Youngblood Brass Band | Tue 11 Sep | Hare & Hounds | £16.50 
The band formerly known as the One Lard Biskit Brass Band bring their riotous brand of brassed up funk and jazz grooves to the Hare with a guarantee of much grooving, good times and a swaying dance floor. New Orleans with a razor sharp punk edge pulled tight with a hip hop garotte, new EP Covers 1 sees their unique spin on some classic pop tunes including a glorious version of Rihanna’s Umbrella. www.skiddle.com

Ghum | Tue 11 Sep | Sunflower Lounge | £6.60
Ghum recall those few post punk years when Goth didn’t mean limp piss poor diluted metal and bands like Bauhaus, The Cure and Siouxsie weaved dark moods through lilting tribal sounds. New single I’m the Storm has an almost Joy Division feel about it, scattergun percussion, relentless bass and a wickedly hypnotic guitar echo, Ghum have stamped a twenty first century vision on their dark pop symphonies and its a heady mix. www.seetickets.com

The Devil Makes Three | Thu 13 Sep | Hare & Hounds | £19.80
The New England trio that formed in Santa Cruz California in 2002 bring a righteous whisky swilling energy to their sweetly painful brand of Americana. Incorporating bluegrass, blues and country there’s a deliciously punk rock snottiness about their attitude. This years sixth studio album Chains are Broken sees the band’s sound mellow (slightly) but with production duties taken by punk rock knob twiddler Ted Hutt, the Devil’s edginess remains intact. www.seetickets.com

Camel | Fri 14 Sep | Town Hall | £41
The prog rock legends Camel are approaching half a century of producing their epic brand of tightly wound and dreamy jazzy guitar soundscapes. Led by founding member and multi instrumentalist Andrew Latimer the band will be performing their classic 1976 album Moon Madness in full. Prepare to get spaced out as the album came number 23 in Mojo magazine’s list of the top 40 Cosmic Rock Albums. www.thsh.co.uk

Harry Jordan | Fri 14 Sep | Actress & Bishop | £6.60
Harry Jordan may proclaim she was born without a soul in the pounding rock and roll sludge of new single Holy Water but she was certainly born with a righteous southern drawl and a knack for producing relentlessly dark rock and roll, imagine the Gun Club with Birmingham’s own Harry on vocals. She is performing here as part of the Pivotal Music Conference Showcase alongside a breathtaking array of local talent including Nonsuch, Natalie Holmes, Speak, Brother and Hunger Moon. www.seetickets.com

Yr VERY Welcome | Sat 15 Sep | Wagon & Horses | £9
Coming with an absolute cast iron stamp of quality, authenticity and unlimited brashness is Yr Welcome’s third all dayer of the year at the Wagon and Horses. An incredible 15 bands (yes we can’t believe it either) powering through Saturday afternoon until midnight and shaking the very foundations of Digbeth. The bill is headed by Birmingham’s thrash happy Youth Man and includes the Beefheartian joys of The Courtesy Group, the riotous post punk racket of Ghost of Dead Airplanes and the jet powered indie pop of The Dollcanoes. Do the math, it’s sixty pence per band, and get a ticket. ww2.theticketsellers.co.uk

Wolfgang Flur | Sat 15 Sep | Castle & Falcon | £18.15
Ex Kraftwerk knob twiddler Wolfgang Flur returns to Birmingham, a member of the band throughout all their most productive ‘Autobahn’ years; though they are no longer on speaking terms, indeed Kraftwerk gagged his ‘I was a Robot’ autobiography. Wolfgang continues to produce music and collaborate with a host of top names. www.seetickets.com

Wooden Shjips | Sun 16 Sep | O2 Institute | £17
Erik Johnson returns to the city, after melting the roof at the Hare & Hounds with space rock offshoot Moon Duo in January, with the minimalist space drone of Wooden Shjips. The psychedelic warlords released their fifth studio album V earlier this year, whilst it’s a gentler ride than some of their earlier stuff its still an uplifting dayglo sonic swirl of musical invention, guile and far out grooves, like settling into the greatest dream you ever had, emotionally transportive and wilfully transcendent.  academymusicgroup.com

Slug | Mon 17 Sep | Hare & Hounds | £8.80
One time member of the Mercury Prize nominated Field Music’s touring band Ian Black has found solo success with the sonically eclectic Slug. A genius collective of just one member, that gives joyous reign to Black’s irreverent musical excesses that veer from eighties movie soundtrack, through experimentally subversive pop such as The Residents, with a faint whiff of The Cardiacs jarring melodies. It’s studious, unexpected and enjoins wicked pleasure from its wilful wrong footing of the listener. New album Higgledy Piggledy, Slug’s second, is as beautifully disjointed as it sounds. www.skiddle.com