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We are very excited about this year’s Nationwide Mercury Music Prize nominations. Not only did we personally manage to guess 9 out of 12 correctly, but some Londonist favourites are nicely sitting in the mix with the unnervingly young Laura Marling, the mighty Elbow, dazzling …

XX Teens are the latest London band to succumb to our Listen Up! harassment. If you used to hang out at Art Rocker up in Islington you might have bumped into them when they were still known as Xerox Teens, but after narrowly avoiding a …

Love your pop music? We’ve got 2 pairs of tickets up for grabs for tonight’s Wonky Pop clubnight at Cargo in Shoreditch. Although Annie was due to headline, illness has forced her to pull out, but she’s replaced by the awesome London girl Ebony Bones. …

Tonight Amy Winehouse will be hosting her own clubnight ‘Snakehips at The Monarch’ on Chalk Farm Road. On Saturday night we spotted her chatting to the amazing DJ Bioux in the small room at Proud and now it seems the pair will be going head …

Why not check out weekly film club ‘Short and Sweet’? Held at AKA in Holborn from 6.45pm you can expect a mixture of short films and music videos put together by film loving Julia who hosts this weekly event. Recent work has been from a …

There aren’t many concept albums about the lives of rad 80s car designers. And there are even less that are the brainchild of a Welsh psychedelic bard and an American avant-garde hip-hop twiddler, and feature a podgy sex-obsessive on guest vocals. Which is one way …

Sophie Ellis Bextor and model Lily Cole will be the new faces of Rimmel so expect them telling us about ‘the London look’ all over TV this summer. There was a bomb scare this on Sunday at the big brother house in Elstree. A new …

The newsreader rather than the Poirot of the two Suchet brothers, John Suchet will be holding a talk at Waterstone’s Gower Street tonight from 6.30pm. In his role as the presenter of Classic FM’s Composer’s Notes, John will be discussing his new book ‘The Treasures …

If you’re into anything dancy you’d be hard pushed to find a better night out than at Fabric. Tonight in the floor quivering Room 1 Drop The Lime drops in from Brooklyn to play along side Switch & The Scratch Perverts while over in room …

If you’ve happily bounced around to Super Furry Animals hits over the last 15 years, you were probably a bit wowed by the sleek production of Neon Neon, a joint project between Gruff Rhys and eclectic bleepster Boom Bip. They’ll be popping up at Wireless …