Brooklyn Vegan — Steve Reich will celebrate his 75th birthday with a weekend of events in his honor. The festivities start on April 30th at Carnegie Hall, as Steve Reich will host NYC premieres of three new works, WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet,... more info

Guardian Music — Spaghetti Western Orchestra to use rubber gloves and coat hangers to perform extracts from Sergio Leone film soundtracksA motley collection of cereal packets, asthma inhalers, rubber gloves, coat hangers and nail clippers will make its debut at the v... more info

Guardian Music — During rehearsals for his next performance, Colin Currie discusses Reich's innovative approach to harmony and rhythmLaurence Topham more info

Guardian Music — Forty years after his death, celebrate the extraordinary brilliance of Stravinsky by exploring beyond the Rite of SpringIgor Stravinsky died 40 years ago today. I find this astonishing – partly because Stravinsky seems to belong to another era: a c... more info

Guardian Music — More than any other jazz guitarist, Metheny has given the instrument as prominent a place as a trumpet or saxophonePat Metheny, the guitar star from Missouri, is one of the most commercially successful instrumentalists in jazz. But while such an achi... more info

Guardian Music — Our 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

Guardian Music — Howard 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

Guardian Music — Barton 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

Guardian Music — City 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

Stereogum — Princeton’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