Folk
LiveFriday: Oxford Folk
Ashmolean Museum
Tomorrow, 7-10.30pm
Free
The good people at Oxford Folk Weekend take over the hallowed chambers of the Ashmolean Museum tomorrow for the last of this year’s LiveFriday events. Filling the galleries with the sounds of singing, plucking, scraping, blowing, drumming, will be Swindlestock, Olly Wills from The Epstein, Oxford’s wonderfully intense, dark and quirky Tamara Parsons-Baker, Ragdoll, The Black Feathers, James Bell, Boldwood, Jackie Oates, Steph West and many more. Just follow the sound of bells. See Soundbites for details.

Irregular Folk
Little Arrow, Rachael Dadd and Emma Gatrill
The Cellar, Oxford
Tomorrow, 7.30pm
Tickets £6 from wegottickets.com or Truck Store in Cowley Road
The fabulous Irregular Folk night, which has enlivened so many evenings at The Cellar, and elsewhere, tomorrow celebrates its first birthday — and it is marking the occasion by putting iona triple-headline set of some mighty fine talent in the shape of Welsh band Little Arrow, and sublime singer-songwriters Rachael Dadd and Emma Gatrill.

Indie-rock
alt-J DJ set
Propaganda, O2 Academy Oxford
Saturday
Tickets £5 from ticketweb.co.uk
Gus Unger-Hamilton from last year’s Mercury Prize-winning art-rock band alt-J, takes to the decks for a stint at Oxford’s biggest indie night. Let’s hope the Tessellate star remembers to drop in a couple of his own tunes from blockbusting album An Awesome Wave, while he’s at it.

Ska
Hope & Glory
East Oxford Conservative Club, James Street
Tomorrow
John Louca’s dapper tribute band attempt to create the “heavy, heavy monster sound” of Madness and fellow ska and 2-Tone bands such as Bad Manners, the Specials and the Beat. Expect frantic dancing, big smiles and lots of hats.

Alternative
Audioscope
Jericho Tavern
Saturday, noon-midnight
Tickets £14 from wegottickets.com
Twelve great alternative, electronic, pop and avant-garde bands play in 12 hours. See Soundbites for details.

Indie-pop
Ms Mr
O2 Academy Oxford
Monday
Tickets £11 from ticketweb.co.uk
New York indie-pop duo hit our shores to promote single Fantasy. Expect powerful cinematic electronic pop and striking visuals from smoky-voiced Lizzy Plapinger and her other half, Max Hershenow.