This Sunday, rap fans will pay their respect to late hip-hop producer J-Dilla at Cargo in Shoreditch. DJs including Shortee Blitz, Marc Mac and DJ Spin Doctor will be bumping favourites from Dilla's back catalogue in an event held to honour his life and legacy. Born James Yancey, and also known as Jay Dee, Dilla was the "producer's producer": feted by the likes of Kanye and Pharrell, he was one of the most influential......

Tonight start the week by going to see massive Swedish popstar Marit Bergman at Hoxton Bar & Grill. She's playing a one off UK gig in an attempt to get signed in the UK. (£6, here. Former Hefner frontman Darren Hayman teams up with fledgling band The Wave Pictures at The Luminaire (£8, here). Plus the awesome Cold War Kids play Shepherd's Bush Empire. On Tuesday, German dance kids Digitalism are at the Scala......

There's another brilliant line-up at Fabric this weekend. While Annie Mac takes control of Friday's Fabric Live, Saturday is a blistering mix of techno, house and electro. Innervisions take control of Room 1. Formerly a sub-label of Jazzanova's Sonar Kollektiv, the label run clubnight Innercity in Berlin and offers a hand picked selection of producers a platform to celebrate the current renaissance for all things deep house. They'll be presenting duo Ame, German DJ......

Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) has to be one of our favourite arts venues in London. We have turned up on its rather grandiose steps several times now and had all our expectations blown away - in good and bad ways. Continuing its legacy of eternally forward-facing theatre, a new festival of experimental theatre and music is launching today. It's called Burst. And it didn't come about over night... First, there was The British Festival......

(click for trailer) The first film from Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong with Mac and PC in the lead roles and an all-British cast with the lovely Jessica Stevenson bringing up the rear. After the slightly disappointing "Hot Fuzz", could this be the British film of the year? We're told: Lifelong friends Harry and Karl (David Mitchell and Robert Webb) are the greatest magic double act in the country. But after a guillotine illusion......

More fatal gun crime: Officers were called to reports of a shooting in Scrubs Lane at 1615 GMT on Sunday afternoon. The victim, a 21-year-old man, was pronounced dead at the scene. A post-mortem examination is due to take place on Monday. In a separate incident a policer officer was shot in South London: The officer, from Southwark, was unhurt in the shooting in Beaton Close, Peckham, in the early hours of Sunday. No-one......

Windows Vista was launched in the UK today and Bill Gates was on hand to put the operating system through its paces at the British Library Full press release here, but this was the part that caught our eye: Bill Gates and Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive of the British Library, also announced the digital reunification of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks. The two notebooks, known as the Codices, are owned by the British Library (Codex......

A man has escaped from Wormwood Scrubs prison. Seen him? Alan Cumming married his boyfriend in London on Sunday. Want cheap theatre tickets? The Annual Get Into London Theatre campaign has started, It's the news every Mac geek have been looking forward to - Apple announced their iPhone this afternoon Photo taken from Gilgongo's photostream.......

If you've seen the cute and colourful video to Annie Mac favourite and Crazy Itch Radio highlight Take Me Back To Your House, then not only will you be rejoicing at the first Basement Jaxx video in a while to not include eye-avertingly massive breasts, but you'll have unbeknown to yourself, been introduced to the wonderful world of Dragonette. Dragonette sees said vocalist, Martina Sorbera, joined by three Canadian musicians to create sparkly, glamorous,......

If you've ever been anywhere in EC1 on a Friday or Saturday night then you're sure to have been asked a million times where Fabric is. Right opposite the back of Smithfield's Meat Market, the former meat cellar has been doing a stirling trade since it's conversion in 1999 and is proudly noted as one of the clubs to visit in well, the whole world. We've spent many a night shaking our ass down......

The Londonist Literary List appears every Tuesday. If you'd like to bring an event to our attention, please email londonistlit@gmail.com. Tonight Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award way back in 2003, discusses his writing and latest book A Spot of Bother. £8.50 at the Royal Festival Hall, 7:45 pm in the Purcell Room, find out more. Kevin McCloud......

Peckham Academy school and nearby Harris Girls' Academy in East Dulwich are to reopen this morning after threats of 'gang violence' last Friday meant they had to be evacuated. Escalating trouble between rival gangs in the area (the Ghetto Boys from Lewisham and the Peckham Boys) resulted in the stabbing of 29-year-old Jason Gayle-Bent in New Cross last Sunday. On Friday afternoon police were told that "one group would be lying in wait to......

You know when you hear a new band and you immediately love their songs. You wait and wait and finally you see them live and it's all ruined. Live they were absolutely rubbish. Well screw all that, because we finally saw Dead Disco live on Saturday night in Blackpool and they blew us away. Tight, professional and with one of the most impressive front people we've ever seen, we stomped around the dancefloor like......

Torontoist throws down the gauntlet and challenges all comers: pillow fight, bitch. They also stand up for a fellow blogger taking heat from the TTC and welcome city-wide WiFi. SFist can finally admit it: It's possible that Bary Bonds juiced. Is Bay Area artist (tempted to put quotes around that) Thomas Kinkaid "kinda crappy" or "explosively crappy" or does he just like marking territory? SFist wonders. Technology comes in the form of new Mac goodness......

Down in the Londonist music dungeon, rumours are beginning to trickle through about a new BBC3 music show coming to the East End. Its working title is "Guerrilla", and it'll be fronted by Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Annie Mac and Nihal. There's also talk of comedian Russell Kane making his TV debut as a co-presenter. Londonist did a little bit of digging and discovered it's going to be filmed in the old boiler room......

We have to say thank you to Londonist reader Martha who pointed us in the direction of London Review of Breakfasts.com a few weeks ago. Since then we've been monitoring this brekkie blog carefully and it's very good indeed. In fact it could be said to be a little 'too good' as out breakfasting standards have now shot up to ludicrous levels and we often find ourselves hankering for a fried egg at the......

The Royal Albert Hall will be swaying to a different kind of music today, as the twanging of broken racket strings, the thump of balls and the snapping of aged hamstrings will provide the soundtrack to the Masters Tennis Tournament. It is hoped that this orchestra will include the harmonious sound of one Mr J. McEnroe throwing his racket to the ground on a regular basis, but unfortunately this is a matter of some......

Unless you've boarded up the windows, stopped leaving the house, sealed your mailbox, kicked the tv in, unplugged the phone, dismantled the radio and used your Doc Martins to reboot your Mac/PC back to Scilicon Valley you'll probably have a slight inkling that it's going to be Christmas soon. In album release terms that means a Best Of for just about any band that's released more than one album and a few for some......

This week's big tech story surrounds a wearer of turtlenecks, stone washed jeans and white trainers. Not a member Status Quo luckily, but someone with a little less hair, yet with a lot more up there - at least when compared to the UKs most successful chart act. Apple computers' CEO Steve Jobs has invited a select number of the tech industry stalwarts to a special event entitled 'One More Thing' this coming Tuesday......

Here we go again then with London Fashion Week. Don't get us wrong, we have nothing against fashion (although it may have a few questions to ask us one day, but that's a different matter). It's just LFW brings up the same tired old debates every year. For example: fur. Yes, we've already had our first London Fashion Week Disrupted by Protestors headline, and things only kicked off yesterday. PETA members were escorted out......

Leicester Square tube station has been the victim of a "major branding takeover" by Apple who are hell-bent on making sure everyone is aware of the new youth targeted iPod Shuffle. Apple has created what they're calling the "iPod Zone" by purchasing pretty much every last piece of advertising at one of the major west end tube stops, and media critic for Ad Week magazine, Barbara Lippert, believes that this is "sort of like......

Apple will open its flagship UK store on Regent Street on 20 November. Steve Jobs made the announcement yesterday during the presentation of the new photo and U2 iPod models. At 10am on the morning of 20 November the store will open its doors, and Jobs and his team of "Mac Geniuses" are pulling out all the stops. There will be free T-shirts to the first 2,500 people through the doors; something they're caling "a......