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Time Out picks the best live music of the next three months, including Hot Chip, the London Jazz Festival and Kanye West
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Meet Nduka Obaigbena. He may be a virtual unknown in these parts but over in Africa, this Nigerian media mogul is the...
Guitar/vocal trio playing South American folk with Afro-Colombian rhythms, with Martha Acosta on vocals and Claudia Silva on sax and flute.
It was only ever a matter of time before the record-buying public caught up with the record-receiving-for-free...
Everybody loves their iPod. Until they break. Time Out has some handy repair tips
Trumpet-led gnarly new jazz band featuring Fraud sax monster James Allsopp, fusion guitarist Jez Franks, bassist Dave Mannigton and drummer Ben Reynolds.
Despite the digital revolution, Time Out sees signs of life among the capital‘s independent record stores
In danger of becoming a veteran of the indie label scene, Moshi Moshi celebrate ten years with just a few of the acts – both past and present – they've discovered. Headlining are existential, soulful electro-popsters Hot Chip, chatty,...
Formed from the ashes of late-'70s post-punk Scots The Freeze, Cindytalk are led by Gordon Sharp, who featured on This Mortal Coil's debut EP and was friends with 4AD boss Ivo Watts-Russell – who fell for Cindytalk's gloomy post-punk cum...
Powerful, Ella-style gospel- and soul-influenced singer Dalrymple has worked with the likes of the Jazz Warriors and Latin jazz pianist Alex Wilson. Yet she's most affectionately known for keeping this regular Sunday night jam running for eight...
F-ire collective founder/percussionist Barak Schmool leads his awesome percussison troupe in a riotous funky-fusion batucada to celebrate the launch of several new F-ire Label LPs. Fuelled by the incessant Brazilian beats there's a free dance...
Whether you‘re after a reconditioned Steinway or a brand new sitar, there‘s a shop in London to fulfil your needs
'Indie gospel' from LA's Secretly Canadian signings, whose free-ranging sound bursts with drama and ideas like a less string-bound Arcade Fire. Here plugging acclaimed second album 'A Certain Feeling'.
Veteran West Indian-born singer and Latin-jazz percussionist – a star of the London jazz scene since his time with Johnny Dankworth's band in the '50s. He's joined by hard-blowing tenorist Dave O'Higgins and trumpeter Steve Waterman for some...
Catch 22's attempt to re-instate world John Peel Day (the BBC, as they point out, seems rather to have lost interest) furnishes forth a suitably great bill headed up by the wonderful jangling and howlin' Texan blues of former Wig and Mule...
It's not only Kings Of Leon's chins that are clean cut these days...
Tenor sax-led, highly entertaining jazz, Afrobeat, ska and funk outfit.
Adventurous Milesian trumpeter (member of the ace 'Bitches Brew' -inspired band Dog Soup) here leads his new solo experimental jazz project.
It's the lad rock event of the Autumn as the Gallagher brothers and their troupe play two huge nights at the Wembley Arena in support of new album 'Dig Out Your Soul'. According to some, they've ripped off Sir Cliff Richards and called Keane shit...
Singer-songwriter set to support French experimental popster Camille headlines with electro supports, plus an indoor market, comedy and 'party games'.
While we drown in compilations that celebrate age-old African music (the neverending Ethiopiques series, the Nigeria...
Gary Crosby's young outfit – training ground for the likes of saxophonist Soweto Kinch and pianist Andrew McCormack – lead this long-running jam session.
It was only ever a matter of time before the record-buying public caught up with the record-receiving-for-free...
Time Out tries to get a word in edgeways when Ethan Fawn and Alice Glass talk action comics, obscure noise bands and...
Time Out enters the resolutely anti-hype, anti-bling and pro-massive bass world of dubstep
Former gum-chewing, garishly attired Noo Yoiker with the accent broader then the Hudson makes a timely visit to these shores, what with the likes of Ladyhawke and Lykki Li paying homage with their perky, decidedly '80s-toned electro pop. Here...
Led by Oxford-based guitarist/composer Pete Oxley, JPB are an all-acoustic ensemble exploring a mix of fiery improv and a compelling sense of folk-inspired melody thanks to Oxley's Metheny-esque compositions. Virtuoso violinist Christian Garrick...
Swedish nu-folkie of Argentinean parentage headlines, blending a love of alt.Americana and Bert Jansch's rootsy songcraft with his own Latino roots, as on his stunning debut album, 'Veneer' and the follow-up, 'In Our Nature'. Plus support in the...
Being hailed as the next big anything brings with it obvious pitfalls. In Richard Mason’s case, the problem was...
The biggest-selling black British artist returns; expect to hear his silky tones on a clutch of hits including 'Loverboy', 'When The Going Gets Tough' and 'Love Really Hurts Without You'. Apparently, OutKast, Warren G and the Ying Yang Twins are...
Time Out speaks to N-Dubz, a band recently lambasted for their 'gangsta' lyrics. But do the attacks say more about...
Funky blues from New Zealand guitarist and band.
The F-ire Collective’s DIY ethos, inspired by linchpin saxophonist Barak Schmool’s uncompromising...
While the vast majority of the media has been focused on the inexorable, Arturo Ui-style rise of Coldplay, former...
Passionate and intimate set from this loose-limbed collective, whose repertoire covers bebop, jazz standards, imaginative originals quirky re-workings of operatic arias and Django-infused material. Regular performers include Marcella Puppini,...
It's the lad rock event of the Autumn as the Gallagher brothers and their troupe play two huge nights at the Wembley Arena, in support of new album 'Dig Out Your Soul'. According to some, they've ripped off Sir Cliff Richards and called Keane...
Broken Family Band associates from Essex, the headliners combine Eastern European folk with American roots in a style they've dubbed 'Country & Eastern'. Plus languid acoustic folk from talented Irish vocalist Power-Ryce at the second in...
Acoustic troubadour.
Experimental percussionist and free improv veteran, Prévost, leads a workshop in the finer points of improvised music.
San Fran psych-folk garage rockers TQA in a double bill with London psych-country popstrels The See at this popular country folk night hosted by Alan Tyler. Plus short support sets from folk pop duo The Lorcas and Hollowbody.
Chances are, you already know whether or not you’re going to like this album. Not because you’re spookily...
Anglo-Hungarian songwriter leads this classy jazz and R&B vocal night, with high profile singing stars dropping by for the odd guest spot.
Klezmer jam session held every second Sunday of the month. All welcome.
In a city thrumming with culture you’d be forgiven for wondering whether the cultural strand to the long, long...
Are the Mobos too commercial or too niche? Are they guilty of honouring sexism, homophobia and gun crime? Is it fair...
Clarinet virtuoso Whiting joins the resident trio for some hard swinging standards.
Musicians welcome at this friendly session.
Time Out speaks to Micachu, one of London‘s most interesting songwriters
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