If you've not headed off to a muddy field in Somerset but still want some live music this weekend, then fear not! There are plenty of muddy fields in London to enjoy instead. Twickenham is the place of action for Bon Jovi fans today and tomorrow, as the fists in the air band fill up the stadium for some almighty cheesy rocking out. We expect to hear Livin' On A Prayer well into West......

This week ended with the launch of the seventh and final Harry Potter installation. But while the world was consumed with Pottermania, it's important to remember that there were more serious things going on in the world, too – two of them in -Ist cities. Sampaist was shocked when a passenger jet crashed into the center of Sao Paulo, killing at least 200 people. The airplane, an Airbus A320, skidded off the runway at the......

Hooha over very expensive council corporate suite at the O2. But Bon Jovi christens it with "hair rock". Motorist hides gun between buttocks in Tooting. But local newspaper fails to spot 'Shooting craps' pun potential. At Wimbledon, if the rain doesn't get you, the snipers will. Madonna adds a sixth London home to her collection. Image courtesy of Chutney Bannister via the Londonist flickr group.......

What's that? More Eurovision, you say? OK, we're hyped up on sugary euro-ethno-pop so here we go! Rusza Magadi sings the Hungary entry, Unsubstantial Blues. It's what it says: a blues number about being dumped. With her repeated shrieks of "why did you leave me", we can think of at a few reasons.The brother of Estonia's Gerli Padar won Eurovision 5 years ago, but her pleasant, uptempo guitar-led number probably won't follow suit. Nice......

Bugger the football, the only thing the music kids here at Londonist are bothered about at Wembley is when it will be ready for gigs. Bon Jovi, Take That, and Robbie Williams were all shunted off to Milton Keynes Bowl when the stadium failed to open in time for their planned concerts over the summer, but now another band are staking a claim that they will be the first people to play at Wembley......

With Download, The Isle Of White Festival and Bon Jovi's Milton Keynes shows all coming this weekend, festival season is well and truly upon us. For agrophobics everywhere else, may we suggest the following for consideration. Tonight: Upbeat, uncynical quirky Brit punky pure pop from Circuits upstairs at the Garage alongside Popular Workshop and LR Rockets. £5 in, doors at 8. Tuesday: From those nice folks who bring you Rock'n'Roll Soul and Health and......

Bloody typical. The minute that we find something interesting about the new Wembley build and the powers that be are already trying to fix it: Power cables designed to carry up to 4,000 volts at the £757million stadium are being replaced after water leaks... An engineer at the North London site said yesterday: “If there was water in the power supply on match day there would have been a risk of a big explosion.”......

The money pit known as Wembley Stadium is now not due to open until 2007. Bon Jovi, Take That, Robbie Williams and the Rolling Stones have now been cast to the four winds - they'll probably relocate to Twickenham and erm Milton Keynes. Anyone who has tickets for those shows - your band and your stadium sucks. Little setbacks like blowing £757m on a glorified playground have not dampened our enthusiasm for the Olympics.......

The as yet unfinished Wembley Stadium has been under fire for most of it's embryonic life, at times literally and of late, figuratively. It has been confirmed that the stadium will not be ready in time for the FA Cup final which was to be Wembley's formal unveiling on 13 May, and a new date for the opening cannot be given by Australian building firm Multiplex. Losses have surpassed £75million and are creeping towards......

Since the tube map of music failed to give Heavy Metal it's own line, even though we Brits practically invented the bloody thing, we thought we'd redress the balance by concentrating this week on a couple of shows that will echo as much to the sound of creaking limbs as they do to that of screaming electric guitars. First off there's that contentious additional Bon Jovi date at what will by then be the......

Ken's plans for the Olympics and added police will, he promises, cost us no more than 65p a week. The number of speed cameras in London rose by 100 in the past year, and there'll probably be a similar increase this year. Looks like Gwyneth Paltrow might be leaving London for good. Shame. You're not going to believe this (or maybe you are) but Pete Doherty was arrested twice yesterday. He was pulled over in......

It's been a long time since a record has divided Londonist as much as One Way Ticket To Hell And Back, the latest from The Darkness. Perhaps it's because we're made up of so many spods and rockers that as soon as it appeared on My Space everyone wanted a say. What is it, Sunday already? So here we are at the kick off. Who wins? You decide. ‘One Way Ticket To Hell… And......

In a move away from the usual new Wembley Stadium sports and schedulestories we've been bringing you, here's one about the music. Even though the first band to headline the new stadium will be Bon Jovi, Robbie William had been hoping that his September gigs were to be the first of a British artist treading those hallowed boards. Of course it's possible they may have bought some new ones so they won't be that......

When we saw that Gothamist had a post up yesterday on a Wikipedia page listing all the songs about New York, we were initially filled with uncontrollable jealousy. Then we calmed down a bit and had a hunt round Wikipedia ourselves...and what do you know! Here's the exact same page but for songs about London. To paraphrase Homer Simpson: Mmmm, massive lists. It's a pretty extensive list but here's a few random ones that......

America are going crazy about them, but on this side of the pond we aren't too sure yet. Find out what all the hype is about as Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce a UK Tour. An art rock band not a million miles away from Talking Heads, you can catch the Clap at their November 22 London date at ULU here (TK) The Fugees play the Hammersmith Apollo on 14th December playing live......

Jimi Goodwin, bass slung low, hair halfway to Jon Bon Jovi, is complaining that the audience seem so far away. He means physically, they're separated by a camera track, but somehow this is a good analogy for tonight's Brixton show. It's not that Doves don't write beautiful musical landscapes, they do: soaring epics to match the images of the British countryside projected behind them, tainted with industrial grime. It's not that they don't have......