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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 15 April

R&B at the Albert Hall, a controversial rap superstar and heavy metal with a 38-piece orchestra. It can only be this week's ticket onsales.
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Independent Record Labels to Take Over Berwick Street

Still prefer to buy your music on vinyl or CD? Take a trip to the heart of Soho on May 21.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 8 April

See this week's eclectic onsales - including a banjo-toting film star and yet another farewell tour.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 1 April

This week's onsales include hobo-turned-blues-rocker Seasick Steve and Canada's greatest stadium rock export.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 25 March

Been wondering what happened to Razorlight? Us neither. But they're among this week's new gigs. See what else is booking now.
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Live Music Preview: Young Knives @ XOYO

With a taste for tweed and a great line in self-deprecating banter, it's hard to know how seriously to take Young Knives. Find out for yourself when the art-rock trio play XOYO on 6 April.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 18 March

This week's onsales include a rapper with some dubious rhymes and a last hurrah for some north London stalwarts.
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Live Music Preview: Bushstock Festival

A new festival with an indie-folk edge comes to Shepherd's Bush.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Friday 12 March

The bumper crop of gigs on sale this Friday includes the enigmatic-sounding Anna Calvi. See which other tickets you should be buying this week.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale This Morning

This week's onsales in a nutshell: one wardrobe malfunction, some South African rockers and an ex-Beatle.
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Live Music Preview: Camden Crawl 2011

It's like any other festival but the risk of mud is minimal, it happens in proper gig venues and you can sleep in your own bed.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale This Morning

There's one not-to-be-missed rock gig, and a bunch of other interesting concerts going onsale today. Read our round-up.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale This Morning

This week's on-sales include an ageing showbiz legend, reunited indie-punkers - and a bespectacled ex-tea-shop-owning vegan.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale This Morning

With a country music institution, an annual charity shindig at the Albert Hall, a spot of folky pop and some noisy rock, there's a gig on sale for everyone this morning.
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Live Music Review: The Go! Team @ Heaven

Two drum kits, a bonkers front woman and indecipherable lyrics. The Go! Team are back.
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Ticket Alert: Gigs on Sale Today

Scottish indie-pop, Seattle summeriness and the BBC's Sound of 2011 winner. See our roundup of gigs going on sale today.
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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.
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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.