Brooklyn Vegan — The extended Wainwright family, plus Sufjan Stevens, Emmylou Harris, Joan as Police Woman and more, brought joy and good cheer to NYC on Sunday night. Continue reading… more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Siblings Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, their father Loudon Wainwright III, and other family and friends including Emmylou Harris, Sufjan Stevens, Sloan Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, Jenni Muldaur, Joan as Police Woman, and Lucy Wainwright Roc... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Bob Dylan first played NYC's Town Hall on April 12, 1963, and in celebration of that show's 55th anniversary and Bob Dylan's 77th birthday, there will be a Dylan tribute at Town Hall on May 24 titled "Tomorrow is a Long Time." Mark Koz... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Alela Diane's Cusp, Joan as Police Woman's Damned Devotion, Son Lux's Brighter Wounds, and Black Panther: The Album are the albums I have heard and can recommend this week. Reissues include remastered vinyl editions of three Ramones albums: their... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — September Girls' Cursing the Sea is an irressitable lo-fi, reverb-laden album, easily my favorite new music this week. Joan as Police Woman's The Classic and Dean Wareham's self-titled album are also new releases I can recommend. David Bowie's Rebel.... more info

The Telegraph — Exclusive: Joan as Police Woman premieres the video for Holy City on Telegraph.co.uk     more info

Here Comes The Flood — John Cale curated Life Along the Borderline: a Tribute to Nico live at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM Howard Gilman Opera House), New York, USA - January 16, 2013. Special guests: Nick Franglen (Lemon Jelly, Blacksand), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth... more info

Guardian Music — Mark Hollis's group started out as poppy hitmakers, then lost most of their audience as they invented a musical vocabulary of their own. Now a new tribute album is celebrating their legacy"You mention Talk Talk and people either go 'What, that 80s po... more info

Guardian Music — The Antony Hegarty-curated Meltdown festival begins this week. Here's a look ahead to some of the programme highlightsThis year's Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre in London is curated by the musician and visual artist Antony Hegarty. He firs... more info

Guardian Music — Joan Wasser on playing violin with Antony and the Johnsons, and the new songs she's writing for Meltdown What does Antony mean to you? I walked into an Antony and the Johnsons rehearsal in 1999 to cover for a violinist and I felt instantly at home. A... more info