Highlights - Alvvays, Pixel Fix and more

The Cellar celebrates Independent Venue Week with a varied night of music curated by Oxford folk-pop act Stornoway.

Glitchy electronic act Pixel Fix top the bill, with support from Tremor Heart, Esther Joy Lane and Stornoway frontman Brian Briggs. Two bandmates Oli Steadman and Jon Ouin weigh in with DJ sets.

Indie-pop
ALVVAYS
O2 Academy Oxford
Tomorrow
Tickets from ticketweb.co.uk

Light breezy indie-pop peels back to reveal dark lyrics about such profundities as death, despair and heartache. The complex but irresistible Canadian quartet are fronted by singer Molly Rankin, whose honey-coated melodies bristle with hooks.

Gothic Americana
AN EVENING WITH HUCK 
Modern Art Oxford
Tomorrow
Tickets £5 from modernartoxford.org.uk

We love poetic singer-songwriter Humphrey ‘Huck’ Astley for his provocative and expansive gay-romance folk operetta Alexander the Great. Tomorrow the polymath curates an evening of music, poetry and film, as part of PinDrop promotions’ residency, which celebrates its William Morris/Andy Warhol exhibition Love Is Enough. Music comes from Huck’s band The Handsome Fee. There will also be sets by Billy T’Rivers and the WIld West retirement Home and a solo set by Huck himself. Poetry, some of it to music, comes from El Habib Louai and Henry Stead.

Poetic: 'Huck' Astley

Pop and rock
REINS
Pegasus, Oxford
Sunday
Tickets £3 advance, £4 on door

Enjoy a taste of the future sound of Oxfordshire, courtesy of Reins — a showcase of the county’s best young pop and rock talent. The line-up includes young artists from Oxfordshire Music Service, Readipop, The Oxford Academy, BG Records, the Young Women’s Music Project and Oxfordshire Youth Arts Partnership.

Indie-rock
LIU BEI
The Cellar, Oxford
Tuesday
Tickets £6 from wegottickets.com

Featuring Oxford’s highly-respected singer-songwriter Richard Walters, this London-based five-piece are destined to be everyone’s favourite new band. Liu Bei have mastered a blend of shimmering and transformative indie-rock.