Guardian Music — Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments belowOpening this weekTheatreWah! Wah! GirlsBritish musical meets Bollywood in... more info

Mercury News, California — Pianist Kirill Gerstein, cellist Matt Haimovitz and Kronos Quartet production designer Larry Neff talk about their adventures on the digital cutting edge and where they may lead. more info

Guardian Music — (Buda/Discovery)With his Ethiopiques series, producer Francis Falceto transformed western ideas about African music by rereleasing classic recordings from the late 60s and early 70s, when Addis was transformed by musicians mixing local styles with US... more info

Guardian Music — Barbican Hall, LondonInitially performed in San Francisco on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Kronos Quartet's Awakening concert was recreated in New York last year for the 10th anniversary. In many respects a typical Kronos enterprise,... more info

Guardian Music — Take a look at the gigs our writers will be reviewing this week, and tell us about live music you've seen recentlyEach week we publish a list of concerts our writers will be covering in the next few days, and we invite you to tell us about the shows ... more info

Guardian Music — From India to Iraq, Sesame Street to outer space, the Kronos Quartet make music everywhere. They talk to Tom ServiceThey are the only musicians to have both gone into space and appeared on Sesame Street. All right, the Kronos Quartet didn't actually... more info

Guardian Music — The quartet perform the Alap (opening section) from Raga Mishra Bhairavi by Ram Narayan (arr. Kronos, transc. Ljova). Hank Dutt is the violist, the performance was at the Barbican's Ramadan Nights Festival in London on 26 September, 2008. more info

Guardian Music — The quartet perform Ramallah Underground's Tashweesh, (arranged by the Kronos & J. Garchik), live at the Barbican's Ramadan Nights Festival, September 26, 2008 more info

Stereogum — Last month, we reported on the existence of Chimes Of Freedom, Amnesty International’s massive and mind-boggling new Bob Dylan tribute compilation. The album includes four CDs and 75 covers, and its list of contributors is wide enough to include th... more info

Mercury News, California — The Kronos Quartet considers the attacks of Sept. 11. more info