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One of the best gig line ups of the year…and it’s free!

We last saw the marvellous Let’s Wrestle a year and a half ago at the Old Blue Last, when they cut through the pretension with their no-nonsense, furiously paced songs about playing computer games and being too scared to talk to girls. They were great …

Get ready for intelligent, sparky lyrics, quick-witted chitchat and unexpected time signatures. Liverpudlian pop-punkers Hot Club de Paris are coming to The Lexington on 9 February – and with so many ideas crammed into each song, you’ll have fun trying to predict which direction the …

Sunderland’s most notable art-rockers, The Futureheads, will bring their stop-start rhythms, layered vocals and uneven guitars to The Lexington on 14 December. About time too – it feels like ages since the creators of that inspired Kate Bush cover played a proper gig in the …

I don’t want to cry My whole life through I want to do some laughing too So come on, come on, come on and laugh with me goes the nonchalent heartbreak of a Girls refrain. A duo with help from ‘friends’, the long-haired Michael Bolton …

Photo by Amanda Farah. Camera Obscura were all apologies Monday night at the Lexington. They apologised that they hadn’t played in a while and were, in their words, ‘not so slick.’ They apologised that they hadn’t played in London for a long time. Frontwoman Tracyanne …

Photo by Amanda Farah Firstly, apologies to anyone who showed up early to see An Experiment On A Bird In The Airpump who apparently had to pull out at the last minute. While we always like to mention the London locals (even if they don’t …

Yesterday we were listening to The Rakes, thinking about what an awesome band they were, and wondering where they’d gone. Today we get an email telling us about album #3. Hooray! Named ‘Klang!’, Alan Donohoe and his beautifully coiffured crew recorded the album in Berlin …

He’s been pegged as THE one to watch, the man who has come to put an end to emo and ressurect indie from the depths of ennui. We don’t know about all that, but Jay Reatard writes some killer tunes. You’ve got two chances to …