Teen meme-pop star Carly Rae Jepsen hasn’t released a record as totally irresistible as 2012’s bestselling single, Call Me Maybe, since then. But then again, very few people have. Relive that chart high-water mark, as well as tracks from her actually really pretty great recent album Emotion, at Islington Assembly Hall, N1, 7 Dec …
World-folk band Beirut, led by multi-instrumentalist Zach Condon, is playing a pair of dates in the new year (12 & 13 Feb, tour starts Roundhouse, NW1), while propulsive Texan post-rock band Explosions In The Sky will be playing a set of big dates next Spring (22 Mar-25 Apr, tour starts Albert Hall, Manchester). Both have followed up great 00s albums with a string of solid-to-amazing records this decade, and have graduated from fascinating outsiders to rightfully take their place as big guns of grown-up music. Booking very much advised …
Final pick this week is Wet: a trio of hip Brooklynites who began playing an artful impression of radio R&B, and ended making passable radio R&B. Work out if it was worth it when they play the Deaf Institute in Manchester (22 Mar).
