Fed up of the froth, mirth and sentimentality of the Yuletide muzak yet? To bring you an antidote and alternative soundtrack for your Christmas holidays we caught up with the utterly charming Roi Robertson of Mechanical Cabaret over a sorbet and peppermint tea and ruminated on the band's latest single, pastoral London views and the fact that we've never seen him and Noel Fielding in the same room together... Who's in the band? I......

It's not everyday you come across a band with a name like Tits of Death, so it was about time we took 10 minutes with a band we'd formerly christened a ten-breasted rock machine. Playing Kinki at Madame Jo Jo's tomorrow night (Thursday), they've promised reduced guestlist to anyone emailing hello@titsofdeath.com with the subject line LONDONIST. Not only will you get to see this smokin' hot quintet but also electro-poppers Huski and the unbelievably......

Josh Rouse has gathered a small but devoted following over the course of six albums (plus an EP with kindred spirit Kurt Wagner of Lambchop), and the cabaret tables that surround the small stage at Madame Jo Jo’s are packed. He’s in town tonight for a low-key acoustic set to launch new album ‘Country Mouse, City House’. The attentive crowd quietens reverentially as Rouse opens with a handful of songs from the new album.......

Well we did as we said and went to see Shiny Toy Guns last night at Barfly. Now we take back everything we said about The Modern and Linken Park, and instead realise that STG fall much closer to Panic At The Disco territory. Yes, boys and girls, this is long, drawn out, hysterically over the top emo, but it just so happens to have whacking great dollops of pop in the middle of......

We like it when music's free. It means we can recommend stuff to you and you can't blame us for wasting money on tickets if you decide that they're rubbish. Having said that, if you find The Hoosier Complex rubbish, you're deaf. They are well worth checking out and for the skinflints amongst you, you've even got a chance to see them for free by getting yourself on the Gareth-Southgate-look-a-like-led band's guest list. You'll......

Christmas is a holiday of two halves. One half is sat in front of the telly, eating the leftover Quality Streets and playing Trivial Pursuit with your gran. The other half is regretful office parties, drinking all the spirits under the sink you wouldn't normally touch, and 'saucy' xmas presents (you didn't buy her edible panties again this year did you?) It's this latter half that Madame Jo Jo's are catering for tonight with......