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......

Kick off the week tomorrow with Stephen Fretwell at Cadogen Hall (£15). The singer songwriter is touring his 3rd album "Man On The Roof" and by all accounts it's pretty good. Or if you like your things with a bit more soul (or rubbish pop depending on your point of view) then the 'legend' that is Craig David begins the first of four dates at Ronnie Scott's (£25). The Mercury nominated one man dream-machine......

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......

As this week's podcast of choice, our ears have been directed toward the 2nd podcast from London-based label Wichita Records. As this is a 'cast directly from a record label, it holds the honour of being to include music. Hooray! Gill Mills, ex Radio 1 Scotland host, presents the show, with the entire thing produced by her iCast company. iCast have also done a podcast for the home of Mylo, Breastfed Recordings, so we'll......

Every minute of receeding daylight heralds the approach of the end of the year list and the NME kicked things off in their paper issue today with their top 25 gigs of the year, as voted for by you, the reader. Well it says that but with categories of Most Pissed (The Duke Spirit in Cheltenham), and Best Costumes (Circulus at the Tapestry Festival which as far as we can tell had only the......

With Halloween traditionally a time for some serious gig going spectaculars, this year's a little bit of a damp squib, what with Marilyn Manson retiring from creeping folks out and concentrating on his new make up range and his Alma Mater, Alice Cooper, not yet in town, it would seem as if we're going to have to keep the Slipknot masks in the drawer for another year. There are some big shows in town......

The Cribs - The New Fellas Someone old, someone new, Londonist has a little question for you. What links Yorshire's latest punksters The Cribs with Washington State's psychadelic noisemongers The Screaming Trees? Answer, oddly enough they've both played with seminal pre grunge minimalists Beat Happening. Well Calvin Johnson anyway. So how does this segue into the album review. Well quite nicely actually because if nothing else the production on this record, courtesy of Edwyn......

XFM have announced the line up for this year's Camden Crawl. If you're unfamilar with the concept, the general idea is coordinate a one day 'festival' whereby 40 bands play across nine different venues (In Camden obviously). The first band appear on stage at around 7pm and all the gigs finish around the 3am mark. So far XFM have announced the following bands: 10 Thousand Things Amusement Parks On Fire, Art Brut, The Black......