Guardian Music — This curiously monikered electro-pop wunderkind makes intelligent dance music influenced by cerebral New York disco types like Talking Heads and LCD SoundsystemHometown: New York.The lineup: Chris Glover (vocals, instruments, production).The backgrou... more info

Guardian Music — This neo-soul hopeful with a foppish fringe croons with the weariness of Bryan Ferry and the numbness of David ByrneHometown: London.The lineup: Oliver Woolf (vocals, instruments).The background: Has Britain produced a credibly suave, urbane lounge-l... more info

Guardian Music — Odyssey Arena, BelfastThese 80s revivals are indeed good for something, other than the pockets of ageing don't-you-know-who-I-used-to-be stars: they're good for a sense of perspective. Much as our grandparents' generation looked back to an imagined t... more info

My Old Kentucky — It has been selling quickly, so hopefully you already know that MyOldKentuckyBlog.com has teamed up with The Indianapolis Museum of Art and Asthmatic Kitty Records for a special evening of music and film at The Toby Theater on November 1st.Performanc... more info

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Stereogum — David Byrne's still going strong. The forthcoming 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition of Stop Making Sense reminds you he's been around longer than you. Talking Heads were clearly more than Byrne, but he's often at the forefront of the action in the ... more info

Live Daily — What do you do when you're on a break from working with the most innovative band in the world, a band that knocked the music industry on its backside with a pay-what-you want release and then went on to top the charts the traditional way? If you're T... more info

All About Jazz — Trumpet player, producer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and singer-songwriter Michael Leonhart and his band "the Avramina 7" are pleased to announce their monthly residency at New York’s Joe’s Pub, beginning Wednesday, October... more info

LargeHeartedBoy — The Boston Phoenix interviews Jane Goodall about her new book, Hope for Animals and Their World. In the book, you introduce us to Old Blue, the last-remaining female South Pacific black robin who “saved” her species. The researcher who st... more info

Guardian Music — Composer Michael Nyman and singer David McAlmont have joined forces – plundering news stories for their new albumWe're in the front room of Michael Nyman's eccentrically furnished Georgian townhouse in Islington. Nyman and his latest collabora... more info