These Are Powers polyrhythmic hydra head snaps with sweaty, dancefloor driven fervour – when every one beat is chopped off, two more appear. The New York/Chicago act crowbar post punk rhythms, clubby claustrophobia and buzzsaw riffs into a twitchy sonic straitjacket. Appropriate then that frontwoman Anna Barie occasionally likes to go off on one and writhe about on the floor amid the yelps and caterwauling, while bandmates, Pat Noecker (ex-Liars) and Bill Salas try to restrict the compositions’ structure to mere organised chaos. Perhaps These Are Powers greatest trick is the edgy sense of drama they bring to their aural tightrope act, somehow finding a sense of balance, when equilibrium is in short supply. Support from Cap Pas Cap, Thread Pulls and Grey Mayhem. Win Tickets / Mark Keane

Weekend markets seem to be ten-a-penny in Dublin all of a sudden. Whether it’s antique furniture, second-hand clothes, old records or cheese and olives you’re after, somewhere around town there’s a stall for you. What we like about the Kit 'n' Caboodle is that it involves people selling their own creations instead of their cast-offs. It also helps that there’s live music and cheap drinks so you can have a booze or even a bop while you browse. The Pod’s outdoor area is filled with stalls selling art, jewellery, ornaments, clothes and all sorts of other handmade goods from Irish and international craft-makers for this monthly event. But be warned: shopping under the influence can be dangerous. / Anne Hayden

Serge Gainsbourg's life was perhaps almost too complicated to be satisfactorily served by film. However, Joann Sfar's Gainsbourg Vie héroïque illustrates some of those complications, which all began with growing up Jewish in a Nazi-occupied Paris. His early sense of being an outsider fuelled all that he did; and the need to provoke, as he walked a tightrope, both emotionally and creatively, was the only criteria he was interested in for living a meaningful life. We see moments of joy where he is lost in creation and connection, and it is not acceptance from the French Establishment that he is looking for (see his reggae version of Le Marseillaise), but unconditional love and truth, wherever he can get it. Luckily, he sometimes inhabits this, as does Eric Elmosnino who astonishingly portrays the rebellious Gainsbourg. / Siobhán Kane

A papier-mâché model made out of refund tickets? A sound installation featuring a selection of the mobile phone ringtones favoured by the knackers on the 13A? An obstacle course where the primary aim is to avoid contact with Luas trams that cross your path? Just a few examples of what you might encounter at 'Exact Fare Only', an exhibition of work inspired by a local institution that's not celebrated nearly enough – Dublin Bus. Among those paying tribute are artists Hugh Cooney, Rory Buckley and Philip Kennedy and the exhibition runs at The Bernard Shaw until 18th August. Pop down and fill your boots down the back of The Shaw's very own Big Blue Bus. / Joey Kavanagh

'Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?' So begins the Hard Rain Exhibition, a collection of photography that attempts to weave the world's suffering around the lyrics of Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall. 'I heard one person starve, I heard many people laughin'. An image, matched to each line, shows how man has impacted on the planet and each other. Deforestation, drought, human suffering, the exhibition communicates all these problems into a single call for action. 'And I'll tell it, and think it, and speak it, and breathe it'. Seen by millions around the world, the exhibition is part of a global project to create 'a new human mentality' before man lurches into an inescapable crisis. Dylan was speaking of the fear of nuclear winter in his song – now we fear a never-ending one. 'And it's a hard, It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall.' / Hugh Torpey

Enjoy a spot of otherworldly peace in St Kevin’s Park, just metres from the bustle of Camden Street, close to Whelan's. A former cemetery, the consecrated grounds are alive with history, yet unassuming with ivy-clad charm. Dating back to the 13th century, the cemetery was popular with body snatchers in the 17th century, and final resting place for victims of the famine and cholera in the 18th and 19th centuries. Reputedly some of the park's permanent residents are not so restful - one of its most infamous spirits that of cursed Bishop Dermot Hurley. Ghost-hunters take note - high season for his undead ramblings is late July. / Aoife Concannon

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