Guardian Music — Ballet Nacional De Cuba: Magia De La Danza, LondonThe Cuban's second Coliseum programme is shamelessly designed to show off the depth of talent across the company ranks. Magia De La Danza brings together extracts from seven of their most enduring wor... more info

Nialler9 — Dublin Guitar Quartet will be performing a special once-off Philip Glass – The Quartets concert in St. Ann’s Church, Dawson’s Street on the 17th of April. They will be performing their own transcriptions of the legendary composer Philip Glass... more info

Pitchfork — Photos by Tim Kiernan; Above: The xx Last year, at the first Big Ears music festival in Knoxville, Tenn., Jon Hassell headlined the opening Friday night at the Bijou Theatre, then the event's largest venue. Despite two balconies and the twin overhead... more info

Guardian Music — Influenced by a mix of Rachmaninoff and Daft Punk, Bright Eyes and Beethoven, these 11 classically-trained musicians could have sounded messy — and sometimes they do. But it's an intriguing messHometown: New York.The lineup: Emanuel Ayvas (lea... more info

NME.COM - Reviews Blog — Imagine a landscape piece of A4 paper. At one end there is a picture of Tony Allen, Fela Kuti’s drummer and Afrobeat pioneer and at the other end of the sheet is Robert Smith of The Cure. Strands of Fat Bob’s back-combed barnet are stretched acro... more info

Spinner.com — Spring Tigers may be the hottest new pop-rock band coming out of Athens, GA. Not bad for a band that formed four days before their first gig, a show that occurred merely two years ago. Since then Spring Tigers have accomplished quite a lot in a short... more info

Guardian Music — Minimalism, jazz, folk, classical – it all seemed impenetrable when I was hooked on the three-minute pop songArt is long, life is short; but not so short that you have to spend it cramming in culture. You can afford to take your time. Only rec... more info

The Mirror — Tragic former Playboy centrefold Anna Nicole Smith's life is to be turned into an opera, it was announced today. The production - which has been co-written by one of the creators of Jerry Springer: The Opera - will be staged at one of the UK's most v... more info

Sky News — If Kathryn Bigelow wins the Oscar for best director tonight, she will be the first woman ever to do so - and is only the fourth even to be nominated. more info

Pitchfork — Before there was Band of Horses, there was Carissa's Wierd, a folk-pop collective co-founded by ex-BoH member Mat Brooke (of Grand Archives) and Jenn Ghetto, and featuring BoH leader Ben Bridwell and former BoH drummer Sera Cahoone. The Seattle group... more info