"There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When did you last see/hear one surrounded by hordes excited by the sounds? ...well we hadn't so we decided to do what we could to change that, to fill the parks once more (at least for a wee while every couple of weeks) with some talented people capable of carrying a tune or two."

"I Fight Dragons is Chicago's finest (and quite possibly only) NES-Rock band. They have very detailed delusions of grandeur, most of which include gross misuses of Nintendo products in combination with music in the Popular Rock genre."

Basecamp for bands. Nice idea, but pricing looks a bit skewiff.

Sounds dead handy. In beta. "Band Metrics helps musicians and bands analyze and measure the success of their music."

Good music and great example of self-promotion; the guy is everywhere without being annoying.

New band from Dave Pajo

Featuring ex members of Salad, The Boredoms and Swallow

Will be seeing them support Tortoise at the RFH. "Founded over 25 years ago by Mingiedi, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza" or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator)"

MDK's site

Busking at Columbia Road Flower Market this Sunday just gone.

Great line-up. Friday 22nd April at Jacks, SE1

Qualitydrumnbassaction: "Paradigm X is a misnomer given to Paradigm X by Paradigm X in order to obscure the identity of Paradigm X."

Qualitydrumnbassaction: "Paradigm X is a misnomer given to Paradigm X by Paradigm X in order to obscure the identity of Paradigm X."

"The website for London-based electronic musician Lestrade."

James' track played on Radio 1!

James' track played on Radio 1!

Features members of M83. Recommendation from a nice person on Audioscrobbler.

Heard on WXYC: "Machito played a huge role in the history of Latin jazz, for his bands of the 1940s were probably the first to achieve a fusion of powerful Afro-Cuban rhythms and jazz improvisation."

promoting "new music on all levels, for all abilities with all genres."

"High quality downloads of songs we just couldn´t fit onto our regular releases."

Cursor Miner playing Mark Moore's Electrogogo at Madame Jojo's next Thursday, Febuary 17th - a possibility if the bands after Overdrawn are terrible

Playing with Overdrawn next week at The Garage

Playing with Overdrawn next week at The Garage

Playing with Overdrawn next week at The Garage

Excellent gig from a few years back - new japanese weirdness. Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M were particularly good.

Silk screened band posters (via Cool Hunting)

Archived page in Wayback Machine

Clear Records: archived page in Wayback Machine

LJ Kruzer and Kone-R played with idwet's Tepr this weekend and rated him

Maximo Park on the Camden Crawl (also The Go! Team, Hot Chip, Sons & Daughters)

reinventing pop music through the spirit of European soap opera theme music

Excellent band, interesting site.