Guardian Music — Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie mix classical, ambient and post-rock sounds to create music with grand (piano) ambitionsHometown: California/Berlin.The lineup: Dustin O'Halloran and Adam Wiltzie.The background: You may have heard that there's a ri... more info

Guardian Music — The American composer has never compromised to fit in with classical music. Instead, it has changed to accommodate himOn Wednesday 10 August, Steve Reich has a 75th birthday concert at the Proms. He's celebrating with Germany's finest new-music group... more info

Guardian Music — It was make-up or break-up time and you refused to walk away like Pretty Woman. Here are your favourite reversals of directionA change of mind, when it comes to pop lyrics, often involves ending a relationship. Or, perhaps, trying to reverse an over-... more info

L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Big Sur's Henry Miller Library has booked an excellent lineup of summer/fall shows including Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky and Philip Glass conducting "Dracula." more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonIt's a tribute to Royal New Zealand Ballet's eclectic, open spirit that, once again, they visit the UK with a programme of work never seen here before.In Plan to A we get a rare British sighting of Jorma Elo, a choreographer based in ... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, London; Royal Festival Hall, LondonNico Muhly, at just 29, is already an impressionist in sound, his warm and sensual orchestral colours shimmering and glowing underneath a clearly Romantic sensibility. He may be today's golden boy but he's... more info

We Like it Lossless! — An email I received today [sorry to those artists I've neglected to post, I have 20 in my inbox waiting to happen]Hey Taylor,We're a small tape label in Chicago called Already Dead Tapes.(http://alreadydeadtapes.wordpress.com/)I'm writing because we ... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonNico Muhly's first opera may have its origins in a true story from Manchester in 2003, but, as presented in Craig Lucas's libretto, Two Boys seems far removed from any kind of hard-edged reality.Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera ... more info

Guardian Music — 'You' is such an insignificant, pale blue dot of a word. Its significance comes from the love that we place upon it, the way that we deal with itMy parents dropped me off at the end of the driveway, and I darted through the warm June night to the do... more info

Topix — It's not the first record to combine a piece of new music with remixes thereof by established electronic artists. more info