Seems like Monday was a good day for album launch shows. Whilst Londonista Dave was experiencing the fragile ether-eality of Goldfrapp in Union Chapel, we were in the slightly less salubrious surroundings of HMV Oxford Street, where a reed thin moustachioed man is hopping up and down preaching hell and damnation, or at least something about scissors and prolix, next to some guru-esque sixties serial killer lookalike who's doing strange things to strange things.......

It's officially Spring and by Pisces it's lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the changing seasons. If you're in need of more artificial stimulation, however, and are squirrelling all your spare cash into your ISA before the end of the tax year then......

Monday night sees mad Australians Architecture in Helsinki come to the capital to play Koko after a stop off at Bestival this weekend. Tickets are £12.50 each and still available for box office collection. Faithless play the first of two nights in the capital at Shepherds Bush before moving on to Brixton on Tuesday night, which is mostly sold out though there are some balcony seats left. KT Tunstall plays an instore at HMV on......

If you've not managed to get yourself any tickets to tonight's launch party for Justice at Mean Fiddler, then you'd probably like to know that the band are playing another free gig tonight. The dance duo will be performing at 6pm at HMV Oxford Street, and every fan in attendance will receive a Justice goodie bag, 10 of which will include tickets to the party later that night. As one of the hottest and......

We loved Maximo Park when they first appeared, we love them now, and we particularly love the fact that they once sang a bit of Billie Piper down the phone to us. Having checked them out at a small Scala gig two weeks ago, we've got no doubt that their new material is as good as the old. After creating an overnight queue of 1000 people wanting tickets in Argyll Street last week, they......

The excellent Raconteurs are to prolong their visit to London to play a free acoustic gig at HMV Oxford Street next Thursday at 1pm. There are no tickets on sale so it'll be a first come first served scramble for space to witness what should be quite a special show. Jack White and the boys play Brixton Academy tonight and tomorrow.......

If you didn't catch Primal Scream at The 100 Club last night (did you? how was it?) and you're still itching for some lovely, free music then these are the pick of instore gigs coming up over the next two weeks. You've got a bit of a choice on Monday between two great bands. Fopp Tottenham Court Road offer up the Mystery Jets celebrating the release of a reworked version of Diamonds in the......

This week One of our favourite London bands Boy Kill Boy release new single Civil Sin today, the third single to be taken from their debut album Civilian. To celebrate the band complete with their very straight hair and swoonworthy eyeliner will be performing at the new Fopp on Tottenham Court Road at 5.30pm on Tuesday Aug 1. Originally released last year on Fierce Panda, you can watch the new video online here which......

As ever, more marvellous instore gigs are happening this week And well, we couldn't let tonights pass really could we. After supporting The Pipettes since we first saw them way back in late 2004, there's somewhat of a collective smile going round the music dungeon today as debut album We Are The Pipettes hits the shops. And who ever could have predicted they'd be launching it in as big a place as HMV Oxford Street!......

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......

Ever since the music world fell over it's collective hysteria at the Pixies reunion tour, bands have been reforming faster than new bands are being discovered. Londonist feels that this is the music industry's equivalent of Hollywood's remake fever. But then again there have been a few good remakes and there may well be a few more good reunions. With another 3 recently announced, the question is - how many of these guys do......