Their debut album may not have sold billions, but Carl Barat is plowing on with his post Libertines band, Dirty Pretty Things, as they return tonight fresh from the glow of the Glastonbury Festival. Celebrating the release of their 2nd album 'Romance At Short Notice', the boys will be putting on a free instore gig tonight at HMV Oxford Street at 6pm. Head along early to collect a wristband if you want to get......

Every now and then, a bit of London-centric news drifts around the Londonist newsroom (which doesn't exist but imagine a bunch of emails flying around in lieu of an actual office) and is not paid that much attention. However, there comes a time when something requires a closer look for what it is really saying, such as this report on a poll for the top ten London film locations. Commissioned by cinema advertising company......

Almost time for the London Film Festival again! This year the event is opened by David Cronenberg's London-set Eastern Promises - Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen following up A History of Violence with this violent tale of Russian organised crime, penned by Steve Dirty Pretty Things Knight. One to watch for sure. Closing the festival is the new Wes Anderson movie, The Darjeeling Limited. In between there are some 180+ feature films and 133 shorts,......

Never ones for being the most talkative on stage, Muse played the first night of their two night stand at the new Wembley Stadium with few words to the audience. This was more than made up for however, by the enthusiastic set full of surprises. If you’re going to the Sunday Muse gig I’d strongly suggest not reading the rest of this review if you want to keep it all a surprise. Going back to......

Read our review of Saturday's Muse show here. George Michael may have been the first artist to play Wembley last weekend, however two of the most significant new shows at Wembley is set to be Muse’s two night stand at the stadium this weekend. Fans have been waiting for 9 months since tickets first went on sale, and now this weekend it seems that some of the most impressive gigs to ever hit Wembley......

If the London movie map created by FilmLondon and VisitLondon is to be believed, there are few places in this city that haven't been filmed. So next time you have a 'this could be in a film' moment when you're out, that's probably because it was. London's most often depicted as a jolly place full of Routemaster buses, rather than afloat with porridgey puddles of pavement sick and confused tourists. And yes, there's a......

After a busy but musically uneventful week it was a choice between writing at length about playing at yet another wedding with my covers band at the weekend or looking at the outside world for inspiration. After a quick Google search for interesting music-related news stories this evening I hit the jackpot almost straight away. Good old FOXNews.com are declaring that "teens start having sex sooner if their preferred music has sexually degrading lyrics". In......

Just a couple of gigs coming up that we wanted to mention quickly since we've been away for a few weeks. Saturday: is of course the Love Music Hate Racism free gig in Trafalgar Square. Along with Belle and Sebastian, Lethal Bizzle, Boy Kill Boy, Kray Twinz, The Paddingtons, Roll Deep and a bunch of Babyshambles fans wondering whether or not they should just follow Dirty Pretty Things instead will be all girl post......

So last week we told you about a few instore gigs happening and now we can't seem to stop finding them. Were you at Dirty Pretty Things at HMV last night? Are you going to see the Brakes at Fopp in Camden tonight? No? Then see if any of these take your fancy... The Boy Least Likely To will be signing copies of their new single and performing live tonight at HMV Oxford Street......

Last night, we calmly mooched along Oxford Street at 8pm taking our time to get to the pleasantly open late Apple Store on Regent Street to buy a birthday present for today. When we got there it was shut, and there were a gaggle of teenagers outside. Checking exactly what was going on via web on our phones (asking a real person is too much), we were mildly pissed off to find that Richard......

Anyone with even a hint of taste and decency will know that the only time to drink Carling is after you've been atomised by a particularly nasty nuclear power station meltdown. And yet still their indominatable quest to tie up every concert venue in the country continues, as does their role as foremost sponsors of UK indie-guitar rock. As they have done for the past couple of years, they're endeavouring to kick off the......

Eel Pie Eccentrics Mystery Jets have never been ones to do things in the regular rock'n'roll way, possibly why their Dad plays in the band, and possibly why they've just started an online treasure hunt ahead of their debut album and a small tour in support that takes in the Mean Fiddler on the 9th March. Clue 1. There's no place like home. Ah, that's easy then. Off to find a copy of Dark......

A heavy duty start to this week's new listings with Brazilian thrash titans Soulfly, getting some kind of cheesy Londonist thumbs up of the week, back over here on the 7th February at the Astoria to pummel some heads with their excellent new Dark Ages album. Trivium's star is certainly shining in the metal firmament at the moment so a somewhat triumphant return to the Astoria on March 15th. Sludge rockers Monster Magnet, again......

We mentioned Danny Boyle's new Sci Fi movie a while back after chatting to him at Raindance East, but we now have a press release stating that principle photography on the now Untitled Sunshine Project has just begun. It also reveals some pretty interesting casting choices: DNA Films and Fox Searchlight Pictures announced that principal photography has begun in London on THE UNTITLED SUNSHINE PROJECT. The film once again pairs helmer Danny Boyle with......

U2, Wirelss, Live 8, B-Live, Queen, REM it's not exactly been about the small shows recently. So the cockles were gently stoked when we finally saw the words intimate show again recently. First off was the news that Elbow are back in September on Tuesday 6th, the day after the release of their new album: Leaders Of The Free World. Guy Garvey may be the human looking equivalent of Droopy but the thought of......