Those of you looking forward to the first performances of Richard Barrett’s Mesopotamia in Huddersfield (28th November; broadcast live on BBC Radio 3) and London (3rd December) might want to listen to this interesting podcast interview with Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

I've gotten some pushback for my "Left behind" posts (here, here, and here). (Quite apart from two people on Twitter -- Danny Felsenfeld most amusingly -- who thought I might be playing off the Christian novels about the Rapture. OK,...

Iconic R&B group Sade has a new album, Soldier of Love, prepped for release next year. The band, which features vocalist Sade Adu, is best known for such hit albums as 1985’s Diamond Life, 1992’s Love Deluxe and 2000’s Lover’s Rock. According to Sony labelmate Maxwell, the album is...

My review of new music::new Ireland 2, a concert given at King’s Place a week or so ago, is up now on Musical Pointers: The second of two autumn concerts organised by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland, brought representatives of Ireland’s more lyrical streams of composition to King’s Place. The performers on this occasion were Iona [...]

By Colin Holter The Minnesota Orchestra is already sticking its neck out in such an admirable and valiant fashion that it seems unfair to ask them for more, but here's an idea...

Susan Boyle’s debut album, I Dreamed A Dream, may oust the Arctic Monkeys’ Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not as the fastest-selling U.K. debut in history. Boyle sold 130,000 copies of her album during its first day of release, while Arctic Monkeys moved over 360,000 during their album’s...

This comes from Michael Gilliland, whom I've met on Twitter. I asked him to tell me more about something he tweeted, and this e-mail was the result. I'm copying it here with his permission, of course. You'll see that he...

I totally slept on Alphabeat’s newest single when it came out last month. You might have too. Well, we should both wake up because “The Spell” is a total jam. It trades out the Eighties worship of the first album (and the amazingly good singles “Fascination” and “10,000 Nights”) for a much slicker...

We come together as a society of people who are excited to make "living" musics by bringing time, energy, money, and attention to the importance of our cultural identities encapsulates the importance of looking beyond oneself.