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The month-long free gig jamboree that is the iTunes Festival rolls back into Camden in a few weeks. And, as expected, there’s a pretty impressive line-up to match The Roundhouse which is, we’re sure you’d agree, a pretty impressive venue. Most of the 31 nights …

If you could somehow have transported the builders of The Roundhouse back to the Camden venue for last night’s Chemical Brothers gig, they’d have been stupefied. Because the electronic dance duo shook the character-rich venue to its Victorian foundations with a bowel-shaking, laser-lit performance of …

Field Day 2009 by suburbanslice in the Londonist Flickr pool If you have a dislike of loud, live music and happen to live within earshot of Victoria Park, it’d probably be an idea to get well away from the area come late July. Because while …

“Moving, just keep moving,” sang Supergrass. And now they really are, having decided to go their separate ways after 16 years and six albums. Ok, so the Oxford pop-rockers may never have achieved quite the success of some other bands that began life in the …

The Camden Crawl takes place this year on 1st and 2nd May, and it’s certainly a bit different to your normal festival. For a start, you can go back to your own bed at the end of each night. And with so many sweaty, sticky, …

Up for a treasure hunt? Into your psychedelic indie pop? You’re in luck: synth-driven duo MGMT are planning a little game today. Apparently, something called the MGMTmobile will be parking up at a mystery location in London. Your job is to decipher the clues posted …

Band meeting! Flight of the Conchords, formerly New Zealand’s fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo acapella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo, will be headlining a considerably larger venue than usual when they visit the Hammersmith Apollo for two nights in May. Playing a range of hits from their back …

Folk-pop-poet Laura Marling has a new album out soon. To coincide with its release she’s announced a tiny gig at the Camden Barfly on 23 March. Marling’s beautiful tunes combine effortless melancholy with an impressive vocal range and power, and this could be the best …

Brendan Benson. Ring any bells? If you don’t know of this singer-songwriter in his own right, you might be familiar with one of his other projects. He’s a key member of The Raconteurs, providing proper poppy guitar melodies and memorable lyrics to balance Jack White’s …

You can be forgiven if you missed Pete and the Pirates first time round. The likeable five-piece’s debut album came out during the guitar band glut of 2008, when separating the landfill indie from the good stuff was a Herculean task. We won’t hold it …