Rock

This week is all about rock. Experimental rock, indie rock, pop rock, folk rock, electro rock; this is the week to rock out

This week’s pick of the music gigs around town. And it’s all rock, rock, rock.

Yes, those are bras hanging above the bar. Photography by Chris Osburn A dive by design without coming across as contrived, Aces & Eights has been open a few months offering Tufnell Park a low brow ensemble of “rock, liquor and pizza”. The “rock” is …

The paradoxical Frank Zappa (FZ), known as much for being orchestral composer, music producer, innovative film maker, hippy-hater and for giving his offspring bizarre names (Moon-Unit??) as the inimitable ‘out-there’ rock guitarist/singer, would have been 70 this year had prostrate cancer not got the better …

By Stephen*Iliffe via the Londonist Flickrpool On Saturday night Muse avoided black holes and proved a revelation as their cosmic tour de force confirmed their arrival amongst the masters of the stadium rock show. Three years ago they became the first group to tackle the …

Jimi Hendrix was once quoted as saying: “When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild, and freak out an’ do anything they wanna do.” Well, in celebration of Jimi’s life and music, that’s exactly what an eclectic bunch of up and …

And as the legend has it, a time will come when all will put down the cell-phones which burden them and the weapons that burden others, and pick up their Air Guitars together as one, and a new civilisation will be formed… We arrived just …

Self-professed Anti-Folk songsmith Adam Green acheived notoriety as one founding half of The Moldy Peaches alongside Kimya Dawson (despite his track ‘Tropically Island’ from Sixes and Sevens featuring on the ‘Folk and Proud’ album. Oh the bitter irony of the artist…). If nothing else, you’ll …

By Stephen Iliffe via the Londonist Flickrpool The O2 Arena was fully packed – just like Wembley back in 2007 – as Muse played their second night to a sell out crowd. The atmosphere was electrifying and the mass appeal of Muse was evident: teenagers …

What’s a little hyperbole between friends, eh? Seriously, this one off concert has a dead impressive line up. Check this: The Faces; Mick Hucknall; Level 42; Bill Wyman; Ronnie Wood; Kiki Dee; Andy Fairweather Low; Georgie Fame; AND Rick Wakeman. OK, so perhaps you aren’t …