London girl Catherine Anne Davies has had some outstanding press, so with high hopes we attended her gig at Bush Hall on Thursday night. A fair size audience, made up largely of young indie chicks and industry heads, demonstrated Catherine's growing popularity - a singer described by the NME as "How Kate Bush would sound if she died and went to hell" (which is supposed to be a compliment). Described as a 'gothic folk......

The End of the Road festival in Dorset has made some firm fans for itself over the last couple of years. As a final teaser before the festival proper, the curators are hosting a gig right here in London at the intimate Bush Hall on Uxbridge Road on Wednesday night (30th July). Former Ash bassist Charlotte Hatherley headlines the gig and is worth the ticket price along with this being her only London date......

It's been a strange ol' week for Londonist music-wise. On Monday we got worried about a rise in nightclub violence, on Tuesday caught Goldfrapp at Union Chapel, on Wednesday caught Nick Cave at HMV and on Thursday got excited about a new-ish club night at Three Blind Mice. Looking ahead to this week however, Monday sees Panic At the Disco and Kate Nash play sold out shows at the Roundhouse and Hammersmith Apollo respectively, whilst......

This week, Londonist caught two bands at either end of the musical scale - American metal stars Wolves in the Throne Room @ Underworld and the ever great Elbow at an intimate Porchester Hall show. We also started offering you the chance to win tickets to see Late of the Pier on February 28th. We also previewed the forthcoming second iTunes festival, which starts this coming Thursday. Looking forward to this week however, Monday night......

Philadelphia experimental indie stars Enon play the Luminaire on Monday night, with around 17 tickets left (at time of writing) on We Got Tickets. Support comes in the shape of Ill Ease, which features "Elizabeth Sharp playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker, car horn and anything else that rattles, buzzes, shakes or hums in a riff-o-matic racket" apparently. Should be good. Meanwhile over at 93 Feet East, Seattle singer-songwriter David Bazan plays his folk-rock. Tickets......

To be honest the rain and coldness is kind of making us not want to go to gigs at the moment, preferring instead to wrap ourselves up warmly at home. But if we did, this is what we'd be bouncing at. Monday: The biggie tomorrow is of course Led Zep at the O2, but you've more chance of meeting Santa than getting tickets for that. So instead, forget the dinosaurs and try something new......

Noah and The Whale. It's amazing what names bands are coming up with these days, but somehow this fantastical one suits one of our new favourite bands. We know we're a bit behind the times here, after all Noah's crew have been making waves since the summer, but for some reason we've only just properly listened to them and wow. Noah and The Whale are part of the newly cool folk scene. If we......

In celebration of their 25th anniversary, avant-garde music magazine The Wire will be keeping the capital busy this month with a series of gigs under the banner Wire 25. Whilst many of the events are up our street, we were most excited to hear that two of the gigs were being organised by one of our favourite promoters, [no.signal]. Their evening with Tony Conrad this past June at St. Giles-in-the-Fields was the most fun......

Experimental hardcore stars The Locust play The Underworld on Monday night. Tickets are £12 each, and still available for box office collection. Emo favourites Circa Survive play the Barfly, though tickets are long gone. The Ravonettes play Bush Hall for a sold out show, former Japan frontman David Sylvian plays Royal Festival Hall, with a smattering of tickets available at £37.50 each. John Mayer plays the first of two sold out nights at the Royal......

It seems summer is officially over now (though it seems to have never properly arrived really…), and with that the early autumn tours start to make an appearance. First on Monday night are two bands that are playing at this weekend’s Connect festival, Modest Mouse and the Polyphonic Spree. American band Modest Mouse play the Forum, with standing tickets sold out, but still with seats available at £18.50 each. The Spree brings their triumphant show......

Monday night seems all is dead in the capital, with New York kids Matt & Kim playing their power pop at The Cuban, Camden. Tickets are still available at £5 each. Pink starts a two night V Fest warm up on Tuesday at Carling Academy Brixton. Tickets are sold out, however be sure to check out Scarlet Mist or other methods of getting unwanted tickets. Skinny Puppy bring their industrial goth electro-rock to the Astoria,......

As most major bands go into festival mode at the moment, London plays host to the best of the alternative bands from across the UK and worldwide. German classic rock your sort of thing? Then on Monday night get along to the Hammersmith Apollo, where Scorpions are playing their re-union tour (who isn’t doing a re-union tour these days?) Support comes from The Michael Schenker Group, and tickets are £35 each, still available from the......

Five years after the success of "Strange and Beautiful", famously used in a car advert, Aqualung (aka 35 year old singer-songwriter Matt Hales) takes to the stage of Shepherds Bush's elegant Bush Hall. It's almost a wonder that we're here at all - his UK profile has dwindled over the years, and history threatened to write him off as a one hit wonder. When all seemed lost, his career has recently been rejuvenated by......

As the festival season kicks off into full swing, the range of “normal” bands playing the capital starts to dwindle as they recover from their Download and Isle of Wight sized hangovers and prepare for a Wireless one this weekend. First up, on Monday night, The Fratellis play Scala, which is well and truly sold out, however you may be able to get a last minute offer on scarlet mist or equivalent. If you like......

Another exciting week of music in the capital coming up, with us here to give you the best guide through what's hot and what's not in the indie / pop scenes this week. Want a lazy way to spend your Bank Holiday Monday? Why not see Good Shoes at Morden Park bandstand? They're on at 2pm, and we previewed it earlier last week here. Later on Monday evening The Holloways play The Electric Ballroom......

Scout Niblett takes to the stage without a fuss, arranging her guitar pedals and setting out handwritten pages on the floor. Dressed in red, she and her drummer don't begin to fill Bush Hall's tiny stage but as new single "Dinosaur Egg" kicks off the relaxed, intimate set it's immediately apparent that what they lack in physical size they make up for in decibels. And how the crowd adore her, clustering in a semi......

Thoughtful, haunting and slightly odd, Scout Niblett's music is the kind that creeps up on you unawares and sinks its beautiful, fuzzy-guitared teeth in. With a new EP out on Monday and a show at Bush Hall the same night, Scout's a busy woman but we managed to catch up with her by email to discuss more important matters: Rugeley, astrology and stink bombs. Oh, and supporting Iggy Pop at this summer's Meltdown... So,......

Lots of big events and comebacks on sale tomorrow, so we'll jump straight in: First up as some of you may be aware Prince has announced 21 shows throughout the summer in London, including 8 nights at the O2 arena, playing on Wednesday 1st, Friday 3rd, Saturday 4th, Tuesday 7th, Friday 10th, Saturday 11th and Tuesday 14th August. Expect these to sell out quickly when they go on sale tomorrow morning at 9am, at......

Lucky Soul play their biggest gig to date when they fill the lovely environs of Bush Hall with their appropriately sweet, melodic sound in little over a week on 16th May. Tickets for the gig are a measly £7, and can be bought online. In much the same way that Doctor Who turns on a load of bunsen burners before flicking on a shorted light circuit in a vain attempt to fend off a......

Burlesque entertainment. It's been with us for a century and a half, giving us provocative glimpses of female flesh, more nipple tassles than are strictly necessary, and performers with names that teeter on the thin line between cartoon characters and porn stars. After its recent revival in the U.S., it was only natural that we'd slip into the neo-burlesque renaissance on this side of the pond... and this week, London has its first Burlesque......

Those of you familiar with the superb Canada-based band Metric (see here and here and indeed here for past mentions) will know that frontwoman Emily Haines recently released a solo album full of deliciously dark piano ballads called "Knives Don't Have Your Back". You'll also know that she's playing songs off that album at Bush Hall on Saturday 2nd June, and that you can get the cheapest tickets here. For the rest of you, see......

Lucky Soul, a band we love so much we're afraid we'll be served with an injunction if we gush about them any more, play their biggest gig to date when they headline at Bush Hall on 16th May. Tickets are a bargainous £7 (available online at We Got Tickets). It's a great opportunity to catch a band very much on the up, as they celebrate the rave reviews being served on their debut album,......

Since we retired Monday Music Review (R.I.P.) we haven't done much by way of album reviews but we had to make a big exception for Lucky Soul, a band we've been bigging up on Londonist since we fell in love with them on first listen... In calling their debut album The Great Unwanted, and so arming reviewers with an easy insult if their opinion is not favourable, Lucky Soul are either extremely naïve or......

There's another video for Sarah Nixey's blossoming solo career doing the rounds and this time it's for the previously unheard Utopia-esque When I'm Here With You and set in the very lovely Bush Hall. It's released on January 29th as the 3rd single from the forthcoming February album Sing, Memory. And if you the sound of intelligent pop meeting twisted electro basslines, then this should be an album you're very much looking forward to.......

Returning this week with his second album Afro Strut, Amp Fiddler made his mark on the music scene back in 2004 with his critcially acclaimed first album Waltz of a Ghetto Fly. But we've got to be honest, when we heard Afro Strut we didn't really have much of a clue who he was. Sure, we've seen the name Amp Fiddler, but shockingly appear to have thought it was some kind of acoustic night......

We love Bank Holiday Mondays. They make the week go so quickly, we forget to arrange to do anything on the Friday. If you're as useless at reading a calendar as us, here's a couple of suggestions: Londonist favourite Fiona Bevan (whose debut EP we cited as one of our favourite records of 2005) plays tonight at one of our favourite venues: Bush Hall. She's on as part of the Buzz Night and she's on......

So what have we picked for you this week? Tonight: Indie shoegazers unite, you have nothing to lose but your memories as Ride's Mark Gardener promotes his new solo outing: Beautiful Ghosts. Televise and Model Morning These join the bill at the Luminaire. Elsewhere, quirky art-pop punkers The Victorian English Gentlemens Club play a free show at Catch 22 with Black Wire. Band onstage at 9.15 Saturday: Glam gutterpunks Lorca play Flook @ Nambucca,......

Not a moment's hesitation in recommending The Eighteenth Day Of May's Bush Hall show on the 28th April as our buy of the week. If you need to ask why then there's gonna be tears and spilt milk at tea time. We give the Americans James Blunt, insipid ex-army bloke who makes Heat readers go week at the knees because he registers with the part of the brain that induces coma. They give us......

Time once again to take a gander at a couple of shows coming up over the next seven days that have shone out from within the Londonist Music inbox. Most of the action this week is taking place in sold out venues across the capital with names such as James Blunt and The Magic Numbers re-invigorating the (qu)easy listening genre, whilst Kanye West continues to be the biggest name in hip hop since the......

We just have time, before heading up to Islington this evening, to bring you a quick round up of some recommended gigs for the week ahead. If you're yet to make plans for this evening, then we suggest you follow us up to the Bar Academy to catch the wonderful Four Day Hombre. The album turned up in the post the other day and we'll bring you a review of that and tonight's gig......