Where's Gil Grissom when you need him? Before London gets their own version of the hot shot crime scene investigator TV series, the police will have to do. They've got a real nut to crack with the murder of 94-year-old Thea Zaudy. CCTV footage of the suspected murderers, including Mrs Zaudy's cleaner, show them carrying a large empty suitcase from Notting Hill station and later lugging the same suitcase, now full, back to the......

Our weekly roundup of film reviews returns, courtesy of James Bryan… After the giddy heights of last week’s reviews and the orgy of stars that it resulted in, normal service is resumed this week. We have cancer comedy The Bucket List, global action franchise to be Jumper, and a few others all reminding you that you should really be seeing last week’s releases instead. The Bucket List stars Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson as......

A sad week for LAist as they lose their trusted and amazing editor Tony Pierce to the LA Times, but what a blast his last week was. He shared his 25 Favorite CDs of 2007 and wrote a great review of just a good movie, No Country For Old Men. At UCLA, thousands of students celebrated the end of their quarter by running around campus in their undies (lots of photos in a two-part......

What's the skinny? Wolf & Cub are Joel Byrne, Adam Edwards, Thomas Mayhew and Joel Carey, four guys from Adelaide who make a big stompy rock noise. What have they done? Their website says: Wolf & Cub have shared stages with TV On The Radio, The Killers, The Music, Wolfmother, Queens of the Stone Age, Hot Hot Heat, Futureheads, and Death From Above 1979… played blistering sets nationwide on this years Big Day Out…......

Down in the midst of the Londonist music dungeon we've got our fair share of ideas as to which bands are going to be high up in our last.fm chart at the end of 2007. That said, we've not afraid to see what other people are saying and steal their ideas. So when Poptones boss and all round legend Alan McGee told The Guardian that he thought uplifting pop group The Revelations were going......

The Envy Corps hail from Iowa and are currently "flipping around Europe" on tour. They've the same management as The Killers and the ever handy myspace let us figure out that they even sounded pretty similar. With that in mind, we thought we'd give them a looksee when they graced the infamous White Heat clubnight at Madame Jojos with their stomping brand of post-indie/post-pop/post-rock. We're guessing it must be a bit frustrating to fly......

Last time we wrote about a list the NME had published, they tried to sue us. This time we're actually impressed by what they've written. Yes, it's time for that all important 'how cool am i today list' aka the NME 2006 Cool List. Instead of people like Pete Doherty and Alex Turner, who ruled the roost last year, this years list is surprising. It's topped by a woman: a woman who is not......

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.......

You know when you hear a new band and you immediately love their songs. You wait and wait and finally you see them live and it's all ruined. Live they were absolutely rubbish. Well screw all that, because we finally saw Dead Disco live on Saturday night in Blackpool and they blew us away. Tight, professional and with one of the most impressive front people we've ever seen, we stomped around the dancefloor like......

It's usually safe to say, that most of the new bands we talk to have rarely played to more than a few hundred people at a time, let alone the odd tens of thousands, but that's what happened to Reading's Morning Runner after they were asked to open for Coldplay on their outdoor arena tour last year. The story goes, that so impressed was Mr Martin with what he had heard of their debut......

As Ricky mentioned a few weeks ago in his introduction to the Demo Dungeon, we're not running the weekly Monday Music Review any more. But we do still get sent CDs from time to time and we thought, since someone has taken the trouble to post them to us, we'd take the trouble of having a listen and jotting down a few notes. We'll be doing this sometime around the beginning of each month......

- Police think that the killers of WPc Sharon Beshenivsky may be part of a gang responsible for robberies across London. - The Nigerian state governor charged with money laundering has skipped bail in London and escaped to his home state and "a triumphant welcome". - New German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be visiting London on Thursday as part of a European tour. - London hospitals are transferring patients to four star hotels because its......

- The former head of the Met, Lord Stevens, has called for the reinstatement of the death penalty for the killers of PC Sharon Beshenivsky: "Such an extreme act of pure evil can only be met by the most extreme of responses - and that can only be death." - Over the weekend one young man was stabbed to death in Leyton, while an 18 year old Asian man who was dragged off the 147......

The Dandy Warhols - Cargo, Tuesday 30th August If we'd released this today and not two and a half years ago there'd be a lot more assholes in here than there are. The cooler than cool Dandy Warhols have no time for the terminally cool, the wannabe coiffured scenesters and hangers on that you tend to get at small venue album release shows like this one; the Bohemians Like You they so wonderfully take......

As surely as A&R people follow a bandwagon, an album follows a remember-us-we're-back single. And so Doves follow up their relatively upbeat single Black and White Town with the album it comes from: Some Cities. Kitty Empire at The Observer is equivocal. She dismantles the misconceptions expressed by the likes of Londonist in the first paragraph that Doves are a dour bunch, leading one to think she's about to deliver a shining review. However, she......