Guardian Music — All Delighted People contains Stevens's first new songs since 2005. Is his self-proclaimed 'existential crisis' now over?Sufjan Stevens has released a surprise new EP, featuring his first set of original songs since 2005. True to form, All Delighted ... more info

ET Online — Barbra Streisand is in store for a big-time tribute during Grammy week next year. Streisand is Musicares' 2011 Person of the Year. She'll be honored at a star-studded dinner in L.A. next February 11. Each year, MusiCares honors a recording ar... more info

All About Jazz — Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Patti Austin is performing at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on the weekend of August 13-14, 2010. Performances are at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. each night. Tickets are $40 and can be ordered online. With 17 solo albums an... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — ""The Capeman," Paul Simon's ill-fated foray into the Broadway musical, was so spectacular and costly a flop that when it closed in 1998 after only 68 performances, it was hard to imagine it could ever have an afterlife. But time... more info

Totally Fuzzy — armeur H said... alicerabbit.blogspot.com another unnecessary blog with music inside. the July's posts • Esplendor Geometrico - EG-1 (1981, cassette) • VA - Luna y Panorama De Los Insectos (1986, cassette, spanish industrial bands) • VA - Night... more info

Guardian Music — AR Rahmen, Staff Benda Bilili, Céu, Nitin Sawhney, Radioclit - file under pop?Staff Benda Bilili, magnificent survivors singing at the top of their voices about a harsh, strange world and the implacable undermining of all that sustains reason and sa... more info

Perez Hilton — Inneresting! Producer Phil Ramone, who was recently honored by Billy Joel and Paul Simon at the Songwriters Hall of Fame dinner, is going to record an album with John Mayer! And get this — they'll be re-creating the sound of Bob Dylan's "Blood on t... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Ice said... Nicola Porpora: Orlando R. Expert, O. Pitarch, B. Haas, J.B. Otero / Real Compania Opera de Camara - 2005 www.classiclibrary Nicola Porpora (1686-1768) Orlando ou le Delire d'apres L'Angelica Componimento Drammatico in Due Parti Librett... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... re-up: V.A. - Let me in (The 22nd BoBW jazz funk compilation) 01. Mo' Better Blues - Wynton Marsalis Trio / 3:40 02. Nothing Serious - Roy Hargrove / 3:58 03. Headache - Stan Getz & Lionel Hampton / 5:06 04. In The Back Of The Car -... more info

Guardian Music — Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy are part of British folk music royalty, and as they release their first album as a mother-and-daughter duo, they talk to Jude RogersIt's a Saturday morning in Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire, and the sun shines thr... more info