A night of drum’n’bass from the GlobalFunk team, with Brazil’s DJ Marky and Stamina MC headlining, plus support from Dubai DJs Mach4, Somalie, Charl Chaka and MC Olly Wood

Larger-than-life breakdance and DJ trio The Cuban Brothers play, with support from local talent Conan Liquid and Charl Chaka

DJ Noise celebrates five years of his Holy Noise club night with an international headbangers’ ball, with sets from Syria’s Melechesh, the Maldives’ Nothnegal and Bahrain’s Smouldering in Forgotten

Expect some seriously heavy headliners at this local showcase

Soft rock band Night Shift playing all your favorites

UK-based DJ Cosmic joins the Dust team for a night of nu-disco grooves

Dubai-based progressive rock band Absolace will play their last gig before the summer, supported by Anuryzm, the heavy-hitting group that gained much attention when they opened for Avenged Sevenfold in Abu Dhabi

The GlobalFunk brand hosts a second night of drum’n’bass madness at The Music Room

‘Indian’s first live hip-hop band’ make their UAE debut

This playfully named tribute act have been playing all the Arctic’s hits and misses to audiences of up to 50,000 across Europe since 2006

Local headbangers including Primo and Edge of Reason play at this showcase

The UAE metallers stop off on their international tour

Berlin-based, Welsh-born Daneeka – nominated as DJ Mag’s best breakthrough DJ in 2010

The Hot2Deff team take on No 1 Events with a new urban night

Classic-sounding UAE rockers Riff Raff launch their debut album, By the Seat of our Pants, with a live show for Metal Asylum

10 of Dubai's best live bands competing for one night only

Named ‘band of the decade’ by India’s Rock Street Journal

DJs Shero and Stylez have moved this popular night to a new home

Expect hip-hop, boogie, nu-disco and fresh funk from the DUST team

Kenyan rapper DNA (which stands for ‘Dreams ’n’ Ambitions’, apparently) is best known for 2006 hit ‘Banjuka’

Velvet Underground residents DJs Manoj and Shadow play desi hits and more

While it’s far from topping our list of the city’s hottest nightspots, we’d be lying if we said we’d never had a good night out at Rock Bottom

Local progressive metallers EYE (an acronym for Empty Yard Experiment) play their final Dubai gig before decamping to play in Holland

Jordan’s DJ Sotusura returns to Dubai, a year after playing Dust’s launch party at Trilogy

Music fans in the region are in for a treat this season as one of the best live acts in the world, The Black Lips out of Atlanta, USA and one of the Middle East’s best live acts Lazzy Lung from Beirut, Lebanon, join forces for a tour of the region