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

Guardian Music — Landestheater & Bruckner O Linz/Davies (Orange Mountain Music, two CDs)In 2009, Linz was one of the European capitals of culture, and among the specially commissioned events were the premieres of two significant music-theatre works. One was Michel v... more info

Guardian Music — Opera novice Mike Figgis is taking charge of Lucrezia Borgia at the ENO. Trouser parts and Renaissance porn were part of a steep learning curveMike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production ... more info

The Telegraph — World famous composer appears at Hay Festival Cartagena this month. more info

Totally Fuzzy — Record Fiend said... Casey Bill Weldon - The Hawaiian Guitar Wizard 1935-1938 (one-of-a-kind lap-style steel blues guitarist whose recordings included elements of jazz, western swing, and pop music...24 of his best sides w/accompaniment by Big Bill B... more info