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Slayer

Impenetrable wall-of-noise thrash histrionics from the ever popular Slayer, tonight …

Impenetrable wall-of-noise thrash histrionics from the ever popular Slayer, tonight playing the first of two rescheduled dates in support of last year’s eleventh album ‘World Painted Blood’.

CYCLE EAST: Sweet Billy Pilgrim

Charmingly off-kilter Mercury Prize-nominated London-based electro-folk trio SBP – …

Charmingly off-kilter Mercury Prize-nominated London-based electro-folk trio SBP – comprised of Anthony Bishop, Tim Elsenburg, Alistair Hamer -play their lovely shimmering, fragile Wilco-style songs that build from…

Portico Quartet + Krystle Warren

Our fave post-jazz band have come a long way …

Our fave post-jazz band have come a long way since their South Bank busking days to playing big festival stages and now this: their first headline show at the Barbican. It’s good timing too, as their accessible sax-led…

The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Brooklyn collective bring their justly acclaimed psych-rock-cum-cosmic-disco …

Brooklyn collective bring their justly acclaimed psych-rock-cum-cosmic-disco party to this tiny sweatbox for what promises to be a hipster-stuffed event. Don’t even think of turning up late.

The Kissaway Trail

Dazzling, soaraway melodies from these widescreen dream-pop starlets, who hail from…

Dazzling, soaraway melodies from these widescreen dream-pop starlets, who hail from Denmark and suggest Arcade Fire joining Sigur Rós and Pixies; here playing from latest album, ‘Sleep Mountain’.

Nitin Sawhney/LSO: ‘Yogoto No Yume’

Polymath jazz pianist/flamenco guitarist/tabla player/soundtrack writer/ orchestral …

Polymath jazz pianist/flamenco guitarist/tabla player/soundtrack writer/ orchestral composer Sawhney joins London Symphony Orchestra in performing his new score to 1933 silent Japanese film ‘Nightly Dreams’, while the film…