Dinosaur Jr

For the superfans and the faithful, the annual Don’t Look Back gigs tend to be a highlight of the year. Bands who’ve been knocking about for a good while take time out for a special gig where they play back one of their classic albums …

On Friday, the slacker rock icons Dinosaur Jr. returned to London to play Camden’s Koko in support of their recent “Farm” album. When the original line-up of Dinosaur Jr. (J Mascis, Murph and Lou Barlow) reunited four years ago, much to everyone’s surprise after such …

Image courtesy of deadmartyr under a Creative Commons Attribution licence. The MOJO Honours List is almost upon us again (what do you mean, you hadn’t noticed?) and in the run up to the awards ceremony there’s a series of gigs happening at the recently-renamed HMV …

As both bands and fans saunter back to the capital with the mother of all hangovers from Glastonbury, this week is a bit slow for music in the capital. Things are also running a bit slow for this Londonista, thus the later than normal posting …

Celebrate Ben Franklin’s 300th birthday with the Bikini Bandits and Phillyist! (NSFW). Speaking of Mr. Franklin, send in a picture of Ben (or Ed Rendell) with a red tongue and win a free t-shirt. And they might have the next YearlyKos in Philly. You know …

Just two gigs to tell you about this week because we’re still pissed that we’re going to miss both The Shins on Thursday at Koko and Radiohead at Hammersmith on Thursday and Friday. If you can get tickets to either show, then we highly recommend …

Ahoy there me hearties, it’s day two of the Music Dungeonistas’ look back at those musical moments of 2005 that made us go weak of knee, teary of eye and moist of crotch. Today it’s Noisy Londonist’s (Mark’s) turn, and yes, that Coldplay gig is …

Don’t buy anyone any Christmas presents. Spend your money on these gigs instead: So lovely they even have their own made up language, Sigur Ros play a night at the Hammersmith Apollo on March 29, with all manner of collaborators in the pipeline. The Glastonbury …

It’s been a good year for guitar pop bands and a good year for the folk and anti-folk scenes. So how did the Londonist music dungeon find itself rediscovering the joys of good heavy thrashing noise somewhere between Maximo Park and Sufjan Stevens? No idea, …

Ever since Al Jolson opened his gob in the Jazz Singer the worlds of cinema and rock’n’roll have become inextricably linked. You’re going to have to go with us on the Jazz Singer rock’n’roll analogy but you know what we mean. Almost 100 years later …