We know it's a short week, but why not start the weekend early by shaking your thang at Scala for a good cause? This Thursday, the annual Army of You evening hosted by War Child will be on in Kings Cross to raise awareness while you rock out. Buzz bands Does It Offend You, Yeah?, the Rumble Strips, and Kid Harpoon will all play live, plus DJ sets by Adventures Close to Home and......

It's been a strange ol' week for Londonist music-wise. On Monday we got worried about a rise in nightclub violence, on Tuesday caught Goldfrapp at Union Chapel, on Wednesday caught Nick Cave at HMV and on Thursday got excited about a new-ish club night at Three Blind Mice. Looking ahead to this week however, Monday sees Panic At the Disco and Kate Nash play sold out shows at the Roundhouse and Hammersmith Apollo respectively, whilst......

Only 5 months after Monday night institution Trash closed, it's time for another big name in London clubbing to close it's doors. This time - Frog. Having recently celebrated it's 3rd birthday, Frog has spent each Saturday night bashing out indie and rock & roll to the masses. It's main draw however is the live bands they present each week. Over the years, they've grabbed the biggest names just as they're on the brink......

Every year the Londonist team hits Camden for one mad night of dashing from venue to venue necking pints for Camden Crawl. This year, in all their money-spinning wisdom, the crawl has been expanded to two nights. We're not quite sure how much this is going to work (and with tickets at £26 a day, makes it a much more expensive proposition) but we'll no doubt give it ago. Today the first line-up has......

You know when you have to go to a conference or exhibition with work and it's so boring that you can't even remember what you saw during the day? If you're lucky, the conference is an overnighter with a party or two thrown in as compensation for wasting precious hours of your life listening to some management drone read something off a load of PowerPoint slides in between showing you some indecipherable graphs and......