Okay, so we hold up our hands. Yesterday we completely forgot to do “Ticket Alerts”… and thus most of you will probably have your tickets when I tell you what gigs are on sale today. Foo Fighters have announced that they’re doing a two night stint at the O2 on Saturday and Sunday 17th and 18th November. There are now only seats left for either date unfortunately, at £32.50. Though keep your eyes peeled, more......

Monday sees Portland, Oregon’s new indie-rock darlings The Thermals play Dingwalls with support from Siberia’s SonicFlyer. Tickets are still available from See Tickets at £8.50 each plus booking fees. Tellison play their “disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars” at the Camden Barfly, with support coming from Encyclopedia, The Xcerts and Gavin Osborn, with tickets only £6 each. Popular Canadian singer-songwriter Feist plays Scala on Tuesday night, though tickets are long gone unfortunately – Scarlet mist may......

Adverts for horrors like Barbra Streisand's Guilty Pleasures are polluting the airwaves with increasing regularity now, so it's time to prepare ourselves for the terrors of music aimed at the non-discerning Christmas market. We've still got enough interesting releases to bring to you this week, though. It's a bit guitar-y this week. Shout Out Louds - Howl Howl Gaff Gaff Shout Out Louds are from Sweden, they play guitars, and they've just released an album......

Following their acclaimed reunion last year, the surviving founding members of one of rock’s most influential bands, the MC5, come together again, this time in a co-bill at the Royal Festival Hall on 25 February 2005, with sonic jazz phenomenon Sun Ra Arkestra (pictured above). Combining hard rock, R & B and avant-garde jazz, the MC5 are revered by generations of rockers, from Rage Against the Machine to The Hives to The White Stripes.......