Fuji Rock: who to watch

Sunday

Radiohead

Fuji Rock started the same year OK Computer came out, but it's taken the festival this long to snag Radiohead. The group's two-hour show on Sunday night is guaranteed to draw the largest crowd of the weekend, even if – as seems likely – they ditch the singalongs in favour of material from last year's brittle The King of Limbs album. Green Stage, 9.30pm

Watch on YouTube: Lotus Flower (The King of Limbs Sessions)

Jack White

Hold on... third from the top of the bill? Jack White could easily have handled a headlining slot, though we'll be happy to take whatever we can get. The former White Stripes man came out blazing on this year's Blunderbuss, his first solo album to date, and his recent live shows have been getting stellar reviews. Green Stage, 5.30pm

Watch on YouTube: Freedom at 21

Fucked Up

Bearish frontman Damian Abraham's presence alone is enough to guarantee that most Fucked Up shows are a hoot, but these Canadians cram more ambition into a single song than most hardcore punk bands show in an entire career: witness last year's widely adored David Comes to Life, an 18-song 'rock opera' set in Thatcherite Britain. White Stage, 4.40pm

Watch on YouTube: Queen of Hearts (Live)

Galactic

This New Orleans combo have been redefining the sound of the Bayou since the mid-'90s, lacing their sweaty funk jams with hip hop, psych rock and – on new album Carnivale Electricos – Brazilian street music. Joined by Living Colour vocalist Corey Glover and trombonist Corey Henry, Galactic promise to whip up one hell of a party. Green Stage, 12.30pm

Watch on YouTube: Hey Na Na

At The Drive-In

If you're going to miss Radiohead, you need a good excuse. Though guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez has described At The Drive-In's reunion as 'more of a nostalgia thing', that doesn't seem to have dimmed the intensity of the band's festival dates this year. White Stage, 10.10pm

Watch: One Armed Scissor (Live)

Japandroids

They didn't call their sophomore album Celebration Rock for nothing, you know. Few hipster-approved bands put on a show quite as fist-pumping as Vancouver duo Japandroids. Hell, they might even be worth getting up early on a Sunday morning for. Red Marquee, 11.30am

Watch on YouTube: The Boys Are Leaving Town (Live)

Godzilla Hoshano Hikashu

It's the most high-concept show of the entire festival: experimental odd bods Hikashu hook up with former bandmate Makoto Inoue for a radiation-themed performance of the synth player's Godzilla Legend album, with help from members of Shibusashirazu Orchestra and accordion-toting sisters Charan-Po-Rantan. Huh? Orange Court, 11.30am; Gypsy Avalon, 4.30pm

Watch on YouTube: Moretsu na Christmas Densetsu

Take a chance on...

Alt-J (Red Marquee, 12.40pm) Sounding like a young Devendra Banhart jamming with The Books, this self-described 'folk-step' quartet vacillate between humdrum and utterly brilliant on debut album An Awesome Wave. Should be half great, at least

Michael Kiwanuka (Red Marquee, 3.10pm) The winner of the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll channels an Otis Redding-style soulfulness. Not exactly pushing the envelope, but if it's honest-to-god songwriting you're after, Kiwanuka's your man

Macmanaman (Rookie A Go-Go, 3am) Most people will probably be in bed by this point on Sunday night, but the true festival hardcore can get an appropriately hardcore soundtrack from these ferocious Fukuoka math-rockers