Guardian Music — London Royal Festival HallPatti Smith regards the audience in the Royal Festival Hall with an affectionate, rather maternal smile and sighs. "In the true spirit of Ornette Coleman high-pressure Meltdown," she announces, "I'll be joined by many people... more info

Stereogum — Sonic Youth's 16th (quite satisfying) album The Eternal opens with the Yves Klein/Noise Nomads-referencing "Sacred Trickster," a track you may have seen performed live to Letterman. It's the briefest song on the album, a mix of art-rock elegance and ... more info

Guardian Music — He's taken jazz where it has never gone before - playing with pipers, punks and divas. As Ornette Coleman arrives in Britain, Patti Smith, Moby and others salute a great. By John LewisBorn in Texas 79 years ago, saxophonist Ornette Coleman came to t... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said...Dimitri from Paris - 2 albumsMissy ElliotJohn Coltrane - 5 albumsDave Brubeck - 5 albumsBootsy CollinsNils Petter Molvaer - 5 albumsAhmad Jahmal - 3 albumsLuiz Bonfa - 2 albumsManu Chao - 3 albumsOtis Reddinghttp://bestfbothworlds.bl... more info

Guardian Music — It's been nearly 30 years since Sonic Youth first blew the minds of music fans - and they're not flagging. The art-punk heroes talk to David Peschek'Bands are usually a young man's game," says Thurston Moore, the guitarist with Sonic Youth for nearly... more info

Time Out, London — The mighty Meltdown returns to the South Bank, this year curated by jazz legend Ornette Coleman, and featuring Patti Smith, Moby, Yoko Ono, Tony Allen, Yo La Tengo and more more info

PopSugar — Johnny Depp is on the cover of July's Vanity Fair, and inside he opens up about his new movie, Public Enemies, his family, and his private Caribbean island called Little Hall's Pond Cay. He took one of the magazine's writers along for a trip to the a... more info

JamBase — TWO MARVELOUS ALBUMS BY A SEMINAL GROUPTHAT'S STOOD THE TEST OF TIME DESPITE SOME TRULY REGRETTABLE FASHION CHOICES In the soil of our sadness Hear our hearts bell a serenade A faint choir tenderly shaping A lament…a hollow refuge As c... more info

Live Daily — Meg White was married Friday (5/22) in a double ceremony held in the Nashville yard of her ex-husband and musical partner in The White Stripes, Jack White, according to a People report. The drummer and her fiance--guitarist Jackson Smith, the son of ... more info

AngryApe — She married Patti Smith's son more info