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The best world music for spring 2011

4803 days ago
Guardian MusicOur critic's pick of the best jazz, world and folk gigs coming up in May and JuneMarry Waterson and Oliver KnightThis is a busy time for the Waterson/Carthy clan, with Martin Carthy celebrating his 70th birthday at London's South Bank on 14 May, and ... more info

The Unthanks – review

4810 days ago
Guardian MusicHoward Assembly Room, LeedsThe Unthanks' startling folk has all the eerie power of their native Northumbria's coast. Backed by trumpet, drums and a female string section reminiscent of Robert Kirby's work with Nick Drake, Adrian McNally's ghostly pia... more info

Tenney: Spectrum Pieces – review

4815 days ago
Guardian MusicBarton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age ... more info

London Sinfonietta/Adès – review

4850 days ago
Guardian MusicCity Halls, GlasgowAt its premiere, Thomas Adès's In Seven Days was hailed as a sign the composer might be mellowing in middle age. True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's pa... more info

Princeton – “To The Alps”

4850 days ago
StereogumPrinceton’s “To The Alps” sounds like a song called “To The Alps” by a band called Princeton: It’s smooth, classy pop you’d imagine listening to while thawing out in front of a ski lodge fireplace. Sure, the group’s named after the ch... more info

James Blake, Pantha du Prince, Oneohtrix Point Never, The Field, Tim Exile, and More to Play 10th Annual Ether Festival

4857 days ago
XLR8RThis Spring, London's Southbank Center will embark on its 10th year of hosting the always-innovative Ether festival, cramming loads of audio, visual, and other culturally relevant experiences into over a month-long stretch of concerts, exhibitio... more info

The Rite of Spring: still crazy after all these years

4864 days ago
Guardian MusicThe Rite of Spring was so challenging it famously caused a riot at its premiere. Nearly a century on, it's still inspiring innovation – this time Avatar-styleIn 2007, when we programmed Klaus Obermaier's 3D digital version of Stravinsky's The Rite ... more info

2/1/11 Broadcast

4865 days ago
Muzjiks Playlist1. Gemmy: Supligen2. Led Zeppelin: Going to California3. James Blake: Unluck4. Wilco: Wishful Thinking5. EarlWolf: Orange Juice6. Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint7. Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians8. Squarepusher/AFX: Freeman Hardy &... more info

Holland's No.1 Alt Rock band De Staat - AMAZING NEW VIDEO + ALBUM & TOUR NEWS

4876 days ago
Altsounds'MACHINERY' THE NEW ALBUM Released in the UK on 7th March 2011 Holland's critically acclaimed alternative rock band whose unqiue sound is as distinctive as the Dead Weather, Captain Beefhart, Nick Cave, Steve Reich, Queens Of The Stone Age, and ... more info

In praise of … musical reinvention | Editorial

4895 days ago
Guardian MusicThe rewriting of works by other composers is a venerable tradition, going back to at least the time of JosquinA musician called Dominique Leone has lifted a $500 prize for reinventing part of a work by the minimalist composer Steve Reich called 2x5. ... more info

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