Alternative country-rock
TOLIESEL
O2 Academy Oxford
Tonight (Thursday)
Tickets £7.05 inc fee from ticketweb.co.uk

One of Oxford’s best-loved bands play their biggest show to date, as they launch rocking new tune Bones (check out their Soundcloud page). It precedes the release of their new EP, Wilderness Blues, out on March 16. Support is from Lordo’s Lads, Big Tropics, and Henn-esy J.

Rock
THE NME TOUR
O2 Academy Oxford
Saturday
Tickets £17.55 inc fee from ticketweb.co.uk

Four bands tipped for very big things. Palma Violets, Fat White Family, Slaves and The Wytches, the latter replacing The Amazing Snakeheads, who have dropped out. Expect great — and very loud — things.

Pop
ROOM 94
O2 Academy Oxford
Saturday
Tickets £11.25 from ticketweb.co.uk

Feisty young things Room 94 hit the road with a bag of tunes from their Top 40 debut album No Strings Attached.

Folk
RUSTY SHACKLE
Jericho Tavern, Oxford
Tomorrow (Friday)
Tickets: seetickets.com

Welsh indie-folk act Rusty Shackle follow up previous glories at Glastonbury, Beacon, Towersey and Corn-bury fest-ivals, with a set on Walton Street. Support comes from Hepzibah and Emma McGann.

Blues-rock
VIENNA DITTO
O2 Academy Oxford
Tomorrow (Friday)
Tickets £8.05 inc fee from ticketweb.co.uk

Reading’s self-styled voodoo sci-fi blues monsters Vienna Ditto bring their twisted psychedelic rock sound to Cowley Road to launch their single Hammer and a Nail. They are joined by Decovo, The Sea The Sea, The Aureate Act, Kid Kin and Alan Jaggs.

Folk-pop
THE AUGUST LIST
Wild Honey, Magdalen Street, Oxford
Saturday
Tickets £6 on the door

Husband and wife country-folk duo The August List (aka Thame couple Kerraleigh and Martin Child) play Tamara Parsons-Baker’s All Tamara’s Parties night, joined by performance poet George Chopping and London folk-blues singer Nia.