Guardian Music — More than any other jazz guitarist, Metheny has given the instrument as prominent a place as a trumpet or saxophonePat Metheny, the guitar star from Missouri, is one of the most commercially successful instrumentalists in jazz. But while such an achi... more info

Guardian Music — Our critic's pick of the best jazz, world and folk gigs coming up in May and JuneMarry Waterson and Oliver KnightThis is a busy time for the Waterson/Carthy clan, with Martin Carthy celebrating his 70th birthday at London's South Bank on 14 May, and ... more info

Guardian Music — Howard Assembly Room, LeedsThe Unthanks' startling folk has all the eerie power of their native Northumbria's coast. Backed by trumpet, drums and a female string section reminiscent of Robert Kirby's work with Nick Drake, Adrian McNally's ghostly pia... 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

Guardian Music — City Halls, GlasgowAt its premiere, Thomas Adès's In Seven Days was hailed as a sign the composer might be mellowing in middle age. True, the "video ballet", a piano concerto that nominally tells the creation myth with abstract images by Adès's pa... more info

Stereogum — Princeton’s “To The Alps” sounds like a song called “To The Alps” by a band called Princeton: It’s smooth, classy pop you’d imagine listening to while thawing out in front of a ski lodge fireplace. Sure, the group’s named after the ch... more info

XLR8R — This Spring, London's Southbank Center will embark on its 10th year of hosting the always-innovative Ether festival, cramming loads of audio, visual, and other culturally relevant experiences into over a month-long stretch of concerts, exhibitio... more info

Guardian Music — The Rite of Spring was so challenging it famously caused a riot at its premiere. Nearly a century on, it's still inspiring innovation – this time Avatar-styleIn 2007, when we programmed Klaus Obermaier's 3D digital version of Stravinsky's The Rite ... more info

Muzjiks — Playlist1. Gemmy: Supligen2. Led Zeppelin: Going to California3. James Blake: Unluck4. Wilco: Wishful Thinking5. EarlWolf: Orange Juice6. Steve Reich: Electric Counterpoint7. Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians8. Squarepusher/AFX: Freeman Hardy &... more info

Altsounds — 'MACHINERY' THE NEW ALBUM Released in the UK on 7th March 2011 Holland's critically acclaimed alternative rock band whose unqiue sound is as distinctive as the Dead Weather, Captain Beefhart, Nick Cave, Steve Reich, Queens Of The Stone Age, and ... more info