You know when you have to go to a conference or exhibition with work and it’s so boring that you can’t even remember what you saw during the day? If you’re lucky, the conference is an overnighter with a party or two thrown in as …
Faced with a bewildering array of ways to consume music, today’s mp3-hungry media-savvy fans have come to expect their rock and roll served up on a plate. What with digital music revenues tripling from 2004 to 2005, online marketing certainly seems the sensible option for …
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Well it’s been an eventful week for Londonist’s favourite court jester Pete No-showherty and his Babydimples. Firstly there was a no show at the Big Gay Out. And then he’s been reported to have had a fight with some guys and had to hide in …
Fans of Kaiser Chiefs (the band, not the football team) will no doubt be excited about the release of the debut album Employment today. They should be even more excited to learn that Kaiser Chiefs will be playing a free gig at HMV on Oxford …
As surely as A&R people follow a bandwagon, an album follows a remember-us-we’re-back single. And so Doves follow up their relatively upbeat single Black and White Town with the album it comes from: Some Cities. Kitty Empire at The Observer is equivocal. She dismantles the …
The main album release this week is Bloc Party‘s debut LP ‘Silent Alarm’. Generally positive reviews abound, with the consensus being 8 or 9 out of ten. Most reviews mention the Franz Ferdinand connection, taking different stances. NME’s review reckons that “the more you think …
New General Catalogue is the debut album from Billericay-based Redjetson. To be honest with you, Londonist nearly gave up on this album after the first couple of listens but something made us listen to it again until we got past the obvious ‘sounds like Interpol …
Pete Doherty apparently turned up at the XFM Winter Wonderland last night and by all accounts, the word ‘shambles’ was entirely appropriate. If you’d rather not feel like an ambulance-chaser when watching a band on stage, try this lot: Monday 6th Londonist favourites The Pipettes …
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