Guardian Music — Well, by extravaganza, we really just mean that guardian.co.uk/music was fortunate enough to have not one but two album exclusives this week. Tracey Thorn's Love and its Opposite is an album that beautifully captures the quiet crisis of middle age, w... more info

Guardian Music — New York artists announce Music for Dogs, a 'high-frequency concert' for canines with sounds designed for man's best friendAfter decades of making music that many people don't quite understand, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson have decided to forgo human... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — DFA will release a retrospective later this year of the work of New York-based composer Peter Gordon and his Love of Life Orchestra, which counted similarly-minded pioneers such as Laurie Anderson, Arthur Russell, and Rhys Chatham as sometime members... more info

Pitchfork — -- The cooler-than-you husband/wife team of Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson are curating the Vivid Live Festival, which comes to the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia May 27 - June 21. The program includes Reed's Metal Machine Trio and Anderson's ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Capt. Willard said... HARRY NILSSON - THE UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW (1978) First Time Online! A 32 year old interview with Harry Nilsson that's never been seen or heard... ANYWHERE. Harry talks about the death of Mama Cass Elliot in his London flat, talk... more info

Pop Candy — On June 22 the innovative and transfixing Laurie Anderson releases Homeland, her first record in a decade. She just launched a contest challenging fans to remix one of the tracks -- and the winner will have his/her version included on the album's iTu... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThere is a moonlit madness to Laurie Anderson's latest music-theatre piece. It might be taking place within the mind of an insomniac, who helplessly contemplates ancestry and the afterlife, Kierkegaard and Melville, politics and passw... more info

The Telegraph — There are undeniable pleasures to be had in Laurie Anderson's voyage into the unknown. Rating: * * * more info

All About Jazz — Forward-thinking trumpeter Cuong Vu has performed with the likes of Pat Metheny, Laurie Anderson and David Bowie. He's toured the world and released four albums under his own name. After a stint in New York, Vu moved back to the Northwest, where he i... more info

Guardian Music — Avant-garde composer's forthcoming LP to feature contributions from Four Tet, Antony Hegarty and Lou Reed. Presumably JLS were not available ...Laurie Anderson has announced her first studio album in a decade, featuring songs from her Homeland stage ... more info