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......

A fairly quiet time for Londonist music, but this week saw us introduce you to The Wave Pictures on Thursday, catch indie up-and-comers Parka at the Borderline on Tuesday, and suggest you catch "J-Dilla changed my life" at Cargo this evening. Throughout the week, NME favourites play their three week series of Awards shows, and this week sees Babyshambles play Brixton Academy on Monday night, Richard Hawley and Mercury nominated Maps play the Astoria on......

Whilst many, last night, were labouring under the somewhat unreasonable expectations that our national football side might do something a little old school, like win, there was a group of us who went home late with a collective smile on our faces. The aforementioned happy folks gathered at the 229 Club, at the far end of Great Portland Street. There we faced drums that go thuddity thuddity thuddity boom, guitars that go danga danga......

Hard-Fi have announced a massive UK tour of arenas throughout the land, including a night at Wembley Arena. They’ll be bringing their tales of urban hell to Wembley on Tuesday 18th December, with tickets on sale tomorrow morning at 9am. For those quick off the mark on their refresh buttons, Bloc Party play Camden Barfly (yes, you’ve heard me right – they’ve sold out two nights at Ally Pally but they’re doing a miniscule show)......

Londonist's favourite electro-punk outfit Robots in Disguise are headlining Club Eat Your Make Up this Thursday, a new club night which promises sleazy indie and electro-trash in abundance. If the name Robots in Disguise is new to you, then you may recognise them from their numerous cameo appearances in The Mighty Boosh, as The Electro Girls, and The Goth Girls. In fact, Noel Fielding himself is an occasional live-only band member. We've had a......

Londonist asks that most pressing of daily concerns: where to go on your lunch break. Benugo Throughout London Average Lunch Price: £5 Rating: 7.5 out of 10 Snoop around the Internet and you’ll find several references to sandwich shop Benugo’s free WiFi. For example, this post by Gavin Bell suggests that other cafés ‘should take the lead from Benugo and offer free WiFi like they offer free sugar’ because the ‘cost per month of......

News of incidents at Warren St, Oval and Shepherd's Bush, plus the no 26 bus in Hackney. No injuries reported but the tube network is down for the moment. Sky news: At Warren Street there were reports of a nail bomb explosion. Sky's Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said police believe this may have been the sound of detonators going off. Victoria Line train passenger Ivan McCracken told Sky News he spoke to an Italian man......

Just a quick reminder of tonight's Health & Happiness taking place at The Social, Great Portland Street, 7pm-midnight. Not only do you get Mr. David Viner on the decks and Currituck Co. playing a short set, The Eighteenth Day of May will be there to celebrate the release of their single which we'll be reviewing next week. Here's a hint: we wouldn't be telling you about them playing tonight again if we didn't think......

With Festival Season now truly underway and as Noisy Londonist prepares to bypass the ethical minefield that is going to Glastonbury we thought this week we'd cast an eye over a couple of our favourite gigs coming your way over the next few months. But first a few new dates we do have to mention. If the words: 2006, 3rd, April, Arena, Wembley, Mode and Depeche mean anything to you then click here now.......

These four-day (working) weeks are great but they do wreak havoc with the body clock. Still, we'd rather Friday crept up on us too quickly than too slowly. So, it's the weekend and you forgot to arrange anything to do. That's ok, we're here to help. Your first choice for Saturday is between Rock'n'Roll Soul at The Albany or FROG. Depends on whether you want a straightforward funky boogie night out or want to......

This Friday, 18th March, sees the inaugural session of The Breadcrumb Trail, a club night hosted by The Colonies. The Colonies are one of Londonist's favourite unsigned bands (click here to read the interview we published in January), and this is the perfect opportunity for you lot to find out why. Not only do you get to see this great band for a trifling £3 entry fee, but you also get to see John......

Londonist had a great time watching The Bees at Brixton Academy last night, although we stopped just short of doing our chicken impression during Chicken Payback. If you took our advice and got yourself to Brixton too, and you're in the mood for more funky dancing, Saturday night (5th March) sees Rock'n'Roll Soul host the launch party for Scorched Earth, "a new compilation of funky rock". Stuart Kirkham and Chas Chandler, who compiled the......