Rock giants, Muse, have announced that the main support for the UK leg of their November European tour will be none other than electro, noise-pop darlings, The Big Pink.

Femme-fronted London four piece, Monocle Rose, wear their influences on their sleeves. Reminiscent of some of the best bands thrown up by the nineties: top form Elastica (if they’d invented the bass lines themselves) meets Comet Gain at their most serrated, Monocle Rose do back-street, post-punk to a tee. Regret fuelled tales of late nights, love and London set to stripped, garage guitars and lolling, post-punk bass, it’s enough to move the most bitter of indie hearts. ltd caught up with singer, Rosa, and guitarist, Richey…

ltd checks out the finest nights the city has to offer – from dance to glam to grime to just about any genre you can think of, so long as it gets us moving.

Welcome to ltd’s first Hard Rock edition (it’s probably difficult to tell, but I’m typing this while making the ‘devil’s horn’ sign).

The music that’s been bouncing around the ltd office lately…

To coincide with the release of their debut album Love Comes Close (out 2 November), US four-piece Cold Cave will embark on a 10-date tour of the British Isles.

Andy Macleod is a self-confessed ‘failed musician’: “I was in a band which didn’t work out so I crossed over to the other side,” he tells me. “Our claim to fame was being managed by Ricky Gervais.” That wasn’t actually their own claim to fame: Two members of the band went on to form The Lo Fidelity Allstars. Unperturbed, Macleod started up a club night and went on to team up with Fierce Panda, eventually promoting gigs by the likes of Coldplay, Doves and The Polyphonic Spree. These nights morphed into Club Fandango around eight years ago which today incorporates Label Fandango, an occasional magazine, and the three day in door festival, A Fistful Of Fandango, which took place last month at 229 The Venue in London. We caught up with Macleod at the height of the madness to get the inside information.

Subsource are ethical, wildly eclectic, chaotic and very, very noisy. What’s not to like? asks Charlotte Richardson Andrews

'straight-up, catchy indie pop'

'haunting vocal layers and ambient sounds,

Gliss may have been around for a while, but when we heard their soaringly ethereal new single, ‘Morning Light’, we were hooked all over again. A characteristic blend of muffled, shoegazey dream pop ravaged by steely guitars and just-rolled-outta-bed vocals; it’s like a soundtrack to that opium den they never told you about in the Garden Of Eden. Lush and hypnotic, Gliss’s November release (their UK album debut) promises to be a love-in of epic proportions. ltd caught up with Gliss main man, Martin Klingman to talk love, love, love baby…

Where better to kick off ltd ’s Hard Rock edition than with Wolfmother - a band with both feet rooted in the rich mulch of rock history, but with one eye on the future. And just look at that hair... We spoke to the Aussie’s frontman Andrew Stockdale

Five albums and a guaranteed place at hard rock’s top table haven’t got to Biffy Clyro. They might have cheered up a bit since the magnificently miserable Puzzle album, but they still live in one of Scotland’s least fashionable corners and have no plans to move to LA any time soon, as they tell Michael Wylie-Harris

Alberta Cross have come a long way in a very short time. Terry Wolfers tells Shain Shapiro about the cool professionalism of, erm, Oasis, and the steep learning curve travelled by his band

There’s no need to re-cap the 32 year history of Anvil here. After all, Sacha Gervasi’s movie about the Canadian metallers, Anvil! The Story Of Anvil, made it into “the number one rock documentary is UK box office history”, according drummer Robb Reiner. As a result Reiner and singer / guitarist Steve ‘Lips’ Kudlow became international symbols of a never-say-die tenacity triumphing in the face of the fickle music industry, and have seen their initially self-released thirteenth album (er, This Is Thirteen) become the subject of a major label bidding war. As 2009 draws to close the drummer tells Alison B that the fourteenth is already well on the way, and even infamous ‘lost’ track Thumb Hang is at last being aired.

After twenty years spent making albums that no-one could describe as easy listening, Therapy? have really pulled the stops out for their new one. Dubstep and Immanuel Kant, anybody? Neil Cooper talks to Alison B

Suicide Squeeze Records

Michael Schenker - Underworld, 16 September 2009Chrome Hoof - Barbican, 6 October 2009 Porcupine Tree - Hammersmith Apollo, 9 October 2009Opeth / Dream Theater - Wembley Arena, 10 October 2009

The Barbican 6 October 2009

Hammersmith Apollo 9 October 2009

Wembley Arena 10 October 2009

Wembley Arena 10 October 2009

DJ Yoda is following last year’s Magic Cinema Show with another visual extravaganza, the National Video Vacation. Charlotte Richardson Andrews gets to hold his clapperboard

Not winning the Mercury has not done Sweet Billy Pilgrim any harm at all. They’re still pale and unsociable and spend a lot of time hanging around in sheds

The humble punter’s – eye view of live London

ATO Records

Less Slipknot, more Deerhunter and a grown-up outlook have transported Tobi Kandi from Bono Must Die to his new band O. Children Michael Wylie-Harris mourns the loss of the greatest band name in pop