It's officially Spring and by Pisces it's lovely out there in the sunshine. Crocuses have been spotted in Highbury Fields so our biggest recommendation for expenditure light trips this week is get to the parks and into the gardens and witness the miracles of the changing seasons. If you're in need of more artificial stimulation, however, and are squirrelling all your spare cash into your ISA before the end of the tax year then......

One club event we've neglected to mention really (and we really should have) is the birth of the amazing Modular Weekly parties at Ditch in Shoreditch. Modular is the label home of some of our favourite electronic artists including The Presets, MSTRKFFT, Klaxons and Cut Copy, as well as looking after Jack Johnson & Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And when they put on a party, they rock it! Sure if you're not wearing skinny jeans,......

Try as we might most of our friends don't seem to appreciate the fact that we have Tuesdays off and might actually want to do something on Monday night. The fact that you'll only have 4 hours sleep really isn't a concern of ours, we just want to party... grumble grumble. If raving it up is your idea of Monday hell, then Craft Night at Notting Hill Arts Club provides a rather interesting alternative......

What's the skinny? This isn't so much an introduction to a new band, as the first time we've talked about them on Londonist. If you know your electroclash, you'll know Client. After all, they have been about since 2003. Client are Sarah Blackwood, Kate Holmes and Emily Mann - all familar names. Sarah was the vocalist in morose 90s band Dubstar, Kate is poptones boss Alan McGee's wife and Emily is a former contestant......

Down in the midst of the Londonist music dungeon we've got our fair share of ideas as to which bands are going to be high up in our last.fm chart at the end of 2007. That said, we've not afraid to see what other people are saying and steal their ideas. So when Poptones boss and all round legend Alan McGee told The Guardian that he thought uplifting pop group The Revelations were going......

If you can dare to drag yourself away from the Big Brother final tonight and aren’t whisking yourself away to V, then these are our top recommendations for this week. Friday Stylish Riots Weekender Part I :If you’ve ever been down to Notting Hill Arts Club on a Wednesday night, then you’ll be well aware of the YOYO boys. Now instead of trekking all the way down the Central Line, the hip hop party......

It all started with a wedding. Sitting at a table, comfortably shooting the breeze with complete strangers and you go and say something stupid about writing music stuff for this London blog. All of a sudden you're reminiscing about Radiohead gigs and defending accusations that The Smiths suck. Then you talk about this band someone knows from Leeds who had been building a reputation for great live shows over the past few years. A......

With four of our favourite new bands in town this week, it is a grand time to be heading out and checking out some live music. Friday: Until we get our own band together, Fuckshovel remain the best named band in Britain. And other places. We'll be bringing you more from the 'shovel next month but in the meantime come on down to The Peel in Kingston for about 7.30 for a couple of......

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......

Re-reading this before putting it live, we're struck by how many very fine gigs and events there are on this week (as well as how bad our spelling is) and that's just the ones we know about. Promise us you'll go to at least one of them. We're sure you'll have a good time. Tonight: LA singer / songwriter, and one half of folk duo the Les Shelleys, Angela Correa will be at the......

If you're looking for something a bit different to do tonight, then get yourself along to the Notting Hill Arts Club for the curiously-capitalised yOyO club. The night starts early at 6pm, closes at 2am, and entry is free before 8pm, then £5 if you donate a record on the door or £8 otherwise. Further details are available by clicking the link. If you're thinking about what do on Saturday night, then FROG is......

The shock of being back at work after the torpor of the Christmas holidays is a little bit like a cold that won't quite go away, you can't quite shift that nagging horrible feeling that's stopping you feeling 100 per cent. To blast away the last vestiges of evil, try these gigs: As usual we've only listed gigs where tickets are still available as far as we know. To get your gig or event listed......

The devastating news this week is that Vanilla Ice has had to cancel his gig with Wolfpac at the Electric Ballroom tomorrow night. To help you get over the blow here's a few other things which might just help fill the void. (We try not to list gigs when we know they're already sold out but if you think we should, please make use of the comments section.) Monday 29th Club:Hedonistic is a free band......