Guardian Music — The Grammy winner faces a struggle to balance her schedule as a musician with her responsibilities as Peru's culture ministerIt is unusual for an artist to enter Peru's rough-and-tumble world of politics. It is even rarer for a black Peruvian to ente... more info

Guardian Music — He's a 23-year-old prodigy channelling Stevie Wonder, Yes and 10cc. The question, with this artist, is 'why not?'Hometown: New Jersey.The lineup: Steve Marion (instruments).The background: Here's a little curio – a mostly non-vocal album on David B... more info

DrownedInSound — In a rare interview, DiS managed to secure half an hour in the presence of Anthony Gonzalez, the founder member and brainchild behind M83. As elegant and charming offstage as on, no stones were left unturned as collaborations, back catalogues, David ... more info

Guardian Music — Academy, Manchester"This is another one of those, er, singalongs," says Beirut's Zach Condon, sounding slightly embarrassed by what's going on around him. Once again, the cavernous Academy erupts into a choir of audience voices, with every second han... more info

Guardian Music — This highly touted four-piece have pretensions to Talking Heads' funk-rock mantle – but fail to burn down the houseHometown: London.The lineup: Miles Haughton (vocals, guitar), Marcus Haughton (vocals, guitar), Louis Bhose (bass) and Oscar Manthorp... more info

Stereogum — David Byrne made a bunch of screenshots of fake iPhone apps for an exhibit titled “Social Media,” showing at the Pace Gallery on West 25th Street from 9/16 – 10/15 (via BoingBoing). I just made a fake app to check out David Byrne’s fake apps ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — Talking Heads founder David Byrne is perpetually up to something cool. If he's not singing backing vocals on Arcade Fire records or writing his New York Times column about cycling (seriously), he's creating wry and topical art. His latest offering is... more info

Totally Fuzzy — In 1987, Alexander Balanescu left the Arditti Quartet to form his own Balanescu Quartet, which has gone on to acquire a reputation as one of the world’s leading contemporary music groups. Collaborators have included Michael Nyman, Gavin Bryars, Or... more info

Guardian Music — (Atlantic)There's no gang involved here, just university dropout Max McElligott, who quit his studies in London to make a go of his knack for orchestral pop. While there's no doubting his ability, particularly his talent for melody and ease with ela... more info

Stereogum — As Videogum pointed out, Sean Penn has a new movie. What Gabe didn’t mention is This Must Be The Place is a mumblecore remake of Edward Scissorhands featuring new original music by David Byrne. NJ Underground notes the film also includes Arcade Fir... more info