Brooklyn Vegan — "We announce with great regret that tomorrow's (June 24) free performance by the Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club® featuring Omara Portuondo at Celebrate Brooklyn! has been CANCELLED because the group did not get visas in time for all musicians to..... more info

Reuters — HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba's Buena Vista Social Club will make its first appearance in the United States since 2003, with concerts this week in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles before heading off to Europe, a band spokesman said on Monday. more info

Guardian Music — Intimidating forms, biometrics, illegal immigration paranoia – Robin Denselow on why new visa rules might take Britain off the world music touring circuitIt was supposed to be a quick trip to relaunch the career of one of the most successful hip-h... more info

Guardian Music — Dan Auerbach's kept himself busy with solo work and hip-hop collaborating with drummer Patrick Carney in Blakroc, and soon the boys are back as The Black Keys, with their sixth album, Brothers, and a short tour (23 Jun-7 Jul, starting at the Roundhou... more info

Gigwise — The line up is announced... more info

Guardian Music — (World Village/Harmonia Mundi)Sierra Maestra are Cuba's great survivors. They started out back in the mid-1970s, when a group of engineering students at Havana University decided to form a band reviving Cuba's classic son styles, and since then they ... more info

Guardian Music — (World Circuit)When Ali Farka Touré died in 2006, his second Grammy award was being flown out to him in Mali by long-standing producer, Nick Gold. Touré had earned his first Grammy in 1994; this second accolade was for 2005's In the Heart of th... more info

Undercover, Australia — When Ry Cooder visited Cuba in the 1990`s he discovered a sound that had been around for most of the century in Havana and introduced it to the world. That was the sound of the Buena Vista Social Club. more info

This Scene Is Dead — Very much a top choice track for my Sunday afternoon in.  Originally coming to me via a class act compilation album that was made for me late last year (thanks again ALS), I then again passed on this lovely piece of music to my mother in the form ... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonThis impressive double bill featured a young celebrity from Cape Verde and the Cuban pianist who achieved the seemingly impossible when he successfully took over from Rubén González in the Buena Vista Social Club. The... more info