Norway's Hans-Peter Lindstrom takes to the stage (if you can call it that) in Rough Trade East looking unassumingly geeky in a checked shirt and a hat that covers most of his face. He is playing as part of the shop's heavily Converse-branded first birthday celebrations and might reasonably be miffed at the smallish crowd who braved the warm August rain to be here. Fortunately in customary trainspotter fashion they all signal their support......

Daisy Durham, her sister Kitty and her brother Lewis have been hanging around on the periphery of the big-time for a good while now. Resembling the imaginary love-children of Elvis and Greta Garbo, the inordinately talented, precocious teen trio were signed to the Sunday Best label in 2005. A million live shows later, the bands are finally poised to release their debut album, which promises to be a joyous jumping bean of a record,......

We are very excited about this year's Nationwide Mercury Music Prize nominations. Not only did we personally manage to guess 9 out of 12 correctly, but some Londonist favourites are nicely sitting in the mix with the unnervingly young Laura Marling, the mighty Elbow, dazzling jazz stars Portico Quartet and dubstep hero Burial all on the list. What we're really excited about is the inclusion of Neon Neon - Gruff Rhys and Boom Bip's......

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......

When bands get hyped beyond normality they can become pretty annoying, particularly if like New Young Pony Club you don't really have anything to back it up. The Ting Tings are the latest example of mega hypedom. From Salford, they formed previously hyped but failed band Dear Eskiimo before deciding to start afresh and sign with Columbia Records. Catch us on a Friday night and there's no doubt we'll be jumping about to 'Great......

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.......

One of our favourite UK bands, Sons & Daughters are back with a new album and tonight they'll be showing it off for free. To celebrate the release of their new single 'Darling', the Scottish indie stars will be performing and signing cds at Fopp on Shaftesbury Avenue. The performance starts at 6pm but it could be pretty crowded so get there a little bit early. But if you miss them this time round......