We fell in love with Black Cab Sessions the moment we first heard of them. How could we not? Taking a drive around the best city in the world (okay, we're biased, yes) in a design classic with some of our favourite bands rockin' out in the back seat: it's exactly how we'd like to spend a lazy afternoon. Since we generally are unable to scrape together enough coins to even steal sideways glances......

This week saw Londonist Get Scientific when we previewed We Are Scientists playing Soho Revue Bar this Tuesday, get excited about Eurovision and get cosy with Portico Quartet. A busy week all in all! Looking ahead to this week however, we have Eels playing Royal Festival Hall on Monday night. They've invited the Queen too, so it could be an amusing evening. Austin, Tx stars Spoon play a sold out show at Scala and rising......

Meet Language. Based in East London (but not defined by it!), they've chosen their myspace category to be "melodramatic popular song", are obsessed with falafel, like dressing in black, have a song called "Theme for a Porno", record on Hornsey Road and were screwed out of a producer by Kate Nash. They're not bitter mind. We were going to tell you our favourite song but having just listened to them all again on myspace......

A slap on the wrist for Londonist - we're three days late in previewing this year's Oxjam music festival, and we haven't even got a "dog ate our homework" excuse to cover our blushes. Must try harder next time. So what is Oxjam? It's only the most fun you're ever likely to have raising money for charity. Throughout October, thousands of budding Michael Eavis's are promoting gigs and club nights across the country. Working......

It's New Years Eve and if like us you're very bad at making plans more than 12 hours in advance, you might be looking for something to do tonight. Equally if you were planning to go to The Truman Show in Shoreditch then you should probably know that it's been cancelled due to 'surprise' secret acts The Kooks pulling out due to illness. In any case here are our top tips: For the danceheads:......

We're not afraid to say it. We still really really like Lily Allen and Alright Still is up there in our albums of the year list. Yesterday instead of posting about how much she hates The Kooks (you go girl), she posted this message on her blog I am beside myself with worry because someone has stolen my dog Maggie May this morning. I am in Jamacia, while i am here Maggie has been......

If you didn't catch Primal Scream at The 100 Club last night (did you? how was it?) and you're still itching for some lovely, free music then these are the pick of instore gigs coming up over the next two weeks. You've got a bit of a choice on Monday between two great bands. Fopp Tottenham Court Road offer up the Mystery Jets celebrating the release of a reworked version of Diamonds in the......

First up, a little welcome. The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed the debut post yesterday by our new signing, Talia. Talia brings some much-needed pop nous to the Londonist Music Dungeon and will help to broaden the eclectic coverage we already give to music. She's also a big Pipettes fan so a long sentence in the dungeon is assured. Before we launch into the gigs update, here's Talia's update on the MOBOs: Little......

XFM have announced the line up for this year's Camden Crawl. If you're unfamilar with the concept, the general idea is coordinate a one day 'festival' whereby 40 bands play across nine different venues (In Camden obviously). The first band appear on stage at around 7pm and all the gigs finish around the 3am mark. So far XFM have announced the following bands: 10 Thousand Things Amusement Parks On Fire, Art Brut, The Black......