Guardian Music — Grilled cheese sandwiches, diamond-encrusted shoes and several false starts: Alison Krauss tells Alfred Hickling about the genesis of her latest album'If you want to play old-time music, you've got to pay attention to your right hand ..." and Alison ... more info

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Mercury News, California — Young Cuban jazz pianist Alfredo Rodriguez will visit San Francisco and Santa Cruz later this week. more info

ContactMusic — Quincy Jones' actress daughter Rashida Jones has revealed she was in the running to play the lead in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! - until Nicole Kidman expressed interest in the musical role. The TV star admits she auditioned for the role of Satin... more info

E! Online — Rashida Jones is the perfect catch. She's beautiful, talented, smart (she went to Harvard, people!) and her parents are music maestro Quincy Jones and model turned actress Peggy... more info

Guardian Music — These Sheffield siblings eschew the synth-pop of their native city in favour of folk-tinged ballads with a soft but sinister edgeHometown: Sheffield.The lineup: Leigh Greenwood (vocals) and Adam Greenwood (guitar).The background: Because of the Human... more info

Impose Magazine — 11 Quincy Jones Some of you may have heard of this man. It's not especially daring to choose the producer with the most Grammy awards in music history, but I couldn’t ignore him. If Quincy Jones were glitter, he’d have been stuck to countless oth... more info

USA Today Music — President Obama honored 20 artists, scholars and writers from James Taylor to Quincy Jones, from Philip Roth to Joyce Carol Oates in a salute ... more info

ContactMusic — Hollywood star Meryl Streep and singer-songwriter James Taylor have been selected to receive the U. S. government's highest arts honour by President Barack Obama. Sophie's Choice star Streep and Grammy winner Taylor will be joined by famed m... more info

ContactMusic — Superproducer MARK RONSON is engaged to marry French model JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME.A representative for Ronson confirms to UsMagazine.com that the DJ is planning a trip down the aisle with the brunette beauty, who he has been dating since March 2009. T... more info