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 to see Late of the Pier on February 28th. We also previewed the forthcoming second iTunes festival, which starts this coming Thursday. Looking forward to this week however, Monday night......

Experimental hardcore stars The Locust play The Underworld on Monday night. Tickets are £12 each, and still available for box office collection. Emo favourites Circa Survive play the Barfly, though tickets are long gone. The Ravonettes play Bush Hall for a sold out show, former Japan frontman David Sylvian plays Royal Festival Hall, with a smattering of tickets available at £37.50 each. John Mayer plays the first of two sold out nights at the Royal......

Fancy a gig with a difference? Friday night's alright for fighting zombies, as zombiecore band Send More Paramedics are playing London tonight, and on the menu is braaaaaains, braaaaains and more braaaains. Somewhere between 'horrorcore' punk band the Misfits (as lead singer B'Hellmouth said:"the Misfits, they are the Godfathers of Horrorpunk, they invented it, we're just re-hashing what they did really. Apart from the fact that we're actually dead of course. That's the difference")......

As bands jump across the Atlantic to play this weekend's V Festival and next weekend's Reading and Leeds festivals London is treated to a wealth of bands that rarely play these shores. Here's a selection of the best. Monday night sees the amazing Rilo Kiley play the Carling Academy Islington – tickets sold out pretty quickly, but there are a few floating around on eBay etc for what is sure to be one of their......

Perhaps the unlucky date has frightened promoters, as there aren't many new gigs going on sale tomorrow. The White Stripes return on 2 November to play the O2 Arena. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. tomorrow from Ticketmaster or midnight tonight according to See Tickets. Rilo Kiley celebrates the release of their fourth album, "Under The Blacklight", with a night at the Carling Academy Islington on 20 August. Tickets go on sale at......

The deep forests of Finland: home to elk, trolls and many, many groups of friends who play metal together (metal bands account for 57% of Finland's GDP, true fact). It's a far cry from the rather less grim and frostbitten setting of Brixton, but the two came together on Friday when Finnish Viking folk metal band Ensiferum played at the Fridge. For the uninitiated, Viking folk metal does exactly what it says on the......

Another date for your diaries. Wednesday the 15th of March sees The Wonderstuff play the Carling Academy Islington: Suspended By Stars (released February 2006), is the brand new album from The Wonderstuff, which follows on from the band's 2004 release, Escape From Rubbish Island, their first studio album for eleven years. With 17 top 20 singles and 3 top 10 albums under their belt, Suspended By Stars, their most definitive album to date, coincides......