Mark Lanegan Band | Mon 19 Jun | O2 Institute 2 | £22
It’s somehow comforting to know that Mark Lanegan still exists, haunting the fringes of American alternative rock, with the best stormy baritone voice you’ve heard since Jonny Cash. That voice has been everywhere these days, ripping its way through countless collaborations and spin-off bands, from Moby to the XX by way of Warpaint. Lanegan’s new album ‘Gargoyle’ doesn’t miss a step either: come to see the spirit of Americana past doing exactly what it does best. seetickets.com

Whitney | Wed 21 Jun | Mama Roux’s | £14.85
Chicago indie-pop band Whitney have a cacophony of folk and soul bands spliced together somewhere in their DNA, along with the psych ruminations of Unknown Mortal Orchestra and The Band; Bon Iver’s broken fractal-pop is a clear influence too, in both its sheer earnestness and its mind-boggling anxiety. Last year’s debut album ‘Light Upon the Lake’ hit all the right notes, and you’d be a fool not to keep your eyes on them. seetickets.com

The Maccabees | Thu 22 Jun | O2 Institute | £30
If you never saw the indie-rock tent-fillers Maccabees, this is your last chance: a ‘farewell’ tour following their decision to call it a day. Expect a suitably retrospective set from the band’s 7-year run, from their post-punk origins in the mid-2000s indie boom, to last year’s stormy, claustrophic ‘Marks to Prove It’. seetickets.com

Yolanda Brown | Fri 23 Jun | MAC Birmingham | £17.50
Saxophonist extraordinaire and bonafide national treasure YolanDa Brown has toured and collaborated relentlessly since breaking out in 2008: blending jazz, soul and reggae seamlessly, widening minds, inspiring young would-be musicians and thumbing her nose at any jazz elitists who might stand in her way. She plays the MAC in support of her new album ‘Love Politics War’. macbirmingham.co.uk

Darlingside | Sun 25 Jun | Hare & Hounds | £15
Indie-folk band Darlingside found their feet with last year’s ‘Birds Say’, a set of lush baroque folk-pop songs. Although Mumford et. al have done their best to degrade any broadly-country music that aspires to poppy immediacy, Darlingside manage to rise above all that, instead hitting the same sweet spot between old and new that Fleet Foxes or Nickel Creek do so well. skiddle.com