Torres – AKA 24-year-old Mackenzie Scott – creates music that turns influences from her intensely religious Georgia upbringing into surging, destabilised indie rock. The singer-songwriter plays Rough Trade East (E1, Thu), before returning the UK in September where she’ll join Sufjan Stevens and Tame Impala at Dorset’s End Of The Road festival (4-6 Sep, Larmer Tree Gardens) …
Also straight out of Georgia, BBC Sound Of 2015 shortlistee and maker of spaced out, gospel-like pop Raury has announced a London show (Village Underground, EC2, 13 Jul) …
Catfish And The Bottlemen, the latest incarnation of inoffensiveness to take the Radio 1 playlist by storm, are an outfit that manage to combine near-ubiquity with some of the most forgettable tunes to ever rack up a couple of million YouTube views. After playing a mammoth festival run, the band tour the UK (28 Oct-12 Nov, tour starts Great Hall, University of Exeter) …
Having just completed a small-ish UK tour, The Prodigy are taking new album The Day Is My Enemy to the arenas. Support is supplied by Public Enemy (24 Nov-4 Dec, tour starts Capital FM Arena, Nottingham).
