Guardian Music — I'd like a complete Mahler symphony cycle and the Albert Hall turned over to a three-day sonic experiment. How about you?It's almost that time of year again. Two weeks tomorrow, Roger Wright will announce his new Proms season, so there's a still a fe... more info

Guardian Music — (Soul Jazz)Growing up in 1970s Germany can't have been easy: your parents' generation were responsible for nazism. No surprise, then, that young musicians attempted to create music without a past, but they won't have expected their repetitive rhythms... more info

Guardian Music — English National Opera and Punchdrunk to perform The Duchess of Malfi over three floors of office blockIt is a case of the UK's most talked about experimental theatre group joining forces with one of its mightiest opera companies – and the res... more info

Guardian Music — It might be more than 30 years old, but krautrock, Germany's experimental music from the 1970s, still has a freshness that sixth-generation British indie bands can't matchIt began out of nothing, was given a joke name, and became the pop influence du... more info

Guardian Music — New documentary Until The Light Takes Us shows that, while pop was eating itself, Norway's black metal stars were busy burning churches and killing one another"It's like New Zealand … only grimmer." Darkthrone's Fenriz is attempting to explain ... more info

All About Jazz — By: Jeff Tobias Yes, it's true. History compresses (if not crushes) every passing moment by virtue of its eternal extrapolation. But that doesn't mean those moments didn't exist... or that they weren't special or that they can't continue to be. A fe... more info

All About Jazz — The production company Entertainment St. Louis has announced plans to stage a blues festival this summer in downtown St. Louis and also to take over and move an existing (but as yet unnamed) jazz festival to an unspecified downtown location.The River... more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Theater of the mind? A conception ahead of its time? An opera or a concert hall piece? more info

Guardian Music — Paul Morley on Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip, a pair of "novelty" rappers who join the dots between Mos Def and Ivor Biggun, Benny Hill and Benjamin Zephaniah "... nothing is more entertaining than fucking with words and their arrangement" – Sc... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — (Poster left Henry Owings, photo right Greg Cristman) We were honored to have Teutonic titans Faust headline the first night of WFMU Fest (which ran October 1-3 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg and also included the likes of TV... more info