MONDAY 28TH FEBRUARY
**ORGAN RECOMMENDS** LED BIB @ The Purcell Rooms, South Bank, 19.45, £10
'Launch party for the full-on no messing London progressive jazz band's excellent fifth album Bring Your Own. Driving proper real deal jazz with a hint of a space/prog undercurrent and a vital slice of friendly inviting accessibility. Cutting edge Jazz for right here and now, they rock!'
ARTMAGIC, LIZZIE PATTINSON, ANDREW BUTLER @ The Social, 19.00, £6adv
'Artmagic is Ex-Suede guitarist Richard Oakes and producer / vocalist Sean McGhee. Richard and Sean each bring their own set of influences to bear on their work, meshing Richard's taste for the jagged sound of post-punk with Sean's love of warm analogue synths and spectral, melancholy pop'
BARLIGHTS, THE SKELETON DEAD plus more @ Bull & Gate, 19.45, £5flyer £6door
COCKNBULLKID, SPARKADIA plus guests @ Barfly Camden, 19.30
'With first single 'Hold On To Your Misery' released a week after this gig expect this to be the smallest venue you see this astounding London based artist in for sometime. Collaborators on her upcoming record include Chilly Gonzalez, Peter (of Peter, Bjorn & John fame), Metronomy, Primary 1 and Mark Tieku.' (Barfly)
DEAFSCHOOL @ The Garage, 19.30
EMILY PORTMAN plus more @ The Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell, 19.30, £11adv £12door
EXLOVERS, PLANET EARTH, FUNERAL SUITS @ The Lexington, 19.00, £8adv
Exlovers "Reminiscent of Teenage Fanclub but with added girly bits, exlovers forge ahead with their infectious blend of ever-so sunny indie pop. Yet beware, melancholy lyrics lie beneath many of these glorious melodies. Bittersweet then, but as ever, brilliantly rendered" (The Fly)
IVIENNA, KELLI-LEIGH, LUKE RATHBORNE @ Monto Water Rats, Kings Cross, 19.30, £4adv £6door
JAMES JAY PICTON @ The Borderline, Soho, 19.30
LETLIVE, THE JAMES CLEAVER QUINTET, HEARTS UNDER FIRE @ Old Blue Last, 20.00, £3
LYKKE LI @ Rough Trade East in-store, 19.00, FREE
'Stockholm, Sweden's Lykke Li is set to release her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Wounded Rhymes, on her label LL Recordings on 28 February...The record is packed full of pounding, voodoo drums, girl group gang vocals, sparkling guitar lines, woozy keyboards, love unrequited, hope reignited and her own very powerful voice, sounding bigger and bolder than ever before.' (Rough Trade)
MARK MORRISS, THE ROACHES, MORNING LANE, SHACLEWELL ROW, THE POCKET GODS @ The Monarch, Camden, 19.30
MOLOTOV JUKEBOX, JANICE GRAHAM BAND @ CAMP basement, 19.30, £10adv
Charity fundraiser for CALM
NO JOY, YOUNG PRISMS, CELESTIAL BODIES @ Hoxton Sq Bar & Kitchen, 20.00, £6.50adv
No Joy 'The Montreal/L.A. duo of Laura Lloyd and Jasamine White-Gluz mention “doom” (along with “psychedelic” and “shoegazer”) on their Bandcamp page. Their debut full length 'Ghost Blonde' is a work of shoegaze perfection.'
PJ HARVEY @ The Troxy, 19.30
THE TAMBORINES, 2:54, THE FIRST LOVES @ The Drop, Stoke Newington, 19.30, £4adv £5door
'THE TAMBORINES West London-based Brazilian-born fuzz-pop trio play new songs with a slightly re-jigged line-up, following last year’s acclaimed debut ‘Camera & Tremor'
