Lovvers at Stag and Dagger The inaugural Stag and Dagger took place last night around Shoreditch, bringing out artists, film makers, and tons of bands. Londonist took on the challenge of trying to determine just how much we could pack into a six hour space. We started our evening early at Black Rat Press to see, appropriately enough, the works of French street artist Blek le Rat (Londonist had the priveledge to see him in......

This week saw Londonist get incredibly excited about a few live music events. First up, was French pop sensation Yelle, who played an intimate show at the Old Blue Last. Then, we had the Camden Crawl line up which, as ever, is pretty amazing for those of us who value music over sleep. Finally, Sally got (understandably) excited about The King Blues @ the 100 Club. Once we've come down from our excitement of last......

Here at Londonist we love random foreign pop. Normally it's Scandanavian but French music also has a big place in our hearts. So we're excited to see that this week shouty French popstar Yelle is in town. She's supporting Mika tonight (Tuesday) but screw that - later on this evening she's playing her own gig at Great Eastern Street's Old Blue Last. Now we must warn you but a gig at the Old Blue......

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......

Some of our favourite Scandinavian bands are coming to the UK in the next couple of weeks and we thought you better know about them. First, the most mainstream, Robyn will play her first live dates since everyone woke up and realised she was actually amazing, at The Scala on Thursday. The gig is unsurprisingly sold out but there are tickets currently knocking about for face value on Scarlet Mist. The weekend is filled......

Whether you're already a veteran or you're yet to see any of the wonder that is Trapped in the Closet, we can't think of a single better way to recommend spending your Sunday than with a day filled with R Kelly and rap. Unlikely as it may sound R Kelly's musical opera has become something of a worldwide sensation and Londonist can heartily recommend it as a wide-eyed treat. DJ Patchwork Pirates are obviously......

Monday sees Portland, Oregon’s new indie-rock darlings The Thermals play Dingwalls with support from Siberia’s SonicFlyer. Tickets are still available from See Tickets at £8.50 each plus booking fees. Tellison play their “disarming melodies and big-hearted guitars” at the Camden Barfly, with support coming from Encyclopedia, The Xcerts and Gavin Osborn, with tickets only £6 each. Popular Canadian singer-songwriter Feist plays Scala on Tuesday night, though tickets are long gone unfortunately – Scarlet mist may......

As a wise man once said, "Bloody hell, it's Soft Cell!" Well, actually, it's not Soft Cell. It's just Marc Almond solo. And the man wasn't all that wise. It was Alan Partridge. Either way, though, Monday gives you a chance to see Marc Almond of Soft Cell at Shepherd's Bush Empire. It's his 50th birthday party, so buy him something nice. For those whose prefer sax to synth, septuagenarian free jazz legend Ornette Coleman......

There's a yard behindThe Old Blue Last, off Great Eastern Street, that frankly makes our eyes bleed. For anyone on the prowl for weird and wonderful street art (and it's not just us, right?), this is untouchable. Stenciler El Chivo provides the colourful backdrop, flytippers provide the furniture, and the Tate Britain should be providing a Turner Prize. Superb.......

Last night two secret gigs took place and we're feeling more than grumpy that we weren't there. For starters the Arctic Monkeys played a tiny secret gig at Shoreditch's Old Blue Last pub on Great Eastern Street. A warm up for their Canadian tour this was the first gig where new bassist Nick O'Malley performed as part of the band replacing original member Andy Nicholson who is missing from the tour due to fatigue......

Friday: Raucous angular noise makers The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club who are neither Victorian, nor English (they're Welsh), nor Gentlemen (two of the guys are girls), but apart from that the name fits, play the 333 Club (333 Old Street) with Performance. Sunday: If The Pipettes don't start returning our phone calls, we're going to have to start stalking Lucky Soul instead. Which means you may find a number of us low knuckled Londonistas......

Last Thursday, mod mecca Merc played host to Lucky Soul. It was to be a small intimate affair, to promote the launch of the band's very first single and, considering that there's been little hype about the band, the interest in the gig was impressive. So impressive that it was the biggest turn out ever for a gig at Merc, with those unlucky enough not to get into the store prepared to stand on......

Apparently the people at Vice magazine (you remember...we were talking about them only yesterday) have gone and bought themselves a pub. According to reports the magazine has managed to acquire The Old Blue Last on the corner of Great Eastern Street and Curtain road (and round the corner from the Vice offices obviously). So now that all the former-Seventies footballers are retiring from the pub trade, could this be the start of a new......