Guardian Music — (Astarte)Kenny Wheeler's Nineteen Plus One album with Italy's Colours Orchestra last year woke me up to the emergence of Italian singer Diana Torto – a performer with the accuracy, tonal purity and improvisational flexibility of the UK's Norma... more info

Pop Crunch — John Mayer may be “quitting media” after his use of the N word in a Playboy interview hit the Net with a on Wednesday, but he hasn’t managed to stop people from talking about it. The ladies of The View had a Field Day — at Mayer’s expe... more info

Pop Crunch — Katie “Jordan” Price has really ticked Peter Andre off this time. The British glamour model has infuriated her former husband by dressing the couple’s two-year-old daughter up in makeup and then allowing a picture of her to be posted on Faceboo... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 02-25 Tokyo, Japan - Shibuya-AX 02-26 Osaka, Japan - Club Quattro 03-01 Brisbane, Australia - Convention Centre 03-02 Sydney, Australia - Hordern Pavilion 03-05 Melbourne, Australia - Festival Hall 03-06 Perth, Australia - Belvoir Amphitheatre 03-20 ... more info

Guardian Music — All the music news that's fit to link• MTV finally admit what everyone has known for years: there is no music on their station (Via Beatcrave)• Rihanna riding a mechanical bull at a New York nightclub. You know you're gonna watch (Via Celebuz... more info

BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat — The Grammy award winning Frenchmen will top the bill London's Field Day festival in July. more info

Pop Justice — Hold onto your hats: » Susan Boyle is living in one place and her pet cat is living in another. (Digital Spy) (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/news/a202235/boyle-living-apart-from-pet-cat-pebbles.html ) Amazingly, the cat is now living with ex... more info

Addict Music — This year's organisers have managed to bag Phoeinx as the headliners for the one day event. more info

DrownedInSound — London's one-day festival that is Field Day has unloaded the first batch of artists to grace its line-up for the year of the lord 2010, including most-excellent French electronic-rock combo Phoenix - who are the first headliners to be announced - an... more info

NME — Caribou and Beth Jeans Houghton also set to play London event more info