Prefix — Back in 2000 Dido skyrocketed in popularity after Eminem sampled her track "Thank You" on his hit song "Stan." Fast ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/news/listen-kendrick-lamar-featured-on-new-dido-song-le/72477/ more info

Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonOn what would have been the composer's 99th birthday, the Wigmore Hall launched a year-long Britten celebration with a concert by the ensemble named after him. But not with an evening of his music. Instead, the Britten Sinfonia pr... more info

Impose Magazine — So it seems that RCA, upon signing A$AP Rocky, added a stipulation that granted the label access to Clams Casino for production and validation purposes of future signed artists. Clams's signature sound is now the property of RCA and may be mass p... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonQueens, Heroines and Ladykillers is the eye-catching title for a series of concerts in the current Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment season that deal with the presentation of women in baroque and classical opera. Sarah ... more info

ContactMusic — Dido is working on a new album The 40-year-old singer - whose album No Angel sold 21 million copies worldwide - is back in the studio laying down tracks for her fourth record and set to collaborate with some big names A source told the Daily... more info

Guardian Music — They began the year hyped to the rafters and hungry for fame, but are Spector already resigned to failure?You could, if you were so minded, infer a lot from the title of Spector's debut album. The east London quintet began the year on the BBC Sound... more info

Guardian Music — Independent, idiosyncratic 25-year-old rapper from Compton who's been making waves in hip-hop circles and has just cooked up a recipe for the big-timeReading this on mobile? Click here to listenHometown: Compton, CA.The lineup: Kendrick Lamar (vocals... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonLess than two weeks after its Covent Garden run, the Royal Opera brought Berlioz's vast epic The Trojans to the Proms, leaving the mixed visuals of David McVicar's production behind. Stripped back to essentials, the result in... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last w... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonThough Scottish Opera brought the fine staging it shared with Opera North and Welsh National Opera to Covent Garden in 1990, it is 40 years since the Royal Opera itself gave a complete staged performance of Berlioz's Les Troy... more info