Live Music Roundup - June

Edinburgh

German industrial pioneers, Faust, will descend on the Bongo Club on 9 June to wreak a very particular kind of musical menace. Having formed in 1971, they've been concocting eerie atmospheres and unsettling ambiences for a long, long time. "There is no group more mythical than Faust," – so said Julian Cope. Groundbreaking shit.

Tiny Dancers play Cabaret Voltaire on 12 June and will be doing their best to cement Sheffield as the centre of the musical universe once and for all. They've got the bouncy tunes, the curiously infectious vocals and the poppy melodies. Oh, and they're tight as hell when they play live. This should be fun.

The Skinny loves Neils Children, even if their flagrant lack of an apostrophe makes us want to give them a lesson in punch-you-face-on (punctuation). The icy, angular precision of their tunes is strangely addictive and not a little sexy. They're more interesting than people would have you believe, even if they do look like a low-rent version of the Horrors. Do they still play I Hate Models? We hope so. That was a fucking good tune.

We've recommended Isa & The Filthy Tongues before, and we're doing it again now. Okay? This time you have to go and see them – they're endearingly verbose, a bit strange and very watchable. We like the singer's accent. They make us happy – they might make you happy too.

Glasgow

Rodrigo y Gabriela used to play thrash metal. I guess they got fed up of replacing the batteries in their distortion pedals, because now they use acoustic guitars. But they still like metal. Confused? You shouldn't be, unless you're an idiot. Expect off-the-cuff creative risk-taking and a compete lack of annoying vocals – they play the Barrowlands on 4 June. Mosh.

Pull Tiger Tail make good pop music and write nice melodies. They're setting a lot of tongues a-wagging at the moment with their mix of hyper-direct bounciness and slightly off-kilter arrangements. From what we've heard they could do with owning a few more Motorhead albums, but the Skinny is willing to concede that a lot of people seem to enjoy this kind of thing. Barfly 12 June.

The dreamy CocoRosie will set our hearts racing when they set up camp at the Arches on 15 June. The sisters Casady just seem to get stranger and more unsettling, even as their sound becomes more accessible. Their music freaks us out a bit, but we can't stop listening. Their live shows are notoriously unorthodox, unpredictable affairs too. We saw them rock a crowd with their mum and some beatboxers on stage at Coachella the other month, so God knows what this will be like; interesting to say the least.

Deerhoof are pretty amazing; one of those bands that just seems to add up to so much more than the sum of their parts. Their riffs and grooves sound effortlessly great, and they're well worth catching live. A consummate live outfit, they will dazzle you, elevate you, and make you wish you were in a band. Yeah, just go and see them, basically. ABC 25 June.