Tonight: get into the Christmas spirit with Tom Smith and Andy Burrows, aka Smith and Burrows, and their seasonal tunes at Union Chapel.
Tuesday: Rob St John, Neil Pennycook of Mersault and Woodpecker Wooliams are at the Vortex.
Wednesday: Euros Childs — frontman of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci — is is solo and playing a piano set at the Vortex. The XFM Winter Wonderland brings the Kaiser Chiefs and the Horrors at Brixton Academy.
Thursday: Liverpool's Outfit are making their London debut at the Hoxton Bar and Kitchen.
Friday: Sam Brookes (the folk singer, not her from X-Factor) is at St Pancras Old Church.
Saturday: electro project D/R/U/G/S is at Brixton Electric. Mariachi El Bronx is at Kings College.
Sunday: garage rockers Black Lips are at Heaven. The first night of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People kicks off at the Bloomsbury Theatre with Darren Hayman.