New York Times — The actress, who won a Tony Award at 26, returns to Broadway at 41 with a new fierceness and maturity in “The Color Purple.” more info

Guardian Music — Milton Court concert hall, LondonThe pianist weaves magic on the edge of hearing with the help of an enthralled audience and two avant garde American composersPsychologists, with a name for everything, call it sedatephobia. Fear of silence. The compu... more info

Guardian Music — Steven Osborne(Hyperion)“I’m involved with all the 88 notes,” Morton Feldman once said of his piano music; “I have a big, big world there.” What’s so marvellous about the way Steven Osborne plays Feldman is how e... more info

Stereogum — Shigeto is the moniker of Michigan-based Zach Saginaw, whose bass-heavy electronic music contains metallic synths and undercurrents of dubstep. We’ve previously posted his remixes of Sufjan Stevens and Hundred Waters. The worlds between instrumenta... more info

Perez Hilton — Aww! This is so sad. There's so much animosity towards Zayn Malik from the Directioners at their Cardiff concert in the UK. During the break that normally happens at the One Direction show — and every concert, really — the band's perfume commerci... more info

Perez Hilton — Trey Songz is back, and he has a TON of new bedroom jamz to boot! On Sunday, Mr. Steal Your Girl surprised his Angels with the second release of his Intermission I & II project, featuring seven brand new tracks! But that's not all! Now, the R&B singe... more info

Perez Hilton — We thought food was only allowed in Broadway theaters during INTERMISSION, anyway! But, perhaps this was a special case? Audra McDonald, star of the Porgy and Bess broadway revival, was so infuriated by an audience member’s noisy chip-bag rustling... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Produced By Maleek Berry of Port Mayfair.. 1st single off Ikes’ latest project ‘The Intermission: Last Call’ due to be released Jan 30th.   more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Here’s the brand new video from IKES for his track ‘Tailormade’ ‘Tailormade’ is taken from IKES’s mixtape ‘The Intermission’, a collaboration with US DJ, Infamous, which was released late last year.   more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — Freeway spits over Niggas in Paris off his new mixtape “The Intermission” presented by Superstar Jay & DJ Love Dinero.   more info