ContactMusic — Punk icon Patti Smith has been selected to receive Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize. The rocker will share the honour, which is handed out by the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, with the Kronos Quartet. The prize committee which selected.... more info

Topix — Music of Steve Reich Bang on a Can All-Stars and Friends , eighth blackbird, Kronos Quartet, So Percussion Carnegie Hall Saturday, April 30 Better than: The ritual, anniversary replay of news broadcasts from the morning of 9/11. There is no other way... more info

Guardian Music — Our critics pick the season's highlights: From Lady Gaga to Harry Potter, Coppélia to Tony Cragg, this summer has something for allMAY4 FILM The Tree of LifeThe much-delayed fifth feature from director Terrence Malick, snapped up by Icon for UK re... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Matmos with Kronos Quartet last year The Chiara String Quartet and NOW Ensemble come together Friday, May 6 at (Le) Poisson Rouge for a joint album release concert, celebrating two fresh albums from New Amsterdam Records with some... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Something to listen to while you're reading: Santana - Aqua Marine From the album "Marathon", written by Alan Pasqua and Carlos Santana. All the albums below are available for streaming in our SoundStream Player These are all new full album str... more info

Guardian Music — She is the legend who has sung in hundreds of Hindi films, worked with Michael Stipe and Robbie Williams, and been immortalised on a UK No 1 record. Rob Fitzpatrick talks to Asha Bhosle'In the old days all the movie songs were recorded right there on... more info

Guardian Music — (Saregama)Veteran superstar crossover pop, Indian style. Asha Bhosle may now be in her late 70s, but the queen of the Bollywood playback singers is still in remarkably fine voice on an album in which she's joined by the classical singer and sitar pla... more info

Guardian Music — Piau/Lemieux/Quatuor Diotima(Naive)It was only in 1977 that the programme behind Berg's Lyric Suite and its significance to the composer's secret affair with Hanna Fuchs-Robettin came to light, when the composer's own annotated version of the score r... more info

Totally Fuzzy — jeffen said... Obscure punk/pop/garage/rock n' roll compilation that includes a ripping studio take on Hüsker Dü's "Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely" by MRML faves MEGA CITY FOUR: ** V.A. On Another Planet (Black & Noir Records, 1991) ** Les Ma... more info

Guardian Music — Adrian Thomas writes: My introduction to the music of Henryk Górecki (obituary, 13 November) came on a Polish LP of his music that included the orchestral Scontri (Collisions, 1960) and Refren (Refrain, 1965). The strength and originality of his mu... more info