XLR8R — Albums like R Plus Seven are dangerous. It's the kind of record that is unexpectedly original enough to enthrall and disrupt listeners in equal measure. Had it come from more obscure origins, it could very well have been deemed "difficult" and l... more info

Nialler9 — Orlando Fitzgerald aka Orquesta is currently in his last days of participating in the Red Bull Music Academy (read my piece on NYC’s edition) which wraps up this weekend for another year. Fitzgerald has been lucky enough to sit in on talks with Phi... more info

DrownedInSound — Nico Muhly curates the Barbican’s May marathon of music next weekend, including a line-up featuring Villagers, Philip Glass, Glen Hansard (The Frames) and Bang on a Can. Win tickets... Read the full story on DrownedinSound.com more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — The self-titled debut from Thurston Moore's new band is a mixture of pointedly dissonant work and goofy fun.Thurston Moore's new band Chelsea Light Moving is named after the avant-garde composer Philip Glass' pre-fame moving company, and that's a pre... more info

DrownedInSound — ko.yaa.nis.katsi (from the Hopi language), n. 1. crazy life. 2. life in turmoil. 3. life disintegrating. 4. life out of balance. 5. a state of life that calls for another way of living. This definition appears emblazoned across the screen above the... more info

Consequence of Sound — Rahzel and Philip Glass, too. more info

Guardian Music — Some of his later music makes my toes curl, but there's no denying the huge importance of Glass's compositions with their unique combination of experimentalism and listener-friendlinessI'm trying, I really am. But I can't hear anything in Philip Glas... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Chris Ware talks to the National Post about his new comics collection, Building Stories. Comics themselves, as a medium, are "an imperfect generalized system to try to get at specifics," and yet, he allows, "it seems to work pretty well."... more info

Guardian Music — High culture gets a horror-genre overhaul in Peter Duggan's take on the 1979 collaboration between artist Sol LeWitt and composer Philip Glass more info

Guardian Music — Composer who scored nearly every Merchant Ivory film from The Europeans onwards and was an integral part of the brandThe Guinness Book of Records notes that the 44-year collaboration between the Indian producer Ismail Merchant and the American direct... more info