Pick of the Week

Beck

Splice hip hop technique to indie-grunge production values, sauce the result with a studied disregard for respectful behaviour, and you have , north America's most fashionably talented wastrel.

Tue 7pm, Brixton Academy, London (0171-924 9999)

Shed Seven

Ex-punky indie-melodicists making it work for themselves in the post- Britpop world.

Tue, Newport Centre; Thur, Exeter University; Fri, Wolverhampton Civic Hall

WOMAD: Global Spirit

Thomas Mapfumo, Sabri Bros, Kim Suk Chul, Salif Keita, Isonga - Ballet of Rwanda etc.

Tonight-Sun, Barbican Centre London (0171-638 8891)