Guardian Music — With Brian Wilson on sparkling form, 'little surprises' in the Wishing Tree and Freddie Mercurys aplenty, Mark Beaumont brings you five things he did on Friday at Bestival 20111. Drink with the "little people"Past the maize mazes, the treetop walks, ... more info

Guardian Music — The Leipzig Gewandhaus descend on London for all nine Beethoven symphonies, ENO goes French baroque with Castor and Pollux, and Glasgow gets minimalChailly's Beethoven CycleRiccardo Chailly and Lepizig's Gewandhaus Orchestra hit London for a five-con... more info

ContactMusic — Mexican-born moviemaker Guillermo Del Toro refuses to return to his troubled homeland following the kidnapping of his father in 1998. The Pan's Labyrinth director fears he and his family will become targets for drug lords seeking ransom money if he g... more info

Guardian Music — A bike fest on the Belfast Waterfront, the Turner Prize exhibition at the Baltic, a film festival on Jersey and hip-hop at Sadler's Wells – here's our pick of cultural events in the coming monthsAUGUSTComedyCamden Fringe London With an eye for the ... more info

The Telegraph — NoFit State Circus' new show, comissioned to celebrate the Eden Project's tenth birthday, is saucy melange of tightrope walks and acrobatics amid Eden's biomes. Rating: * * * * more info

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Guardian Music — (Navigator) The folk scene has always been a home for singer-songwriters, so it's perhaps only to be expected that our best young traditional singers should also want to write their own material. Recent results have been mixed, though, from the exper... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Nuzz Prowlin' Wolf said... Hello good fuzzy folk. Here are few sounds for yer: THE LOVELESS - Original Film Soundtrack. COLBERT HAMILTON AND THE HELL-RAZORS - Colbert Hamilton and The Hell-Razors. Get ’em here: http://nuzzprowlinwolf.blogspot.com ... more info

ContactMusic — Duncan Jones was inspired to become a filmmaker after playing on the set of his dad David Bowie's movie 'Labyrinth'.The 39-year-old director admits he was fascinated by the elaborate staging for the 1986 children's fantasy adventure and believes it i... more info

Altsounds — *Kraddy* announced his 2011 Winter tour in promotion of his latest EP release, *Labyrinth*. Fresh off recent appearances with *Pretty Lights* and a sold-out CD release party that packed L.A.'s infamous *Low End Theory* nightclub to fire brigade leve... more info