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Back in 2006 while Messers Blunt, Morrison and Nutini were making pop-folk fashionable, another group of apparently similar singer-songwriters like Tom Baxter, Teddy Thompson and Scott Matthews were serving up more intriguing, brooding fare. Matthews’ debut, ‘Passing Stranger’, passed most people by, but it was …

Trying to categorise Finnish musician and producer Jimi Tenor is about as straightforward as Flight of the Conchords’ tortuous epithet: how about lounge-exotica soul-jazz voodoo-funk space-rock? Looking at the stage at Cargo this evening, you could add digi-bongo to that too. Over a dozen or …

Walking into ULU tonight, it seems someone thought summer’s arrived and cranked the air-con up to 11. It’s quite appropriate, though, as openers Telepathe haven’t come to set the roof on fire, more like chill the place down like a cold storage container. The duo …

Leaving a band is one thing, leaving your brother behind is another. But that’s what Brandon Curtis, previously of prog-rockers Secret Machines, did when he formed School of Seven Bells in 2007. You’ll have the chance to find out what makes his new project so …

ActionAid’s 6 Degrees initiative tonight brought together female artists and DJs to raise awareness and funds for projects in Uganda. Alessi’s Ark – diminutive, pixie-voiced West Londoner Alessi Laurent-Marke – opens the proceedings with a full band set. It’s twee and folky territory, with songs …

Photo by Alex Cottrill from the Londonist Flickr pool Head to Brighton and behind the throng of daytrippers and holidaymakers, there’s a melancholic echo of days gone by: Salt air peels paint from houses. End of the pier entertainments, the ghostly voice of the old …