Dirty Projectors @ ABC, 29 Mar

David Byrne-endorsed Dirty Projectors encompass many of the eclectic influences into their music that Jeff Buckley did. Elements of jazz and avant-garde are distorted by the aesthetic of Beefheart and Pere Ubu, the operatic vocals strangled and cracking, sounding - as Buckley did - at once familiar and yet entirely new. Imagine Guillemots under instruction from Glenn Branca, trying their damnedest to play Kid A minus half of Radiohead's synthesis. With two new albums promised early this year after signing a deal with Domino, here's a chance to catch them live at their energetic - and sometimes downright baffling - best.[Stephen Toman]