Music

Artist of the Week : Yasmin

DJ turned popstar Yasmin is our artist of the week this week.

Live Music Review: Seefeel @ Kings Place

The obscure but much-admired electronica outfit launch their first album since 1996.

Review: The Irrepressibles @ The Barbican

Barbican’s Disruption: A Fashion Performance on Saturday night provided a mesmeric concoction of fashion, music and dance.

Music Choice: 31 January–6 February

Our pick of the week's gigs. Whether you miss specific bands, decades, or genres, it's a good week to have your nostalgic whims fulfilled.

Preview: The Horne Section With Alex Horne

Mixing jazz and comedy on a Monday night, Alex Horne hosts "unique and hilarious noises" at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue for 5 weeks.

Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale This Morning

If you've been too busy to pay attention to this week's London gig announcements, here's our guide to the top shows that go on sale this morning.

Live Music Preview: Seefeel @ Kings Place, N1

London electronica outfit Seefeel celebrate their first album in 15 years with a party at Kings Place on January 31st.

Artist of the Week : Talay Riley

East London's been quite the hot spot for emerging urban creative talent in the last couple of years and set to join the likes of Tinchy Stryder and Chipmunk within that scene comes Talay Riley.

Preview: English National Opera @ Coliseum, Jan – June 2011

Everything about English National Opera’s spring/summer season feels shiny and fresh. Six of its eight productions are new, although that is no reason to discount the two revivals. 

Review: Adele @ The Tabernacle

Music Choice: 24-30 January

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

Ticket Alert : Arcade Fire To Play Hyde Park

Arcade Fire announce a new London date at Hyde Park this June.

Rock Against The Cuts In Barnet: Help Save Artsdepot

Local musicians stage a benefit gig to protest against local council cuts and help save Artsdepot on Sunday 30 January.

Classic Album Sundays

A new way of listening to music is taking over the Hanbury Arms in Islington once a month.

Listen Up Interview: Banjo Or Freakout

Banjo or Freakout is Alessio Natalizia, a London-based Italian solo artist with an album of floaty electronic pop on the way and a buzz building steadily around him. If laidback guitar dreaminess is your cup of tea, watch for his album's release on 21 February.

Music Review: Kings Go Forth @ Jazz Cafe

Kings Go Forth blow away the January blues with a red-hot bill of funk at the Jazz Cafe.

Preview: Night Shift @ Queen Elizabeth Hall

If you still think classical music is stuffy, expensive and uninteresting, try Night Shift on Wednesday at Queen Elizabeth Hall for informal, "No-Rules" classical music.

Live Music Preview: The Go! Team

The Go! Team are back with a new single, album and a gig at Heaven next month.

Live Music Preview: Ghostpoet @ Electrowerkz

London based rapper Ghostpoet plays Electrowerkz next month and we recommend catching a future star early on.

Last.FM Announce Music Festival

Review: Saint Etienne @ The Forum

There is something particularly English - in fact, quintessentially London - about Saint Etienne. Performing what was, pretty much, a greatest hits packed set for their Christmas gig at the Kentish Town Forum on Saturday night, the band certainly looked and sounded like they were home.

Ticket Alert: Paul McCartney @ 100 Club

If booking big names was enough to save Oxford Street's 100 Club from closure, it would probably be getting a reprieve about now. Paul McCartney (yes, that Paul McCartney) has announced a gig next Friday at the 300 capacity venue.

Preview: Hot Tap Festive Fridays

Hot Tap Theatre, New Cross, get festive on the two Fridays left before Christmas.

Live Music Review: Dreadzone @ Scala

There are few sights more entertaining than a skanking 60-year-old.