Guardian Music — 'The first review I got said: "We should think this person is talented, but we don't." I stayed in bed for two days'What was the first piece of music that inspired you?Brahms's String Sextet in B flat major. I was 12, and doing a chamber music camp ... more info

Pitchfork — WHAT: Blaze FestivalWHEN: June 19 - July 31WHERE: London, EnglandWHO: The Knife's Tomorrow in a Year, Dirty Projectors performing The Getty Address, Shearwater, Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Caetano Veloso, Lee "Scratch Perry, Toots and the Maytals... more info

Guardian Music — US critic and champion of new composersIn the US, support for promising new composers and performers has always been thin on the ground. Alan Rich, who has died aged 85, was one of the small band of music reviewers engaged not merely in pontificating... more info

Guardian Music — Andres/Kaplan(Nonesuch)Timothy Andres is the latest young composer (born in 1985) to burst on to the new-music scene from New York, trailing garlands of praise in his wake. Trained at the Juilliard School and Yale University, Andres is unquestionably... more info

Totally Fuzzy — YoungMossTongue said... BUSH TETRAS - Rituals GITHEAD - Headgit Fuzzy love... XXX http://youngmosstongue.blogspot.com Gumshoe said... "Oh Ah Ee" by Hannis Brown ... One of the most original tracks I've heard in ages, experimental and fluid. listen/d... more info

Guardian Music — Brighton festivalThough not among the bespoke events that guest artistic director Brian Eno has endorsed at this year's Brighton festival, the appearances by the Philip Glass Ensemble chimed nicely with Eno's own career and musical preoccupations. Gl... more info

Totally Fuzzy — a r n e l said... Jazzanova (7 albums) The Temptations John Legend Monty Alexander Alela Diane Charles Bukowski http://bestfbothworlds.blogspot.com ...and: V.A. - The Very Best of Jazz Funk [2CD] music499 said... Iron & Wine - The Creek Drank the C... more info

Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonThere would be no music without repetition. No note, theme or rhythm can be itself until it has been repeated. But this truth should not be an excuse for repetitiveness. Repetitiveness is the hallmark of Philip Glass's music, and h... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonMarin Alsop's latest concert with the London Philharmonic prefaced Górecki's Third Symphony with UK premieres of works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass. Turnage's Texan Tenebrae draws its material from Anna Nicol... more info

The Telegraph — The London Philharmonic offered a rare treat with new works by Mark-Anthony Turnage and Philip Glass. Rating: * * * * more info