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New music to try this week: the bound-to-be-beautiful performance by local indie band Painting of Ships, playing at The Dublin Castle on Tuesday at 8pm. We discovered them at a quaint little house party where Christmas lights were strung and meringues were made and instantaneously …

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 …

The brilliant Graham Coxon on the video screens at Hyde Park / image by Lindsey Clarke Oh my. It’s like being 16 again. Alex is shaking his fringe, Damon’s doing the ‘walking geezer’ dance in his Fred Perry shirt, Dave is… well, Dave’s drumming isn’t …

With the exception of Kylie, Australia is not a country we generally associate with great pop music. However, recently they’ve been providing us with some brilliant new acts, and several, including The Veronicas and Daniel Merriweather, have done very well in the UK. The latest …

Baltimore-based Dan Deacon and his roving band of crazies hit Londontown this Friday, and boy, are we ever excited! It’s not even that we’re bonkers about his well-executed brand of hyper-spasm melodic chaos, it’s just that the man’s manic charisma is as tantalizing as it …

We know dragging yourself on a Monday night is hard going, but if you’re one of those people who like to say ‘I saw her first’ or are just generally into your dreamy electro-pop Lights’ London gig should be your destination tonight. The Canadian pop …

Nina Persson looks happier now. Being lead singer with Sweden’s most successful pop export since ABBA® was evidently getting her down, and although the evaporation of mainstream interest in The Cardigans coincided with them putting out increasingly amazing albums, it was clear she wanted out. …

From aurelien’s Flickrstream under a Creative Commons Attribution licence Everything about this show suggests that it could be a little bit special. Announced only a week ago it sold out within six minutes and, with tickets changing hands outside for £150, the thought of seeing …

Photo by Ashley Gordon. “I’m a little bit suspicious of you,” Annie Clark, alias St. Vincent, sweetly deadpanned to the vigorously vocal crowd jammed into the Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen’s ad hoc performance space, a make-shift but cozy black box boasting no standard venue …

There was a wealth of young teenage girls queuing up for last night’s concert in Hammersmith which had us worried. Was Jason Mraz just another bubble gum pop sensation from across the Atlantic, or was there more to the avocado farmer that we had yet …