Buy Tickets Now: Deerhunter @ Stereo, Glasgow, *20 May

Bradford Cox, Deerhunter’s undisputed creative epicentre, had a mixed 2008. The unscrupulous leaking of Microcastle, its bonus disc Weird Era Cont., and the demos for surprise Atlas Sound release Logos prompted understandable blog-rant anger back in August. But by December things were somewhat less grim, with all and sundry queuing up to pay tribute to his alternative pop genius (a top ten placing in our own albums of the year list amongst Microcastle’s accolades). 2009 should continue the buoyancy with a return to Glasgow’s Stereo, and then fingers crossed he’ll forgive, forget, and let the finished version of Logos see the light of day. [Chris Buckle]