Before Russell Brand wound up Jordin 'not a slut' Sparks with his antics at the MTV Video Awards earlier in the week, he was most famous to Americans for appearing as a British Rock N Roller in break-up comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Out on DVD on Monday, the comedy has teamed up with us to offer two readers a pair of guestlist to next Saturday's Feeling Gloomy at Islington Academy. There you can share......

Philadelphia experimental indie stars Enon play the Luminaire on Monday night, with around 17 tickets left (at time of writing) on We Got Tickets. Support comes in the shape of Ill Ease, which features "Elizabeth Sharp playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker, car horn and anything else that rattles, buzzes, shakes or hums in a riff-o-matic racket" apparently. Should be good. Meanwhile over at 93 Feet East, Seattle singer-songwriter David Bazan plays his folk-rock. Tickets......

New Years Eve is a funny one. Some people think it's the best night ever, and those who don't are kind of forced into thinking maybe they should be thinking that and invariably end up having a rubbish night. But how about you just think about it as an excuse to go dancing - that's never a bad idea. Here's our favourite dancefloor happenings tomorrow night. If it's dance music you want, then absolutely......

Cult canadian star Feist is back in the UK playing a sold out date at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on Monday night. Now "1, 2, 3, 4" is all over an advert it might be tricky to find tix but we reckon the ever reliable XXX. Kill Hannah bring their Chicago rock to Kings College with I Was A Cub Scout and Saving Aimee supporting. Tickets are £7.50 and here and American R&B lothario......

It seems that half the country (and Londonist staff) is on holiday at the moment. Still, here's the best of what's on musically across the capital this week.Jazz singer-songwriter Norah Jones  is the highlight of Bank Holiday Monday night, playing with M. Ward at Hammersmith Apollo. Tickets are sold out, however be sure to check out scarlet mist and other providers. Meanwhile hardcore punk stars Bane play Underworld, with £10 tickets available either on the......

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......

As most major bands go into festival mode at the moment, London plays host to the best of the alternative bands from across the UK and worldwide. German classic rock your sort of thing? Then on Monday night get along to the Hammersmith Apollo, where Scorpions are playing their re-union tour (who isn’t doing a re-union tour these days?) Support comes from The Michael Schenker Group, and tickets are £35 each, still available from the......

Monday night sees Tom “Squarepusher” Jenkinson bring his experimental drum'n'bass with a heavy jazz fusion influence to Queen Elizabeth Hall in the Southbank Centre. Evan Parker supports, and this is sold out unfortunately, though be sure to check back for last minute availability or other sources. Lily Allen places her summer session at Somerset house, with support from Mark Ronson. Tickets are long gone, though Scarlet Mist may be useful for some. The Dykeenies bring......

Busy week across the capital as tours come to a close and album-preview shows take a hold. Interpol play a one off show on Monday night at the Astoria, with support coming from the wonderful Maccabees. As you can expect, this one’s been sold out since XFM announced it a few weeks ago. Bournemouth based Air Traffic play ULU, with Jacob Golden and The Sonic Hearts as supports. Tickets at £10 a pop are still......

Busy week for music as bands start to warm up for the massive festival known as Glastonbury next weekend. Monday night sees Pearl Jam grace Wembley Arena, with support coming more than ably from the brilliant Idlewild. Tickets are sold out; however as always check for a last minute allocation or Scarlet Mist for a fair deal. Doors are at 6pm. Everyone’s favourite Liverpudlians The Coral grace the Astoria as a warm up for Glastonbury,......

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 see Good Shoes at Morden Park bandstand? They're on at 2pm, and we previewed it earlier last week here. Later on Monday evening The Holloways play The Electric Ballroom......

Monday night sees Londonist favourite Mika return to the capital for a triumphant one night stand at Shepherds Bush Empire. Tickets are sold out, but some are available for face-value exchange on Scarlet Mist Tuesday sees Interpol, the New York doom-lovers goth out Camden’s Koko as they do a one off date in support of their forthcoming new album “Our Love To Admire”. Tickets are long gone, and hard to come by via other......

We've been invaded, albeit willingly, by Vikings recently. Ah, that sounds a bit filthy. What we're trying to say is that London-based fans of Viking metal have been particularly well catered for recently, what with Ensiferum the other week and with Amon Amarth last Wednesday at the Islington Academy. Actually, the AA gig was more of a double bill as far as this Londonista was concerned; with Finntroll providing support, for once the non-headline......

Well we didn't see this one coming: Bis are to play two gigs to celebrate 10 years since the release of New Transistor Heroes They might have only split three years ago, but we're quite excited about this, particularly as the younger half of the Londonist Music Dungeon only got into them last year. There's a date in Glasgow but for us Londoners, they play Islington Academy on April 7th and tickets are on......

Black Celebration is a yearly all dayer showcasing the Industrial Underground and giving all the goths who graduated from the scene to shopping in CyberDog and having nice careers in IT somewhere to go. Now it's reached its 7th or so year, which makes us feel a bit old for a start, we headed up to Islington Academy to turn what should be a sleepy Sunday into a day full of something quite different.......

Despite having their thunder stolen slightly by The Puppini Sisters (who are nothing like them), The Pipettes have come a long way since we first supported them back in 2004. Their 4th major release, Judy, is out today and sees them deliver their best video yet (click photo). Still, we can't help but wish Judy had been played by the girl who plays that nasty cow Clare in Hollyoaks. The girls play their biggest......

So what have we picked for you this week? Tonight: Indie shoegazers unite, you have nothing to lose but your memories as Ride's Mark Gardener promotes his new solo outing: Beautiful Ghosts. Televise and Model Morning These join the bill at the Luminaire. Elsewhere, quirky art-pop punkers The Victorian English Gentlemens Club play a free show at Catch 22 with Black Wire. Band onstage at 9.15 Saturday: Glam gutterpunks Lorca play Flook @ Nambucca,......

Another fine week of gigs, and for those of you still undecided about where to take your better half or go stalking on Tuesday, we have a couple of tickets to give away for the Anti Valentines Day Massacre. Read on McDuff. Tonight: Worth picking up a ticket or two (they're still available) for southern fried beardy rockers: My Morning Jacket, whose Z was one of last year's tripped out delights. Friday: Anyone who......

End of a Tuesday is almost mid week, and since there's been a flurry of activity within the Londonist Music inbox, always a sure sign that the music world is shaking off it's fluffy winter feathers and gearing up for another year of doing damage to our collective eardrums, we thought it was time to catch up with a few friends hanging around various stages over the next few days. It's a little late......

Since we down here in the dungeon are absolutely convinced that your New Year's resolutions are all going to be to see more live music in 2006 we've kindly decided to drop you a list of some of the shows we'd like to see you at (that you can at least still get tickets for): Electric Eel Shock - Underworld, Wednesday 1st February Dragonforce - Astoria, Friday 3rd February Kano - Astoria, Saturday 4th......

Time to line up a few recommendations for the gig going glitterati amongst you for the cold winter's days ahead. Tonight: If you're staying in then The Rakes, David Gray and the rather awesome The National are on Jools at 11.35. Saturday: nu metal is probablythe music critics all time favourit genre so expect to see a full turn out from the OMM and NME amongst others as nu metal pioneers Korn make a......

With all this book reading, tv viewing, lecture attending, film watching and Ken chasing, we at the Londonist towers have realised we've forgotten to do one vital thing. We've forgotten to dance! Upon this realisation we immediately rushed to the nearest Office and bought ourselves a pair of comfortable, yet stylish dancing shoes. We've just put them on and by heck we're going to use them. Ladies and Gentlemen of London, beware, the Londonistas are......

"We were Three Colours Red and we loved every fucking minute of it!" The first time we saw Three Colours Red they were opening an all dayer in some London field with KISS headlining. It was a memorable performance which is saying a lot when you still have flashbacks to Paul Stanley in facepaint, hovering above the crowd on wires while Ace Frehley shoots fireworks from his guitar... One way or another though the......

Well it's good to be back in the Londonist Music dungeon after the annual Pilton Pilgramage and staring at the crystal ball of RAWK !,,! to see whether there are any gigs of note on the horizon. And of course there are. First off we have mix'n'match music mashing maestro Mylo who's pulling a late one at the Brixton Academy on 5th November. Tickets on sale now. Also up for a late night is......

At the time of writing the grand folk of this fine island nation are still deciding which venerable party is going to be responsible for late running trains and broken tube lines so as you read this you could be weeping for joy or arranging your residents visa for Chad. But as my venerable Ma says: "it doesn't matter who you vote for because the government always gets in." So dry your eyes mate......

We didn't think that Eminem would want to be outdone by the likes of Destiny's Child, and we were right. After rumours of a Hyde Park gig were denied earlier this month, the chainsaw-wielding one has now anounced a 'secret London gig'. According to the NME Eminem "will appear at a Shady Records night at a secret location on Saturday". The venue is to be announced on Kiss FM on Friday with tickets going......