Ezra Furman: Sex Education review – Warm indie with killer lines

A great introduction to a seriously under-rated musician’s back catalogue

Ezra Furman: Twelve Nudes review – baring his soul with raw punk power

His new record only goes up to 11 songs, but they’re loud and proud and defiant

The week’s best rock and pop gigs

Icebreaker at the NCH; Lisa O’Neill and Junior Brother in Galway; Eve Belle at Whelan’s

Ezra Furman: Transangelic Exodus review – tales of a gender-non-conforming star

Electric Picnic stage times: Electric Arena, Cosby, Little Big, Theatre of Food and more

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

Electric Picnic: main stage times plus Rankin's wood, Other Voices and Body & Soul

Here’s the first stage times for the Main, Rankin’s Wood, Other Voices and Body and Soul stages. We'll have more for you tomorrow

Lana Del Rey announced for Electric Picnic

Other acts include LCD Soundsystem, New Order and The Chemical Brothers

Ezra Furman: ‘I don’t trust popularity. I’m going for greatness’

Furman’s favourite thing, it seems, is to confound expectations – but look behind the theatricality and the Chicago singer has a musical masterplan at work