LargeHeartedBoy — Vogue profiled Joan Didion. NPR Music shared a conversation between Philip Glass and Devonte Hynes. Dave Eggers talked to Smithsonian about his forthcoming book Ungrateful Mammals. Drowned in Sound interviewed the Horrors' Faris Badwan. Hazlitt inter... more info

Stereogum — It's a big morning for Dev Hynes videos on the internet! The Blood Orange mastermind has already starred in Charlotte Gainsbourg's lovely "Deadly Valentine" video. And now we also get to see him sitting down with the legendary minimalist composer Phi... more info

Stereogum — Later this fall, almost exactly a year after Leonard Cohen's death, a strange and intriguing group of artists will gather at Montreal's Bell Centre to pay tribute to the man. The list of artists on the bill is a somewhat strange but intriguing one, a... more info

New York Times — Jaap van Zweden, the next music director, opens the season with contemporary music and Mahler. more info

New York Times — Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, a new “Tosca,” a Philip Glass residency and an operatic “Brokeback Mountain” are among the highlights. more info

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New York Times — The Icelandic musician, who is making his New York recital debut at the Mostly Mozart Festival this weekend, spoke about his homeland and composers. more info

Chicago Tribune — Contemporary operas about ordinary people crushed by powerful forces they are helpless to control mark another venturesome festival season of the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Both "The Grapes of Wrath," by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie, and "The ... more info

Obscure Sound — Emme is an act from Austin, Texas comprised of vocalist Sowmya Somanath and beatmaker Walter Nichols. Somanath’s vocals are entirely captivating, lush and caressing in allowing the atmospheric beats to flow fully. On “Wander”, an orchestral-lik... more info

New York Times — The hourlong work has no plot, characters or libretto, but features six singers, a violin and a viola. Can a composer still build an opera with them? more info