Guardian Music — Ninety concerts over eight weeks, thousands of performers and an audience of millions – the Proms begin next Friday. Our critics pick their highlights'Mahler with Dudamel and Nigel Kennedy's unaccompanied Bach'For real Proms atmosphere it's going t... more info

KEXP Seattle — Blue Scholars with KEXP’s Larry Mizell Jr. at 2010 Capitol Hill Block Partyphoto by Steven Dewall Monday, June 13 Tijuana Panthers with Guantanamo Baywatch @ Chop Suey ($5, 8PM, 21+) (buy tickets) Long Beach meets the Northwest. Surf’s up, dude!... more info

The Telegraph — To say that Victoria makes a virtue out of restraint sounds worthy, but to experience it is thrilling. Rating: * * * * * more info

Totally Fuzzy — gibroo said... Almost Ready is a new blog and we invite you to sample Alex Chilton's "Like Flies On Sherbert" http://gibroo.blogspot.com Ekko said... Grynch-The Timeless EP, featuring Blue Scholars. Free & legal! http://www.berkeleyplaceblog.com B... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — “Film School” features The Scholars family (Novakane, and Chris Capalano), brandUn Deshay, and Lungz…with production from Hip-Notic, Slot-A, Mark Byrd, Madd, Jacob Giles, Trabeats, Bigg Unit, and Tony Baines   Agacee – Film School (Mixtape) ... more info

L.A. Times - News — Jane Harman's appointment, made official today, as president and chief executive of the Woodrow Wilson International Center has sparked a scramble to fill a rare open seat in Congress. Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn says she will run. Cali... more info

L.A. Times - News — Democrat Jane Harman, who represents a Los Angeles-area district, is expected to leave Congress to lead the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a congressional source says.U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), a leading congressional voice ... more info

Sky News — An outspoken Pakistani politician assassinated by his bodyguard has been buried as 500 anti-Taliban moderate religious scholars warned anybody who expressed grief over his death could suffer the same fate. more info

Pop Bytes — Plucked fresh from the virgin mind of our golden lady, doth comes this most rapturous of reads: A Shore Thing , from the loquacious plume of Snooki. Yea, from yonder tangelo plum fairy did issue a most wonderous and whimsical tome, one our children... more info

Guardian Music — The Rolling Stone's cigarette played a part in the end of a Phalaenopsis amabilis at the New York Public LibraryIt is not exactly on the scale of trashing a hotel room, but Keith Richards has been blamed for killing an orchid at a library in New York... more info