The Cribs

This week’s new gigs include Canadians Crystal Castles, The Black Keys and more.

Time to dust off those wallets yet again for more amazing gigs

This week, Londonist caught two bands at either end of the musical scale – American metal stars Wolves in the Throne Room @ Underworld and the ever great Elbow at an intimate Porchester Hall show. We also started offering you the chance to win tickets …

Kick off the week tomorrow with Stephen Fretwell at Cadogen Hall (£15). The singer songwriter is touring his 3rd album “Man On The Roof” and by all accounts it’s pretty good. Or if you like your things with a bit more soul (or rubbish pop …

Another exciting week of music in the capital coming up, with us here to give you the best guide through what’s hot and what’s not in the indie / pop scenes this week. Want a lazy way to spend your Bank Holiday Monday? Why not …

As this week’s podcast of choice, our ears have been directed toward the 2nd podcast from London-based label Wichita Records. As this is a ‘cast directly from a record label, it holds the honour of being to include music. Hooray! Gill Mills, ex Radio 1 …

Every minute of receeding daylight heralds the approach of the end of the year list and the NME kicked things off in their paper issue today with their top 25 gigs of the year, as voted for by you, the reader. Well it says that …

With Halloween traditionally a time for some serious gig going spectaculars, this year’s a little bit of a damp squib, what with Marilyn Manson retiring from creeping folks out and concentrating on his new make up range and his Alma Mater, Alice Cooper, not yet …

The Cribs – The New Fellas Someone old, someone new, Londonist has a little question for you. What links Yorshire’s latest punksters The Cribs with Washington State’s psychadelic noisemongers The Screaming Trees? Answer, oddly enough they’ve both played with seminal pre grunge minimalists Beat Happening. …

XFM have announced the line up for this year’s Camden Crawl. If you’re unfamilar with the concept, the general idea is coordinate a one day ‘festival’ whereby 40 bands play across nine different venues (In Camden obviously). The first band appear on stage at around …