Guardian Music — Alan Greenspan was at the wheel, apparently asleep, when the US economy drove off a cliff. Why on earth is he still lionised?The Brookings Institution stands alongside Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, among the nation's elite intellectual institutions. ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Milton Babbitt, an influential composer, theorist and teacher who wrote music that was intensely rational and for many listeners impenetrably abstruse, died on Saturday. He was 94 and lived in Princeton, N.J. Paul Lansky, a composer who studied with ... more info

ContactMusic — Composer MILTON BABBITT has died, aged 94.The Princeton University-educated musician passed away at the revered university's hospital in New Jersey on Saturday (29Jan11). The cause of death is not immediately known. Babbitt is best known for his comp... more info

Guardian Music — Avant-garde American composer who championed electronic musicMilton Babbitt, who has died aged 94, was one of the most eminent, and controversial, American composers of the 20th century. Deeply influenced by the 12-tone music of Arnold Schoenberg, wh... more info

Here Comes The Flood — LivePhish is offering another freebie. It's an incomplete show by Trey Anastasio and the Scorchio Quartet recorded at at Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ - 2010/11/18. Big Red performed solo stuff and a few Phish songs.... more info

Guardian Music — Rapper Jay-Z is talking about his new book with Princeton professor Cornel West. Hadley Freeman is there and live-blogging6.47pm / 11.47pm: Wonder if he'll talk about Big Pimpin'. He recently gave an interview saying he was ashamed of the lyrics and,... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Sam Erickson The Trey Anastasio Band performed at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, GA on February 27 this year. A new live album called TAB at the Tab captures about half of the show, focusing on the second set. Two of the songs also made the track... more info

AOL Music — Henry Velandia is married to a U.S. citizen, but he might be deported anyway. That's because the Venezuelan-born salsa teacher's legal same-sex marriage in Connecticut isn't recognized by the federal government. So his husband -- Josh Vandiver, a Pri... more info

Totally Fuzzy — The Incredible Global Warming Scam Gets Hit Again For the scientifically adept and honest people global warming is a huge embarrassment. Not only have the main base perpetrators been caught but also the institutions that house their activities have... more info

Time — Princeton professor Sean Wilentz has forgone his usual subjects -- the historian has written books such as The Age of Reagan and The Rise of American Democracy -- to focus instead on something entirely different: Bob Dylan. more info