AUDIOSCOPE is an organisation committed to raising money through music for the national homelessness charity Shelter. Since 2001, AUDIOSCOPE has raised over £25,000 for Shelter, presenting the best in local, national and international independent music in the process. This year’s AUDIOSCOPE festival runs from midday until midnight and features:

• CALIFONE: Ever-changing musical cinema from one of America’s most inventive bands, touring their stunning new album Stitches. Spaghetti westerns and dusty folk clash with drum machines, sparse electronics to create a music like no other.
• ESBEN AND THE WITCH: Taking inspiration from nature and literature, art and science, as well as the odd PJ Harvey and Scott Walker record, Esben and the Witch have been ploughing a unique furrow of what they call ‘nightmare pop’ since 2008, and now share a label – and no small musical common ground – with the likes of Sonic Youth and Cat Power.
• PET MOON: Pet Moon take everything Andrew Mears learned as a sometime member of Foals and Youthmovies and distil it into a mutated blend of R&B with twists of skittering electronics ,twisting guitar lines and anthemic indie pop.
• EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS: Two drummers, growling Moog basslines, pulsing electronics and the transcendent Neu! beat – Eat Lights Become Lights are krautrock heaven updated for 2013.
• GRUMBLING FUR: Alexander Tucker has graced the Audioscope stage twice before, and he’s back with new project Grumbling Fur on Thrill Jockey with Guapo/Ulver man Daniel O’Sullivan. Psychedelia driven by pulsing electronics, shamanic chants and some beautifully innovative pop songs.
• FONDA 500: You might know Fonda 500 from their stunning Truck Festival shows. If you don’t, imagine a joyous live experience, with Led Zep, SFA, the Beastie Boys and Cornelius each writing a quarter of their songs.
• PYE CORNER AUDIO: Part of the legendary Ghost Box Records label, Pye Corner Audio explores a parallel universe in which Boards of Canada were allowed to soundtrack every eighties children’s TV series. That’s a universe we want to live in.
• THOUGHT FORMS: One of the stars of the final All Tomorrow’s Parties festival and labelmates of Beak>, the two sides of Thoughts Forms sound like Sonic Youth playing doom, with an awesome array of sounds at their disposal.
• SALVATION BILL: Hometown musical icon Ollie Thomas (ute, Grinding Young) serves up dusky, alcohol-soaked tributes to a mysterious Piedmont blues musician nicknamed ‘Salvation Bill’ from the American deep south.
• ADAM GNADE: Californian Adam Gnade documents a personal history of America through his ‘talking songs’, which he’s recorded with members of Gang of Four, Modest Mouse, Grandaddy and Oxford’s own Youthmovies, Jonquil and Chad Valley.
• TOMAGA: Bat For Lashes/Shit and Shine drummer and Oscillation bassist come together in a union of improvised drum, synth and processed guitar chaotic beauty.
• LISTING SHIPS: Oxford-based, nautically-inspired instrumental post-krautrock band. Recording in lifeboat stations and on uninhabited islands, their songs are inspired by tales of the sea as much as by Can, Tortoise or Fugazi.

More information at audioscope.co.uk. Tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/event/240651