NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Imagine a landscape piece of A4 paper. At one end there is a picture of Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer and Afrobeat pioneer and at the other end of the sheet is Robert Smith of The Cure. Strands of Fat Bob’s back-combed barnet are stretched acro... more info

Guardian Music — Minimalism, jazz, folk, classical – it all seemed impenetrable when I was hooked on the three-minute pop songArt is long, life is short; but not so short that you have to spend it cramming in culture. You can afford to take your time. Only rec... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe percussionist Colin Currie formed the group that bears his name specifically to perform the ­music of Steve Reich, whom he ­describes as a "guru" to all percus- sionists. At the core of the repertory for any ... more info

Guardian Music — Loop Festival, LondonPianist Kit Downes, the young Royal Academy graduate who first emerged with the much-acclaimed band Empirical, is one of the influential new British jazz artists on London's Loop Collective's programme. Downes was taught by forme... more info

Guardian Music — Roundhouse, LondonMuhly, who shared conducting duties with Nicholas Collon, had planned the programme, framing four of his own works with pieces by the two composers who perhaps have influenced him more than any others: Philip Glass (the solo-piano H... more info

Rolling Stone — Ever wondered what’s on David Bowie’s iPod? Of course you have. And now thanks to The Guardian, we have a sampling of the Thin White Duke’s recent most-played tracks: Chinese folk music, old school crooners and Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Fli... more info

Stereogum — Bowie selected the songs he listened to most in the last month, including tracks by Arthur Russell, GY!BE, Scritti Politti, Steve Reich, Amadou & Mariam, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and a some Chinese folk music. The man has taste (via PopCandy). more info

Live Daily — Peter Gabriel [ tickets ] will offer North American fans a glimpse of his new orchestral-only covers album, "Scratch My Back," in select cities this spring. The singer/songwriter has lined up dates in three locations, kicking off April 28 in Montr... more info

Guardian Music — He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading nextWhen influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s –... more info

Mercury News, California — Written between 1970 and 2009, the selections represented this composer's abiding preoccupation with rhythmic structures and the timbrel possibilities of percussion instruments. The So Percussion musicians '” Eric Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinsk... more info