Big Stereo — Baby Monster – “Ultra Violence and Beethoven” live in Berlin Big news, Baby Monster has just been confirmed for four dates supporting the Klaxons!.. remember them? Obviously super psyched about this news. Grab a sneak peek of their live show f... more info

The Telegraph — Steven Osborne (piano). Rating: * * * * * more info

Totally Fuzzy — arthurfromholland said... Neil Young,s Decade (Chronicling the years 1966-1976,Decade details every period of Young,s meteoric musical career with his own selection of material) is Album of the week! and it was Neil Young week on Arthur,s Musical J... more info

Guardian Music — From Bach to Birtwistle, Fiona Maddocks selects the best of this year's Proms10 festival blockbusters Prom 1 Fri 16 JulyMahler Symphony No 8, BBC Symphony Orchestra/Belohlávek & choirs. Known as the Symphony of a Thousand, Mahler's stonking master... more info

Guardian Music — Pink Floyd have inspired a renaissance in lo-fi electronicaIn the middle of the noughties, there was an explosion in the online popularity of chiptune, the wonderfully evocative genre of electronic music based on the plinky, synthetic soundtracks of ... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonComposers who also conduct often do so differently to their full-time counterparts. Their gestures are simpler – and frequently more useful to their players than the refined curlicue preferred by some career conductors. The com... more info

Guardian Music — A highlight of this year's Proms will be Paul Lewis's Beethoven Concerto cycle. The pianist tells Tom Service how he's preparing for this daunting task'I'll be especially nervous at the Proms," Paul Lewis tells me. I can understand why. The pianist w... more info

Guardian Music — The pianist talks to Tom Service about playing Beethoven at the Proms and performs an exclusive sneak previewTom ServiceElliot SmithBen Kape more info

Guardian Music — Quatuor Diotima(Naive)Admired by Beethoven and Schubert, George Onslow (1784-1853) has become that rare phenomenon, a composer who was internationally popular in his own lifetime and for a considerable time afterwards, yet who virtually vanished in t... more info

Buffalo News, New York — The celebrated Takacs Quartet's current touring schedule shows three available programs, each featuring one of Schumann's three quartets and one of Beethoven's three “Razumovsky” quartets. more info