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This week’s Zingers include murder suspects, a surreal escapologist, a night inspired by The Prisoner plus Dexy’s Midnight Runners duetting with LL Cool J.

Catch new bands for 2011, with three bands for £10 at venues across London from next week.

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 …

Blue-eyed boy: Johnny Flynn The nature of ‘ones to watch’ type events, in which you can neatly insert the HMV Next Big Thing festival, denotes that most of the bands chosen have already been kicking around the gig circuit for some time. Such is the …

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, and signed to the iconic Subpop Records, a label some of us still associate with Nirvana and many other purveyors of early-nineties grunge, Blitzen Trapper are a heady mixture of countrified indie-rock punctuated with a mild psychedelic noise. Though operating with …

Big Hand are a ska-funk group from Edinburgh. We first enjoyed their pacy, trumpet-laden sound about four years ago during a trip north of the border. They’ve been busy touring ever since and return to London at the weekend, playing the Camden Barfly on Saturday …

Image courtesy of matteb83 under a Creative Commons Attribution licence We’re expecting to hear a lot from Noah and the Whale over the next few months. With a slew of festival appearances over the summer, a second album and accompanying film out at the end …

With their decidedly evocative rock n’ rock name, Doll & The Kicks have already ensured that they will grab your attention. Are they the New York Dolls meets Undertones classic ‘Teenage Kicks’? Or are they Juliette and The Licks? Well, neither exactly. But they clearly …

The weather may have been all over the place lately, but San Francisco based collective Still Flyin’ are doing their bit to raise Londoner’s spirits with a gig at the Barfly this Wednesday. The fifteen-headed party beast is the brainchild of Sean Rawls and their …

Amidst a line-up of little-known British bands performing at Camden’s Barfly venue last night were an act who may well be performing to much larger crowds in the near future. Carolina Liar have had their songs featured on every American teen show you can think …