The only music star to be his only Cockney rhyming slang, James Blunt is playing Hammersmith Apollo on Monday night and also Tuesday night, though unsurprisingly tickets are all gone for now. Meanwhile, if you like something a bit more country-fied and American, then Texan Ryan Bingham plays the Borderline. Tickets are £12.50 from See Tickets. Tuesday sees The Kills grace the Soho Revue Bar, though tickets are sold out. New Indie-pop scenesters The Voom......

We already knew London was capital of the world, but 2007 has firmly cemented us as the best city by far musically. The Millennium Dome reopened as the O2 Arena, hosting not only 21 nights of Prince, the Rolling Stones, Take That, and the Spice Girls first UK dates for 10 years, but also the most anticipated gig for a good decade or so: Led Zeppelin’s reformation. Unfortunately this Londonista had to settle for some......

Nude pictures of Kate Moss are to be auctioned in London. But a word of advice, they'll cost you nearly £30,000 and remember, you don't get much Moss for your money. 203,000 have registered for Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium. That's 203,000 people willing to pay to hear James Blunt. Richard Fairgrass, lead singer of Right Said Fred, is running for London Mayor and we're going to vote for him. Image courtesy of......

We've been getting so excited writing foreign festival guides that we've completely neglected London's very own Wireless Festival. Happening between Wednesday and Sunday next week, the festival promises an ecletic line-up and various additional treats along the way. Top that with the fact that it's only in Hyde Park and surely we're onto a winner. Tickets are still on sale for £37.50 a day and gates open from 2pm each day. If accidentally catching......

It's been a good week for pissing off the neighbours. Firstly it was a couple of ickle pussy cats in Camberwell, now it's the thought of thousands of James Blunt fans roaming endlessly across London's green and pleasant spaces, high on spritzers and Sainsburys' bacon crunchies. Let's face it, London isn't Worthy Farm, probably looked a bit like it once, but isn't likely to do so again (unless TMFB has his way). So if......

Not a moment's hesitation in recommending The Eighteenth Day Of May's Bush Hall show on the 28th April as our buy of the week. If you need to ask why then there's gonna be tears and spilt milk at tea time. We give the Americans James Blunt, insipid ex-army bloke who makes Heat readers go week at the knees because he registers with the part of the brain that induces coma. They give us......

With a huge Glastonbury shaped hole in the calendar this year and the faint promise of warm weather lingering on the horizon, it's time for Festival Season to slip into Wacky Races mode. With T In The Park and V 2006 neck and neck out in front, and Download and Monsters of Rock, rapidly rolling out the big guns (Guns 'n' Roses at Download anyone?) in second place, the others are trailing far behind.......

Time once again to take a gander at a couple of shows coming up over the next seven days that have shone out from within the Londonist Music inbox. Most of the action this week is taking place in sold out venues across the capital with names such as James Blunt and The Magic Numbers re-invigorating the (qu)easy listening genre, whilst Kanye West continues to be the biggest name in hip hop since the......

Hmmm did we miss the heavenly firework display that covered the Earth's atmosphere a few weeks ago? Should we be worried even now that the shuffling noise coming from the corridor is not just Will dragging his sack of fan mail into the office, but actually a carnivorous plant intent on giving us a good tongue lashing? A Day of The Triffids style light show is the only way we can rationalise that David......

Entertainment titans Sony have been keeping buskers in payola as part of a marketing plan. We would normally be shocked and horrified by this revelation; however, if you think back to November of last year, we told you about the Johnny Cash tribute day when the buskers that grace London Underground were being paid to play Johnny Cash songs to mark a Greatest Hits release. Well, it's happening again, this time as part of......

Imagine the scene. The execs over at Capital Radio are sitting round an over-sized, elaborately ornate, possibly mahogany board-room table and they discover they've LOST thirteen million listening hours! Thirteen million? Now that's sloppy by anyone's standards. Still, chances are thirteen million listening hours are going to look pretty obvious hanging about on a street corner, so if you spot them could you give the guys at Capital a call please. The problem for......

We bet you didn't know that this year's Brit Awards are the 26th, unless of course you remembered that last year's were the 25th. Taking place at a venue that won't look at all like the soulless aircraft hanger that is Earl's Court when it's done on the 15th Feb, ITV will be screening the awards the following evening. This means that if you're all alone on Valentine's Night you'll be comforted by the......

If there's one thing we recommend you do today - over getting up, going to work, having a beer later, reading Londonist from cover to cover - it's that you buy Dandy Warhols tickets for their Hammmersmith Palais show on October 26, and not just because their site (see previous link) is in 3D. Of course our herb loving Bohemian-like-us friends may not be your cup of tea. But then again James Blunt may......

With ticket prices for gigs now regularly breaking the £20 mark (including that pesky booking fee) it's good to know that you can still get to see some of your favourite bands for mostly free courtesy of the resurgence of the instore performance/signing event. Most of the shows are free although for some of the bigger acts you'll need to pick up a wristband from the store that day and occasionally you will have......