Brooklyn Vegan — Anand Wilder with Yeasayer at Jones Beach in July (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) The record label David Byrne started in 1988, Luaka Bop, has been curating the club John Zorn started, The Stone, since December 15. If you've been... more info

Guardian Music — Alexis Petridis is joined by Rebecca Nicholson and Dorian Lynskey this week to listen to Leonard Cohen's Show Me the Place; the Congolese rapper Baloji's track which features Konono No1, Karibu Ya Bintou; and J Cole and Trey Songz's Can't Get Enough.... more info

Stereogum — This Must Be The Place is the new movie where Sean Penn, seriously, plays an aging Robert-Smith-lookalike Nazi-hunter rock star. Obviously, we’re all going to watch the shit out of this movie. But if we needed any more reason to get amped, the soun... more info

Guardian Music — Music of refinement and learning, with a bossa nova twistThe many young Japanese in the audience confirmed the interest pianist and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto still prompts. He was idolised in the days of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, an electro-pop t... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Live in Austin, Texas - 2008/09/26 - photo: David Hill The better the singer's voice is, the harder it is to believe what they're saying. So I turn my weaknesses into strengths. David Byrne more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonSt Vincent – aka Annie Clark – doesn't look like the type who's going to leap off the stage and assault people with a dirty great guitar. Looking out from the cover of her first two albums, 2007's prim Marry Me and 200... more info

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