Anti-Flag | Tue 30 Oct | Asylum | £18.15
Hardcore political punk rock activism, just like in the old days, Anti-Flag have been raging against injustice and making highly charged noise for three decades, as potent and meaningful as it was on debut album Die For Your Government. www.eventbrite.co.uk

Insecure Men | Wed 31 Oct | Mama Roux’s | £12.10
Fat White Family’s loss is Insecure Men’s gain as Saul Ademczewski and Ben Romans-Hopcraft collide to reap a downbeat whirlwind of grim cultural tropes and impecunious hope in a mess of vainglorious punk rock pop, picture a 21st century reimagining of lo-fi seventies art rockers Television Personalities. www.skiddle.com

Mutual Benefit | Thu 1 Nov | Hare & Hounds | £12.10
Jordan Lee’s ragtag band of loosely assembled lo-fi kickers bring their own peculiar brand of exquisitely shambolic mayhem to the Hare and Hounds, brash Texan charm in Kings Heath, what’s not to love. www.skiddle.com

Cud | Fri 2 Nov | Castle & Falcon | £14
The Leeds indie legends and John Peel favourites Cud revisit their impressive back catalogue hopefully including ‘Only (A Prawn in Whitby)’, unpop eighties weirdos Yeah Yeah Noh provide tongue in cheek support.  www.skiddle.com

Tiny Magnetic Pets | Sat 3 Nov | The Flapper | £7
Beep beep, Irish trio Tiny Magnetic Pets bring their sharply observed and wryly eccentric electro pop energy to town in support of new single Radio On which features Kraftwerk legend Wolfgang Flür. Rodney Cromwell and John Biddulph provide support. www.skiddle.com

Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam | Sat 3 Nov | Sunflower Lounge | £7
Join local noise-pop saboteurs Sunshine Frisbee Laserbeam for the launch party for hotly anticipated new album Blackout Cowboy, militant chain-gang slogans, coagulating bursts of guitar, and skull-hammering drums through to monolithic doom-mongering drones, SFL will rock your soul. It gets better, gatecrashing the party are Hoopla Blue and Sweet Deals on Surgery. www.seetickets.com

Here Lies Man | Sun 4 Nov | Hare & Hounds | £11
Heavy metal clatters with afrobeat in Marcos Garcia’s hybrid musical experiment Here Lies Man, pounding percussion and Sab level riffs is as unsettling as it is seductive. Move those bodies and bang those heads. www.skiddle.com

Johnny Marr | Mon 5 Nov | O2 Institute | Sold Out
Cultural icon and the decidedly sensible half of the Morrissey Marr songwriting partnership brings his Call the Comet tour to town. The Smiths maybe a nostalgic memory and his royal highness Moz may sully those memories relentlessly with carefree abandon, but Marr continues to stay relevant and produce tunes of the highest order. www.ticketmaster.co.uk