Said the Gramophone — Starting this Wednesday is Pop Montreal, one of the finest music & arts festivals in all the world, at least if you like the things we do. It is wild and woolly, joyously diverse, deep and wide and rich and poor and set in the heart of this great c... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonAfter opening the LSO's season with Debussy and Ravel, Valery Gergiev continued his exploration of the French repertoire with Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, a choice that will doubtless be viewed as contentious in some quarters. Th... more info

Said the Gramophone — Vic Chesnutt - "Flirted With You All My Life". Crisp like an apple, smelling of the cellar. Chesnutt has again recruited some of Montreal's finest, members of Silver Mt. Zion who put aside their scowls and furies for at least four minutes and forty... more info

XLR8R — Heralded as ground-breaking in their time, as well as early godfathers of Krautrock, Hamburg-based trio Faust have paved the way for many artists and producers since their 1969 inception. Now, the band will be hitting North American pavement starting... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Teenage Jesus & the Jerks @ KF in 2008 (more by Lori Baily) WFMU will be putting on a three-day Brooklyn festival at the Music Hall of Williamsburg from October 1st-3rd. Its Thursday and Saturday night bills will be headlined... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — "Formed 1969 in Hamburg, Germany and considered the inventors of "Kraut Rock", iconoclasts extraordinaire Faust are key figures in 20th Century music. In the early 70's, along with Can and Kraftwerk, they re-invented pop music as a specifically Europ... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — (poster design via Henry Owings) Breaking news: for three nights October 1st, 2nd, and 3rd WFMU Fest takes over the Music Hall of Williamsburg for our very first ever big-scale multi-day curated concert event. Hot damn. Check out this lineup:... more info

BBC News - UK — The actress behind a one woman show of Faust said she fears her lip-synching might have been lost in translation. more info

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Mercury News, California — Gounod's "Faust" is an embarrassment of riches, full of vocal and orchestral delights at every turn, with that famous "Jewel Song" for fluttery, hyperactive soprano being but one glittering example out of many. more info