Gomez | Tue 28 Aug | O2 Institute | £31.75
Seminal indie art rock slackers Gomez shuffle into Digbeth to perform their seminal Mercury Prize winning debut album Bring It On in full. A bluesey antidote to the tiring laddishness of their counterparts Gomez possess a canny Southport charm and shaggy demeanour that feeds a twinkle in the eye lyrical sharpness. ‘We like lovin yeah’. www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Matt Hollywood and the Bad Feelings | Wed 29 Aug | Sunflower Lounge | £13.20
New York born Matt Hollywood possesses the kind of rock and roll CV most musicians can only dream of, a founding member of the psychedelic troubadours The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and surviving for several years, as well as stints with The Out Crowd and The Rebel Drones. With the Bad Feelings he brings a dirty swamp blues aesthetic that recalls The Gun Club at their best, this years Self Titled album is nine tracks of leftfield rock and roll bluster.  www.seetickets.com

Faux Chisels | Thu 30 Aug | Hare & Hounds | Free
Local loudmouths Faux Chisels make a gloriously funky post punk DIY racket chock full of scatter-gun rhythm, messy guitar licks and confrontational lyrics. New album At The B.C.R.C surfaced in July on wonderfully garish orange vinyl and to celebrate Die Das Der have laid on a free launch party at the Hare & Hounds. Support comes from Rat the Magnificent, Wax Futures and Richard Burke. www.skiddle.com

Youssou Ndour | Thu 30 Aug | Symphony Hall | £37.50
A colossus of world music, Youssou Ndour has been performing over four decades, since starting his career with the Star Band of Dakar when he was just twelve years old. The Senegalese musician is possessed of a beautifully unique voice that just seems to improve with age and will be perfectly served by the delicious acoustics of the Symphony Hall. Youssou will be performing a mostly acoustic set with his band Le Super Étoile de Dakar with support from Senegalese Kora player Seckou Keita. www.thsh.co.uk

Screaming Females | Sun 2 Sep | Hare & Hounds | £11
New Jersey’s Screaming Females seem to have spent the last thirteen years working tirelessly towards their stunning and ambitious new album All At Once, a double album that has taken the spiralling punk rock energy of their six previous albums and honed it into a thing of experimental sonic beauty. Artist Marissa Paternoster is a beguiling and potently creative leader of a band at the peak of their power, local fuzz earthquake Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam lend groovy support. www.skiddle.com

Sunday Xpress | Sun 2 Sep | Centrala | £5.50
The fabulously eclectic culture fest Sunday Xpress has really upped the ante this weekend with a razor sharp lineup of music, poetry and comedy. Main billing goes to the Beefheartian joys of The Courtesy Group, who are launching their  second album 2nd City Liquor, led by confrontational performance poet Al Hutchins, the band recall similarly influenced agit rock piledrivers The Nightingales. Surreal comedian Simon Munnery will be stretching your minds to breaking point with his peculiar and singularly Munneryesque brand of humour alongside power duo Squalour Fan and poet Bobby Parker. That’s a lot of artistic bang for a measly five gold coins, you know what to do.  www.wegottickets.com

Iceage | Mon 3 Sep | Hare & Hounds | £14.30
Roaring punk rock energy that was forged in Copenhagen in 2008 and has been mercilessly hammering an exhaustingly relentless rock and roll stake into our brains ever since. Seductive, sweaty, cool and simmering with a blinding fuck you intoxication other band scan only dream of. This years Beyondless album sees Iceage surpass everything they’ve ever done before in a whirlwind of chaos that recalls a wealth of possible influences from the languid cabaret schmoozing of The Growlers, through Swans, Velvet Underground and The Stooges. It feels dangerous, as Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s poetically dark lyricism creeps through songs such as the astonishing Catch it. We already know this is going to be one of the best gigs of the year, see you there.  www.skiddle.com