Guardian Music — From echoes of Stockhausen in the Dirty Projectors to Arvo Pärt's effect on Radiohead, it's more than a bit of fun to think about the links between indie music and modern classicalBefore I'm away for a week, a belated catchup with a good post over... more info

Guardian Music — Stuart Skelton's Peter Grimes electrified audiences last year. Now he's back in London to bring another troubled soul to lifePeter Grimes is very much English National Opera's own opera. It was the work the company (in its previous guise, as Sadler's... more info

Pitchfork — St Vincent photo by Tod Seelie; David Byrne photo by Danny Clinch In his latest journal entry, which muses on the nature of collaboration, David Byrne revealed that he and St. Vincent's Annie Clark have been working on a project together. The "on ... more info

The Telegraph — David Alden's Katya Kabanova never suggests the cramping smallness of a village but cast and conducting are exceptionally good. Rating: * * * * more info

Pitchfork — Last night, MGMT played a secret show at downtown Manhattan's Mercury Lounge (capacity 250) under the name the Smirking Worm. (Via Sound of the City.) Along with the hits, they played a bunch of new tracks from their forthcoming LP, Congratulations, ... more info

Guardian Music — The city's most vibrant sounds are being made by a ragged breed of pan-generational improvisers producing free-jazz fire musicEven now, New York remains one of the spiritual homes of jazz. It's a reputation based on black and white images of cigarett... more info

MTV.com News — 'We don't know if our new album is crap or not,' Andrew Van Wyngarden says.By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rya Backer MGMT's Andrew Van Wyngarden Photo: MTV News MGMT didn't set out to make the stereotypical sophomore album, but, in... more info

Guardian Music — Taking folk to hilarious and extremely popular new heights, Flight Of The Conchords add two dates (8 May, Manchester Apollo; 25 May, Wembley Arena) to their sold-out tour (5-17 May, starting at Olympia, Dublin, livenation.co.uk) …Swedish psyche... more info

The Telegraph — A quarter-century at the ENO has seen director David Alden defeat the nay-sayers who dismissed his flamboyant early work. more info

Guardian Music — English National Opera briefly became the Italian National Opera when a late indisposition last week meant a stand-in had to perform in Italian for Donizetti's Elixir of Love – with the rest of the cast singing in English. According to Norman ... more info