The future is still what it used to be. Vangelis' music for Ridley Scott's portentous 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner is often held up as an example of an original score that was in perfect harmony with the director's vision. Tonight it's taken apart and reassembled - well, pretty much the same as before. As part of Massive Attack's predictably eclectic Meltdown strand at the Royal Festival Hall, this performance of the soundtrack by......

With their Ether 08 festival still in full swing, Southbank Centre didn't take even a moment to rest this past weekend when they announced the line-up details for this year's Meltdown. Curated by Massive Attack, the 15th instalment of Meltdown will pack an incredible amount of talks, films and gigs into the eight short days from 14 - 22 June. Fans of the bassbin Bristolians will have an excellent opportunity to explore the band's......

Massive Attack to curate Meltdown London flood resilience to be tested East London super-church for KICC turned down Bloomsbury insider archive goes on display at the British Library Camden Market reopens in time for the weekend - London urged to rally round traders Image courtesy of Orhan via the Londonist flickr group.......

The big release for this week has to be Radiohead's two dates at Hammersmith, which go on sale tomorrow from 9am. A chance to hear new material, and a welcome return for a band who've become a considerably entertaining live force of late, whilst undertaking an ever more perplexing attitude to their studio work. It's going to be fastest fingers first, since a fanclub presale brought their own, generally well regarded, site down. Not......

With a huge Glastonbury shaped hole in the calendar this year and the faint promise of warm weather lingering on the horizon, it's time for Festival Season to slip into Wacky Races mode. With T In The Park and V 2006 neck and neck out in front, and Download and Monsters of Rock, rapidly rolling out the big guns (Guns 'n' Roses at Download anyone?) in second place, the others are trailing far behind.......

It's been a good year for guitar pop bands and a good year for the folk and anti-folk scenes. So how did the Londonist music dungeon find itself rediscovering the joys of good heavy thrashing noise somewhere between Maximo Park and Sufjan Stevens? No idea, but it's been fun being pumelled by the likes of TODD, Part Chimp, Motorhead and Dinosaur Jr this year. One band we haven't managed to catch up with yet......

The big wheel keeps on turning On a simple line day by day The earth spins on its axis One man struggle to write the Midweek Music News introduction while working out his taxes So wrote Massive Attack about the struggle to keep up Londonist duties while pressing matters involving HMRC are at hand. HMRC wait for no man, however, so without further ado, here's your Midweek Music News. Tonight NME tipped electro boy......

It's not very often we have anything nice to say about Five, in fact we tend to give them a damn good kicking, but for once they've done something right in bringing an American television show to our screens. Tomorrow night sees the first episode of House - Not the catchiest of titles to be sure, it's no CSI: Scunthorpe or Hey look! That woman is wanking a pig - but trust us on......

Two pictures of Jesus in one day? You can tell it's getting towards Christmas can't you. Admittedly this isn't something you'd send to your gran on a card for the festive season, not unless she's really up for rallying "against the commercialisation of Christmas" It's actually a festive piece of Banksy artwork, available at Santa's Ghetto, which bills itself as an "art concept store" (but don't let that put you off). The idea, is......