Guardian Music — Babe, Terror keeps the Brazilian revolution of sound contemporary by cannibalising No Age, TV On the Radio and Animal CollectiveLast year, a Brazilian artist called Babe, Terror contacted me via email to tell me about his new, self-recorded album. Ra... more info

New York Times — A classical soloist embraces the pop musicians who have special resonances for him. more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Kravitz/FilmMagic When VH1 revealed that Behind the Music was returning with episodes dedicated to Lil Wayne and Scott Weiland, we asked our readers what musicians they thought should get the BTM treatment. Jane’s Addiction, Ryan Adams, Radi... more info

The Culture Of Me — We here around THE CULTURE OF ME were once obsessed with all things relating to Sassy and Dirt magazines.  And while those titles are long gone, the sentiment of how they covered the culture industries has indeed left its mark on writers and cultu... more info

AllHipHop — VH1 has announced it will revive its popular Behind the Music series, with 10 new episodes being produced, including an episode on rappers MC Lyte Kanye West and Lil Wayne.   The rappers are featured along side a number of popular artists, includin... more info

NME — A jet-lagged Amanda Palmer played to a packed-out crowd in the yard of the Radio Room venue at 1.35pm (CST) today (March 18th) at the South By Southwest festival in Austin. more info

Ryan's Smashing Life — In Austin this week for SxSW: Sweden's talented song-writer Kristoffer Ragnstam has a new album in time for its songs to rain down upon indie rock audiences at South-by-Southwest this week. "Wrong Side of the Room" (in fine record stores and online ... more info

Idolator — It may seem silly to say that we "love" music, just the kind of overstatement that diminishes or confuses actual, like, love for human beings that we have mutual relationships with. But such love ain't so special, at least not if a new study is to ... more info

NME - The Daily Download — Is it just us or is there a lot of love in the room for Grizzly Bear right now? Blog darlings (so much so that even lo-quality MP3s are flying across the ether like comets on fire), beloved by Radiohead and TVOTR (with both of whom they toured last ... more info

Guardian Music — Live performances are now worth more than recorded music for the first time in British music industry history, according to the Performing Rights SocietyThe UK live music industry collects more revenue than recorded music, according to the chief econ... more info