The Old England Pub

Instrumental prog rock/jazz runaway-train act Z Machine bring their chunky jams to the Old E with loose, snakish saxophone coiling round acrobatic guitar scrawl; Inscape offer a grand tour through a disparate forest of modern rock styles and Cities conjure tranquil ambient post-rock vistas. Big FFO: Mahavishnu Orchestra, the midpoint between Of Montreal and Tool, Ex-Easter Island Head. Z Machine w/ Inscape & Cities at The Old England Pub.

A four-way showcase of shoegaze and pop-punk in states of glorious ruin! Thistle deliver lean, hooky songwriting wrapped in pedalboard scuzz; The Young Hearts offer emotionally charged, chorus-heavy bangers; Pushbike fuse the two genres in a scabrous spin on pop-punk; and Parkii’s “shoemo” embraces life on its shittiest terms with cathartic sincerity. A night of post punk, melodic tunes.

Arch psychonauts Velvet Echoes help birth Guzzlers’ second single out into the world: a grungy slice of tortured prog combined with Sickrose’s always-ace doom blues and Mantis’ Morricone-fried outlaw fuzz. Unmissably frazzled underground action FFO: The Black Angels, Thee Oh Sees, Sabbath, King Gizzard, Mars Volta, Tool. Psych/Doom/Stoner Rock

Standout supernatural freak folk from Brooklyn’s Anastasia Coope, who unsettles and soothes in equal measures. Her ethereal baroque-ambient sound channels the haunted girl group minimalism of Jessica Pratt in séance with Julianna Barwick’s experimental loops; she won’t be playing venues this size for long, so don’t sleep. Unmissable FFO: Julia Holter, Panda Bear, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Broadcast. Anastasia Coope + Support at The Old England

The Brackish carve chaos with an audacious precision, their sweltering live sets and boggling assemblage of stylistic strands rejecting all psych rock conventions. Fantastic Stranger channel raw sax fury, merging post-rock, trip-hop, and jazz into a blistering improv maelstrom. A mould-breaking double bill FFO: Can, Captain Beefheart, Ornette Colman, And So I Watch You From Afar. Let's get awkward!