Mercury News, California — The 74-year-old minimalist composer, who performs solo Saturday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, shows no signs of slowing down as he launches a 'new cycle' of creative work. more info

Nialler9 — Chilly Gonzales’ next step after his brilliant Ivory Tower album and movie last year will be The Unspeakable Chilly Gonzales Suite, an all-orchestral rap album out on June 6th with live shows to follow. Accompanied by Hollywood swells, tympani roll... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dustin O'Halloran - Lumière A self-taught pianist from the age of 7, Dustin O’Halloran’s personal histories give us some clue to the thickly-woven tapestries of his music: he has lived in LA (where he studied art at Santa Monica College and f... more info

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Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, LondonRelativity: the opera? It's been done. Philip Glass put Einstein on a beach, and a German opera, C – the speed of light (2005), swirled us around multimedia universes to... more info

Altsounds — There's no point in trying to unearth an obvious “single” in Other Lives' second album, Tamer Animals. Here's a better idea instead: succumb. Let every last song wash over you like proper long players once did, from the swift stri... more info

Guardian Music — Barton Workshop(New World, two CDs)The Huddersfield festival has started to make an occasional feature out of James Tenney's music in recent years, but otherwise the work of this intriguing American composer and theorist, who died in 2006 at the age ... more info

Totally Fuzzy — Dr. Acid said... Frank Zappa - Chunga’s Revenge (1970) Santana - Abraxas (1970) Led Zeppelin - II (1969) http://smusiverse.blogspot.com thanks fuzzy! jazzlover said... Toto Blanke - Spider's Dance (1975) http://jazzarchives.blogspot.com W said...... more info

CNN Showbiz — When the Flaming Lips took the stage toward the end of the annual Tibet House benefit show at Carnegie Hall last night, there were none of the mirror balls or laser beams that typically end a Lips show -- but the band had a different surprise in stor... more info

Guardian Music — We've only heard it once, but Radiohead's The King of Limbs hardly sounds like a band breaking new groundRadiohead's release schedule is not, you imagine, geared towards helping music critics. Minimal warnings, last-minute changes of plan and confusi... more info