All About Jazz — The 15-piece Industrial Jazz Group (IJG), an adventurous big band featuring the music of composer Andrew Durkin, will be touring Southern California this August, with performances on August 19 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and on August 20 at ... more info

ContactMusic — JOHN LYDON has received hate mail after announcing plans to perform in Israel weeks after acts like the PIXIES and ELVIS COSTELLO boycotted the country in protest over its... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... re-up: V.A. - Let me in (The 22nd BoBW jazz funk compilation) 01. Mo' Better Blues - Wynton Marsalis Trio / 3:40 02. Nothing Serious - Roy Hargrove / 3:58 03. Headache - Stan Getz & Lionel Hampton / 5:06 04. In The Back Of The Car -... more info

411 Mania — From The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Guns N' Roses' Appetite for Destruction, and Metallica's Metallica, to Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, and The Velvet Undergound'sThe Velvet Underground and... more info

Scotsman.com — ELVIS COSTELLO & The Sugarcanes **** Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow more info

All About Jazz — Crossover projects in classical music have traditionally been matters of opera singers or big-ticket instrumentalists performing jazz, pop or folk music, usually not as well as the musicians who perform this material full time. But since the late ... more info

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Guardian Music — The American Psycho author's appetite for pop culture ensures his work influences music as much as literatureThere are plenty of novelists out there whose work pulses with the influence of contemporary music, but none use music references quite so ef... more info

New Times Broward-Palm Beach, FL — Some claim that since jettisoning the Police, Sting's music has lost its, well, sting. After all, here's an artist on the front lines of the new-wave rebellion in the late '70s who gradually acquiesced to a mellower template comfortably nestled in ad... more info

MTV.com News — Corinne Bailey Rae, Elvis Costello, Ben Harper also appear at three-day event.By Matt Elias Paul McCartney performs at Hard Rock Calling 2010 Photo: Andy Paradise This past weekend was one of the warmest on record in London, and the hottest... more info