All About Jazz — From "baroque folk" in '66 to show tunes, jazz and country in the '80s, the albums trace Collins' particularly eclectic musical development LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Collectors' Choice Music will reissue nine albums by Judy Collins, one of the great ... more info

Pitchfork — Photo by Drew Brown On May 25, Elektra releases True Blood: Music From the HBO Original Series Volume II, which means its time for rootsy artists to step up with their most backwoods-y/vampire-friendly tracks. The CD boasts new songs from Beck ("Bad ... more info

Guardian Music — Holland/Schuster/Wölfel/Frank/Frankfurt Opera/Stenz (Oehms)Detlev Glanert's Caligula, his fifth, full-length opera for adult audiences, was first staged in Frankfurt in 2006. It is based upon Albert Camus's 1945 play, which depicts the Roman emper... more info

AllHipHop — (AllHipHop News) Goodie M.O.B. member Cee Lo Green is currently in the recording studio working on an album of brand new material. Elektra confirmed the album is titled Lady Killer and will hit stores later this year. Cee-Lo, also one half of Grammy ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... Hard Time Killing Floor Blues – Skip James The Right To Be Italian – Holly & The Italians http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com Arbu said... Brenda Russell - Love Life (1981 A&M album) Carol Hall - Beads and... more info

Guardian Music — Combative label boss and manager of Frank Zappa and Tom WaitsHerb Cohen, who has died aged 77 of complications from cancer, did not elicit much affection from the artists he managed, but he played a pivotal role in shaping the music of the California... more info

Live Daily — One of last year's breakthrough artists at SXSW was the petite bombshell Victoria Hesketh, aka Little Boots [ tickets ]. The British pop dynamo is now celebrating the US release of her debut album "Hands," with a brief North American tour. The tr... more info

Detroit Free Press — Nope, says Carly Simon, her 1972 hit "You're So Vain" isn't about David Geffen, the billionaire who was then the head of her record label, Elektra. more info

Guardian Music — (Chandos, 2CDs)The jury is still out on James ­MacMillan's emotive 2007 opera, which controversially projects a tale from the Mabinogion on to a futuristic ­vision of Britain as a paramilitary tribal ­dystopia. Considered overwhelming by so... more info

All About Jazz — Michael Cuscuna is one of the most prolific record producers in jazz. His career has taken him from jazz radio to the deepest regions of some of the most fertile catalogues in recorded jazz history. He has produced records for the Atlantic, Motown, A... more info