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Image courtesy of Pearl Jam Official under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Listen up rock fans – you won’t want to miss this. Pearl Jam have announced a tiny gig (by their arena-filling standards) at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 11 August. Frankly, getting tickets …

Image courtesy of pieter.morlion under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. At a loose end tomorrow afternoon? If you fancy a bit of folk-punk-protest live music, hop on the Northern Line and head down to The Flowerpot in Camden where Billy Bragg will be playing at …

Kapranos on the Roundhouse stage “You’re a quiet audience,” says Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, addressing a packed Roundhouse on the sixth night of the iTunes Festival in Camden. Given the random mix of die-hard fans and casual visitors here tonight, for a few minutes perhaps …

Image courtesy of Silvio Tanaka under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. The iTunes Festival has become a bit of a summer fixture for us here at Londonist. That’s mainly because it’s free (we like free stuff), but also because the line up has always been …

Image courtesy of the BFI on Twitter Barring an increase in the level of applause, nothing much happens when Nick Cave enters the room. Darkness doesn’t close in and a chill doesn’t descend. Given the Australian’s apparent obsession with death, that’s almost a surprise. Cave …

We’ve been looking forward to the Blur reunion ever since it was announced. And after Saturday’s triumphant gig at the East Anglian Railway Museum they’ve just (within the last ten minutes) announced they’re playing a gig to 170 people at a mystery London venue this …

Image courtesy of staxnet under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. Apparently Ozomatli are named after the Aztec monkey god of dance. It seems a fitting moniker for this hard-to-pigeonhole group from LA, who’ll be visiting the Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 29 June with their unique …

Image courtesy of chrisisgood under a Creative Commons Attribution licence We’ve taken a real liking to Suggs. Whether he’s releasing records about the city, running a festival in Victoria Park or simply playing Madness hits from the top of a bus, it’s clear he’s London …

Image courtesy of bill shouldis under a Creative Commons Attribution licence We’re not quite sure where to start with this one. Anvil are a barely-successful metal band who – outside their small but obsessional fanbase – nobody’s ever heard of. At least they hadn’t until …

Image courtesy of deadmartyr under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. The MOJO Honours List is almost upon us again (what do you mean, you hadn’t noticed?) and in the run up to the awards ceremony there’s a series of gigs happening at the recently-renamed HMV …