers are equally in their element when sculpting futuristic sci-fi soundscapes, or bludgeoning them to pieces with stone age riffs. With the release of their sophomore LP Silent Earthling, the preternatural three-piece have cemented their status as a uniquely unhinged phenomenon. See our full preview here

Diamond D vs Large Professor | Fri 18 Nov | Spotlight | £5
Sure to be one of the highlights of this year’s BASS Festival: the underground vanguard of US boom-bap, Diamond D and Large Professor, share a DJ set and a live performance at the Hare and Hounds. Both have their fingerprints all over hip-hop history: both are as hugely influential as they are respectful of the scenes that birthed them. A steal at £5 for an expertly curated trip through past and future hip-hop. See our picks of the BASS Festival here.

Laura Mvula | Sat 19 Nov | O2 Institute | £22
Birmingham’s own returns to her hometown following the superb, Mercury-nominated album, The Dreaming Room. Mvula has consolidated and deepened her sound since her breakout Sing to the Moon, showing no sign of compromise; her dense, ethereal compositions and wandering melodies never take the easy route. Catch her at the O2 Institute as she goes from strength to strength. www.ticketweb.co.uk

Honeyblood | Sat 19 Nov | Mama Roux’s | £11
If you prefer something more lo-fi and tautly focused on your Saturday, Scottish duo Honeyblood bring their explosive pop-grunge cocktail to Mama Roux’s. With a scrappy garage-rock aesthetic and an unstoppable ear for melody, it’s easy to make comparisons – we’d say Sleater-Kinney meets Metric – but Honeyblood are strong enough to woo you in their own right. Come get drunk on killer choruses and the Glaswegian defiance of Babes Never Die. www.seetickets.com

Robert Glasper Experiment | Sun 20 Nov | Town Hall | £20.50
Another gem from BASS Festival: legendary pianist Robert Glasper brings his Experiment on the road, the team behind the neo-soul revival Black Radio and this year’s jazz-trap fusion ArtScience. That’s not his only release in 2016; with a stack of jazz standards in his belt, Glasper also assembled an astonishing cast of musicians for his tightly curated soundtrack to Miles Ahead, Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic. But the best reason to get down to this show? There’s no knowing what he’s going to play. See our full preview here.