Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonWith London residencies at Kings Place and LSO St Luke's, the Aurora Orchestra, founded six years ago, is riding high, and after their latest concert it is easy to understand why. The players are young and dexterous; enthusiasm and... more info

Guardian Music — (ACT)Trumpeter and composer Verneri Pohjola has been a star in his native Finland since the early noughties, and this affecting and atmospheric big-band session was released there two years ago and subsequently adopted by German label ACT. Pohjola is... more info

Detroit Free Press — THURSDAY In a genre traditionally dominated by men, the blues guitarist born Aurora Block has been a longtime fixture on the scene, plying a style that straddles her Greenwich Village roots and the sound of the Mississippi delta. 8 p.m., the Ark, 316... more info

Metalsucks — Dana Carvey host Saturday Night Live this week, and a good portion of the show was a nostalgia-fest devoted to reminding us once upon a time, the dude was a big star. Luckily, the sketch devoted to the return of the most metal public access show in A... more info

Mercury News, California — In 'Collapse,' a new play at the Aurora Theatre, up and coming playwright Allison Moore explores the need for human control in a time of chaos. more info

Altsounds — PÃ¥l Moddi Knutsen comes from the remote and blustery northern Norwegian island of Senja, in the bipolar land of the summer Midnight Sun and winters of total darkness (only lit up by the Aurora Borealis). With a borrowed accordion and a sea... more info

Mercury News, California — Aldo Billingslea, now performing 'Collapse' at Berkeley's Aurora Theatre, is a most valuable player in Bay Area theater. more info

Altsounds — PÃ¥l Moddi Knutsen comes from the remote and blustery northern Norwegian island of Senja, in the bipolar land of the summer Midnight Sun and winters of total darkness (only lit up by the Aurora Borealis). With a borrowed accordion and a sea-blu... more info

Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonMozart, Mozart everywhere. Midway through Radio 3's 12-day marathon, the station again teamed up with Kings Place, where the year-long Mozart Unwrapped festival is just getting going. And if the live broadcast offered Mozart in you... more info

Guardian Music — (Maya)The guiding spirits of Agustí Fernández, the Barcelona pianist, include the iconoclastic Cecil Taylor for piano improv, and Iannis Xenakis (with whom he briefly studied) for composition. But this combined studio recording and New York live g... more info