When it comes to major American pop stars fetching up in our lovely city, Londonist sometimes thinks that the Eighties never ended. Following Madonna's permanent move here, and Prince's celebrated 21 shows last year, the third in the triumvirate of pop megastars from the Decade That Style Forgot is to join them - Michael Jackson is reportedly coming to town, and he'll be on a nice little earner if he does. Like Prince, Jackson......

The BT Digital Music Awards 2007 are being held on next Tuesday (2 October) at the Camden Roundhouse in London and we've got a pair of tickets for you to win to attend this special event. Artists such as Klaxons, Calvin Harris, Chemical Brothers and the Manics are all competing against to win one of 20 awards designed to recognise UK artists that have embraced digital technology in an exceptional way. The ceremony will......

Stereophonics' frontman, Kelly Jones, was in hospital yesterday with an injured arm following a "fracas" with a security guard at an aftershow party for the Vodafone Live Music Awards in town Wednesday night. We heard it went a bit like this: Security: Hurry up and...... wait! Stereophonic: I'm just looking... Security: Oooh, all handbags and gladrags are we eh? Stereophonic: Look boyoh, there's the bartender and the thief over there. Security: Don't step on my......

Lily Allen’s bouncy song "Smile" has obviously had no effect on the meanest people on the planet: US Immigration Officials. The pop star, aged 22, was detained at Los Angeles International Airport for five hours while questioned about the caution she received in June for an alleged assault she committed in London. The bad news is that her work visa was revoked. The good news is that she was not strip searched, nor did......

From the tallest skyscraper in the City of Brotherly Love to Canadian tourism copywriting brilliance, here's what you should know from our -ist cities: This week, Phillyist took a gleeful listen to the White Stripes' exciting new release, watched in awe as their new tallest skyscraper was finally completed, found a cheaper way to get to Gothamist, invented a tasty new dessert, and brought back their Craigslist Round-Up feature with a bang. Bostonist watches......

Victor Frankenstein was a tad taken aback when he realised exactly what is was that he had fashioned: How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care I had endeavoured to form? His limbs were in proportion, and I had selected his features as beautiful. Beautiful! -- Great God! His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his......

Lord Mayor, John Stuttard, is planning to make London a centre of business education and professional learning. After today's bus strike which no-one seemed to know about, tomorrow will see technical staff behind BBC News walking out of work. So, Al Jazeera have picked a good day to launch their English language service tomorrow with a plan to 'build a bridge between cultures.' Michael Jackson's in town ahead of tomorrow's World Music Awards and......

Martin Jefferson is set to 'perform' in London on November 15th. No no... no need to tag your children and send them off to the countryside. It's a music thing: Michael Jackson will perform "Thriller" from his famed 1982 album in a rare public appearance at the World Music Awards next week, organizers of the awards said Wednesday. The 48-year-old reclusive pop star will receive a Diamond Award, given to artists who sell more......

Heart warming animal story of the week: A dove that became extinct in the wild more than 30 years ago has been successfully bred at London Zoo. Planning on going to the 2012 Olympics? Then you will be expected to use public transport. Oh joy. Michael Jackson is coming to town to make a 'rare public appearance' next month for the World Music Awards. Looks like the Profumo affair may be turned into a......

Apologies for the lateness of this piece - I went to the BT Digital Music Awards on Tuesday night and consumed more than my fair share of free wine. But more about that later... Earlier on Tuesday found me wandering through the rainy streets of Fitzrovia, A-Z clutched tightly, on my way to a music video casting. I haven't been on many castings for a while because I've been a bit too busy playing gigs,......

The Diesel:U:Music Awards is back for a fifth year and the organisers are gearing up to choosing their finalists for 2006. Gigwise say "The Diesel-U-Music Awards - the biggest unsigned act competition around today will take place on October 4 at Shoreditch Town Hall, London. Concentrating on Rock, Urban/Hip Hop and Electronic artists/bands from all over the globe the awards have previously been won by the likes of Tom Vek and The Pistolas." We......

Before we get onto the subject of this week's telly recommendations, let's remind ourselves of Saturday's miscarriage of justice, when Maria was voted off X Factor. Even Simon admits he made a mistake in choosing the Conway Sisters (for those who don't watch X Factor, the Conways are like standing knee-deep in the Irish Sea on a wet Tuesday in October while someone slaps you in the face with a rotting plaice, except rather......

Remember The Face? Miss it? I do. The last person to edit it, can't remember his name, was a tw*t and made a complete mess of things. But before he botched it up and took the title down, The Face consistently provided me with a damned fine read. A lot of stuff in there went straight over my head, and the fashion shoots certainly did nothing for me. But the important thing was that......

Another week of gig going upon us and much to recommend so without further whatever here's the Londonist Music team's guide to what we think you should be doing for the next seven days. Wednesday: Well if you've not made plans for tonight yet you could head down to the Garage to check out San Fransican art pop punkers Deerhoof. Otherwise we suggest you kick off John Peel Day at the 12 Bar Club......