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Well it’s a delectable diversity of delicacies for your discerning palates this week; a week that’s already seen Jacko walk free and brought the news that Christina Aguilera’s music has been used during ‘interrogations‘ at Guantanamo Bay. Obviously the US army has never heard of …

Not much in the way of new tours this week so we’ll focus on the fine art of not getting ripped off when trying to get tickets for sold out shows. Touts are not our favourite breed of human being (if they can indeed be …

Dinosaur Jr – Forum – Wednesday 8th June Michael Azerrad describes a meeting between Lou Barlow (then ex bass player of Dinosaur Jr) and J Mascis (ongoing guitar player of Dinosaur Jr). Barlow had been sacked in the most insalubrious of circumstances; more or less …

Now that Coldplay appreciation week has officially ended on Londonist and we’re up ironing our plaid shirts in readiness for tonight’s Dinosaur Jr gig at the Forum, there’s just time to quickly mention a few other shows that have passed through town recently. And in …

Coldplay – Kokos – Monday 6th June Here’s an interesting experiment in delerium. Is it possible for a sleep deprived Londonista to pen a hasty review and make any sense at all? 20 hours ago Noisy Londonist dragged their sorry arse out of bed and …

If you fancy a free show, a free beer and the chance to catch yourself on the telly then read on. Tomorrow night at the Marquee the lovely folks from Plum Promotions are throwing the doors open at 6 for the recording of a new …

Lightning flashes around Londonist Towers. A heavy-leather-gauntlet clad fist pounds the boardroom table as our Editor screams: Controversy! I want controversy you two-fingered-typing Pitman-pushing hacks! An invisible grip tightens around our throats. And down here in the Londonist Music Dungeon who are we to argue. …

After a busy week being blown into small pieces by the Todd/Oxbow show; breaking into warm smiles with Teenage Fanclub and being bowled over by newbies The Delta Blues – all of whom have been mentioned in these here pages, dear readers – it’s time …

And so is came to pass that the Lord looked upon the world and saw that there was still much pain and suffering as a result of smug greedy Western governments shafting their poorer cousins in a most unrighteous manner. And he saw that despite …

So it was the week that the Crazy Frog beat Coldplay to the number one slot, and suddenly everyone cares about the singles chart again! Still at least Coldplay’s X&Y was leaked on to file sharing networks (not free music sites as you might like …