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Antony Hegarty cohort Joan As Police Woman returns early next year with a new album, The Deep Field (1-13 Feb, tour begins O2 Academy Oxford, ticketweb.co.uk or seetickets.com ) … Crystal Castles will be headlining the NME Awards Tour (3-19 Feb, tour begins O2 Academy Glasgow, gigsandtours.com ), hitting the road with Magnetic Man, Everything Everything and the Vaccines … Drake brings over his Light Dreams & Nightmares tour (4-14 Jan, tour begins O2 Academy Glasgow, livenation.co.uk ) … Pulp make their return at Wireless (3 Jul, Hyde Park, W1, wirelessfestival.co.uk ) … While pioneering post-punks Wire go on strong with dates following the release of LP Red Barked Tree (1-10 Feb, tour begins Komedia, Brighton, ticketmaster.co.uk ) … May's ATP curators Animal Collective have so far lined up Gang Gang Dance, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti among the performers (13-15 May, Butlins Minehead, atpfestival.com ) … And anyone worried they were dead and buried will be please to hear Kyuss Lives! on without Josh Homme (31 Mar-6 Apr, tour starts Rock City, Nottingham, seetickets.com ).