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XX Teens are the latest London band to succumb to our Listen Up! harassment. If you used to hang out at Art Rocker up in Islington you might have bumped into them when they were still known as Xerox Teens, but after narrowly avoiding a …

March already? How did that happen? The perils of having our head buried in a book so much of the time, no doubt. If we must emerge this week from our cosy little book-enclosed chrysalis, it’ll likely be to head to the following events. Monday: …

This week saw Londonist Get Scientific when we previewed We Are Scientists playing Soho Revue Bar this Tuesday, get excited about Eurovision and get cosy with Portico Quartet. A busy week all in all! Looking ahead to this week however, we have Eels playing Royal …

This weekend column is brought to you by the founders of Niceties Tokens, Liz and Pete of Team Nice. 32. Office Boy Band So recently I have been looking at office culture and anti-social issues within the workplace. Purely because over the years I have …

One of our favourite UK bands, Sons & Daughters are back with a new album and tonight they’ll be showing it off for free. To celebrate the release of their new single ‘Darling’, the Scottish indie stars will be performing and signing cds at Fopp …

Whilst the Sex Pistols and The Verve were hawking their wares for the proper reviewers, Londonist was hightailing it down to the Empire for an early start. Since The Broken Family Band cashed in the cool Cambridge climes for our dirty old town, we can …

Sampled the delights of Oxjam yet? If not, why not? The festival’s reached the halfway point, and Oxfam’s million-pound fundraising goal won’t get any nearer with you sitting around on your hands watching Emmerdale when you could be bopping in your Birkenstocks and raising money …

Kick off the week tomorrow with Stephen Fretwell at Cadogen Hall (£15). The singer songwriter is touring his 3rd album “Man On The Roof” and by all accounts it’s pretty good. Or if you like your things with a bit more soul (or rubbish pop …

Free music is where it’s at. Fact. But free music combined with a campaign against racism gets a nice fat thumbs up from us. This weekend sees the annual Rise festival hit London and this time round it’s going two days. If you’re over on …

This Week In London’s History Monday – 9th July 1968: The Hayward art gallery on the South Bank is opened by the Queen. Tuesday – 10th July 1958: Britain’s first parking meters are installed in Mayfair. Soon there would be 625 of them in the …