Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, LondonRelativity: the opera? It's been done. Philip Glass put Einstein on a beach, and a German opera, C – the speed of light (2005), swirled us around multimedia universes to... more info

Altsounds — There's no point in trying to unearth an obvious “single” in Other Lives' second album, Tamer Animals. Here's a better idea instead: succumb. Let every last song wash over you like proper long players once did, from the swift stri... more info

Guardian Music — Barton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dr. Acid said... Frank Zappa - Chunga’s Revenge (1970) Santana - Abraxas (1970) Led Zeppelin - II (1969) http://smusiverse.blogspot.com thanks fuzzy! jazzlover said... Toto Blanke - Spider's Dance (1975) http://jazzarchives.blogspot.com W said...... more info

CNN Showbiz — When the Flaming Lips took the stage toward the end of the annual Tibet House benefit show at Carnegie Hall last night, there were none of the mirror balls or laser beams that typically end a Lips show -- but the band had a different surprise in stor... more info

Guardian Music — We've only heard it once, but Radiohead's The King of Limbs hardly sounds like a band breaking new groundRadiohead's release schedule is not, you imagine, geared towards helping music critics. Minimal warnings, last-minute changes of plan and confusi... more info

Impose Magazine — It will be harder to explain what cold wave is right now in 2011 if this Cold Cave track is the direction of their sophomore album. Does cold wave get this big and monumental? Does it have Philip Glass hooks? At least Robert Smith still seems to be w... more info

The Telegraph — Hay Festival Cartagena Day Two: Philip Glass tells Peter Florence, Hay's founder, that still has "a list of pieces I need to write". more info

The Telegraph — Day Two and Philip Glass is in conversation with Peter Florence, Hay's founder, at the beautiful Teatro Heredia, here in Cartagena de Indias. more info

Guardian Music — Energetic founder of the pioneering experimental theatre club La MaMaThe major impetus and example for much of our first fringe and alternative theatre 50 years ago came from New York, specifically a small group of off-off-Broadway and Greenwich Vi... more info